Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 462 The future without space travel is bleak

dune.

Zhang Zhong read the results in English, and many readers in non-English-speaking countries have not yet figured out what is going on.

As the host, Hu Gang had already slapped the table with both palms.

"Dune! The winning work of the Sixth Nebula Award for Excellent Novel in 2021 is "Dune". The Chinese author Zhang Zhong made another success. At the same time, he also became the fifth author in history to win two awards at the same Nebula Award. The four before him are Clark and Herbert...The names of these four people have already been engraved in the annals of science fiction, and we have enough reasons to believe that Zhang Zhong will also be famous in history. Congratulations to Zhang Zhong, Congratulations to "Dune", tonight's Nebula Award belongs to Zhang Zhong, belongs to Huaxia, and belongs to all readers who love Zhang Zhong's works!"

The award speech of the Nebula Awards was being played, and Zhang Zhong was standing on the stage listening to the speech. He wanted to see how the award would be presented later. Did he hand it to his right hand from left to right?

According to the rules, what Hu Gang has to do at this time is to roughly translate the award speech to the audience, but he is so excited that he has no way to pay attention to the award speech.

After shouting at top speed just now, he didn't stop, but continued, "At the beginning of last year, when Zhang Zhong published his first science fiction novel "A Bouquet for Algernon" as a detective novelist , some people look forward to it, some people disdain it, some people wait to see the joke, but I think, no one would have expected that in just one year, Zhang Zhong, who has just turned 30, has already stood at the highest award ceremony for fantasy literature On the stage, I won two awards at once. Looking at Zhang Zhong's handsome face, if the audience passed by the TV, they might think that this is a film awards ceremony, but this is such an unbelievably handsome Big boy, he single-handedly pushed Huaxia Science Fiction to the world last year. And I believe that in the days to come, Zhang Zhong will still create more wonderful works..."

After a long series of explanations, Hu just said back to the awards ceremony.

"The speeches for the awards have been broadcasted, and the much-anticipated Zhang Zhong is standing on the awarding platform. In a few seconds, he will do something that has never happened before at the Nebula Awards. That's right, he will present himself with an award..."

After Zhang Zhong heard the award speech, he glanced at the host standing beside him, thinking that this guy would not come over and tell him what he was going to do in a while.

But things were simpler than he imagined. A young and beautiful hostess dragged a plate and brought the Nebula Award trophy.

Zhang Zhong picked up the trophy from the plate and returned to the microphone.

"Haha, Zhang Zhong actually changed the trophy from his left hand to his right hand, maybe he did it to complete some kind of ceremony."

Zhang Zhong had indeed completed some kind of ceremony and presented the award to himself.

Then he held the trophy and said, "Thanks to the organizing committee, at least in this way, I don't have to go down and come up again, and it takes a lot less walking."

[Hahaha, thinking about it this way, the organizing committee is really considerate. 】

[So that's the case. 】

[There is something. 】

[Beautiful batch, beefy batch. 】

[I don’t know if Zhang Zhong’s acceptance speech was well prepared. 】

【He played on the spot, without preparation at all. 】

Zhang Zhong couldn't hear the audience's ridicule. After he made a joke, he began to say his acceptance speech, "Gentlemen and ladies, good evening. This is a belated greeting. Fortunately, the organizing committee gave me another chance to let me know." I'll add. It's a great honor to win the Xingyun Award for Novel.

When I was a kid, I had heard about the Nebula Award and knew how great it was.

Science fiction is literature based on imagination, and the first thing that left a deep impression on me was Clark Yarra's novel "A Walking Stars". At that time, I thought, everyone has imagination, which is a godsend ability. And this ability can take us to touch those magical time and space that we can never reach.

And expressing our imagination in words in the form of novels may be another way to bring others to that magical time and space.Human beings are small, but imagination is great. Perhaps one day, with the passage of time, some of the once whimsical will become ordinary reality.

So, perhaps our task today is to write out these imaginations before they become dull.Science fiction doesn't predict the future, it just arranges the possibilities of the future, like a pile of imaginative pebbles, there for people to admire.Of these countless possible futures, one of them may eventually become a reality, but science fiction cannot tell people which one will become a reality. This is not its task, and it is beyond its ability.

"Dune" is a novel imagining the future of space. I think everyone here can reach a consensus with me: From a long-term time scale, in the countless possible futures, no matter how prosperous the sea ball is , those futures without space travel are bleak.

I hope that one day, like those science fiction novels that used to describe satellites, mobile phones, and computers, the space we describe now will eventually become ordinary, and the Milky Way will become like our lawn Nearby, the surrounding asteroids are all remote countryside that we don't want to go to..."

This time, Zhang Chong did not make a quick decision, but gave a long speech, without thanks or emotion, as if he was writing an imaginative composition of a primary school student, he came slowly.

After Zhang Zhong finished speaking, he bowed slightly to the bottom, and then went down with two trophies.

There was thunderous applause in the auditorium, some of these applause were sincere, some were against their will, but no matter what, they all knew that at this moment, they should all applaud Zhang Chong.

Sitting next to Lin De, the master of fantasy novels looked eagerly at the two trophies in Zhang Zhong's hands, envious in his heart. He has been famous for so many years, and he comes to award ceremonies almost every year, and for many years he has works shortlisted, but Over the years, he has only won one trophy.

He placed the trophy in the most prominent position in his home, and beside the trophy, he still left a lot of space because he was looking forward to getting more.

There is really no comparison between people. Zhang Zhong has only been around for more than a year, and he has won two trophies, and he is still so young. According to this trend, Zhang Zhong may get the Nebula Award softly.

"Congratulations, pz, your acceptance speech is very touching." Although envious, Linde still expressed his congratulations sincerely.

Zhang Zhong smiled and said, "Thank you."

(End of this chapter)