Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 501 New Work
In the past, the Hugo Awards also had the situation of swiping votes, but those had little impact on the results. This time is different. If "Star Skin", a work whose nominations are all made up, beats "Dune" to win the Hugo Award, then they Do you still want the face of the Science Fiction Society?
Faced with this situation, there are only three paths before Hilde.

The first way is to respect the rules set before and respect the final result, award the novel award to "Star Skin", and let the readers scold it.

The second way is to directly deny the voting results this time, and award the award to the works that the committee thinks are suitable, such as "Dune", but this way, although the readers have an explanation, it violates their own awards. The rules are tantamount to slapping yourself in the face.Furthermore, the organizations that swiped the votes this time are not small. If the result is really denied, those organizations will definitely counterattack.

So after weighing it for a long time, Hilde decided to be an ostrich, and neither party would offend, so he stopped sending it directly.

However, he also thought about it in the follow-up. Although the distribution was suspended this year, he can learn from the Nobel Prize and make up for it next year.When the time comes for the annual conference affairs meeting, refine the selection rules and try to eliminate the situation of swiping votes, then the shame of this year can be wiped out. All he needs to do is to hold back and endure for a year.

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Someone knocked on the door, Hilde raised his eyebrows, and the person he was waiting for came.

"Come in."

Vice President Larry came in.

Hilde asked impatiently, "How's the matter?"

Larry smiled while holding a document, "All the evidence of Link's leaking of the awards in 2013 is in it."

Hilde narrowed his eyes and clapped his hands, "It's really good news."

Link is a member of the committee. In 13, he did inadvertently leak the news of the Hugo Awards to his friends, but Hilde felt that it was nothing at the time, and the leak was not critical information, so he helped suppress it.

But because something happened this time, Hilde remembered that incident at that time, and he wanted to use Link to leak the news of the award to draw the attention of the public.

"Okay, then let's spread the news quietly, don't be too deliberate." Hilde said.

Larry nodded and said, "Well, I see."

……

Two days later, a "scandal" about the Hugo Awards spread, saying that Link, a member of the permanent committee of the World Science Fiction Association, had been expelled from the association for leaking information about the awards.

After the news spread, the World Science Fiction Association came out to apologize again, admitted the incident, and said that the reason why the Hugo Awards were suspended this year was also because of this incident. They will learn their lesson and try to restore the Hugo Awards as soon as possible issued.

For a while, it seemed that the truth of the matter became clear.

It turns out that the Science Fiction Association's pale lie before was to cover up such a scandal.

When Zhang Zhong heard the news, he couldn't help praising the chairman of the committee, Hilde, for being so dark-hearted. He was able to pull people over at this time. Although that Link may not be innocent, he became the target of public criticism at this time. , It simply pushed him into the abyss.

Of course, the truth of the matter is already clear to Zhang Zhong. The main force of this time is an organization called "White", which is composed of a group of crazy science fiction writers.

After reading the report Chen Qing handed over, Zhang Zhong was also very surprised.

The thirteen main members of "White" actually published a total of 270 novels, long, medium and short, last year. On average, each person wrote more than 20 novels a year, which can be described as extremely productive.

Quantitative changes can sometimes produce qualitative changes. Half of the works that participated in the first round of voting for the Hugo Awards this time were organized by this organization.

If it wasn't for the suspension of the Hugo Awards, at least half of the winning works would be theirs.At that time, the scandal of the Hugo Awards may not be comparable to this small scandal now.

The Nebula Awards and the Hugo Awards have both advantages and disadvantages.

The award of the former work is only decided by a few people, all of whom are professionals, and it is easy to control, and there will be no situation of swiping votes.But the problem is that it is easy to control. As long as these people are not in the right position, they can completely control the awards, and it is easy to embezzle and accept bribes.

Although the latter is decided by many people and minimizes the possibility of bribery, it seems very democratic, but in fact it increases the possibility of swiping votes.

In fact, Zhang Zhong didn't care too much about these awards, not many before, and even less now.

What he is most preoccupied with is how to get the next two volumes of "The Three-Body Problem".

During this time, he spent another [-] points to draw a prize, but he got Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind".

This is an excellent book, which not only performed well in the market, but also won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

But for Zhang Zhong, this is destined to be another book that will not be taken out after being thrown into the library.

Before Zhang Zhong thought that his points were enough, but recently he suddenly felt that the points were not enough. According to this situation, he didn't know when he would be able to get the remaining two "Three-Body Problems".

The "Metamorphosis", which was previously drawn for the "Three-Body Problem", will be published along with the new collection in these two days.

The name of this collection, Zhang Zhong thought about it, and finally used the three words "Iris Collection".

……

Different from Zhang Zhong's other book releases, "The Iris Collection" seemed mediocre on the day it was put on the shelves, and most of the people who went to the bookstore to buy this book were Zhang Zhong's diehard fans.

After all, most people lose the desire to buy when they see the word "ji".

It has been exposed before, saying that this "Iris Collection" includes works such as "Life is Like a String" and "Soul Breaking Gun".

And these works, most people have seen them on the Internet, if it is not true love, generally they will not spend money to buy them.

……

Wang Meng was unwell a few days ago, but these days he has recovered, but after all, he is old and the years are not forgiving. This time, a small cold made him suddenly feel that his body is not as good as before.

Although it is summer, he always feels that his hut is a little cold, but he can't go outside, otherwise he will be scorched by the scorching sun.

Wang Ke looked into the main room and saw his grandfather in a daze, so he didn't make a sound, just stood aside and waited quietly.

After about five or six minutes, Wang Meng's eyes refocused, and only then did he see his grandson waiting beside him.

"Why are you here at this time?" Wang Meng pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down."

Wang Kewang didn't sit down in a hurry, but took out a book, "Zhang Chong released a collection today, I thought you might be interested, grandpa, so I bought a copy and sent it here."

Wang Meng took the book, "Are there any new works in the collection?"

"I don't know yet. I just bought it and sent it here." Wang Kewang said.

Wang Meng nodded, opened the plastic cover, turned to the catalog, raised his eyebrows when he saw the first article, "There is really a new work, if I remember correctly, he hasn't published this "Metamorphosis" before."

(End of this chapter)