Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 805 Consecutive Announcement of Nominations
At the end of April, the nominees for the Nebula Awards were finally announced. This year's nominations were announced earlier than last year, but definitely much later than previous years.

According to the usual practice, the nominations for the Nebula Awards will be officially announced in January or February, and then the awards ceremony will be held in May and June.

Last year, some people speculated that the delay in announcing nominations for the Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards was entirely due to the inability to properly arrange Zhang Zhong's works.

Because Zhang Zhong released a lot of science fiction novels the year before last, and each of them is a classic, it seems that it would be inappropriate not to award the award to Zhang Zhong.

But this year the situation is different, because Zhang Zhongyuan did not publish a few science fiction novels last year.

Not surprisingly, "The Clockwork Girl" is nominated for Best Novel, while "Yellow Card Man" and "Calorie Man" are also nominated for Best Short Story.

To be shortlisted for three novels in one session may be a very remarkable achievement for other writers, but for Zhang Zhong, this is his worst achievement ever, and two of these three novels are short stories.

However, there is no way around this, because Zhang Zhong only released these three science fiction novels last year, and the Nebula Award organizing committee has no choice but to give him a few more nominations.

In fact, this year's Nebula Award Organizing Committee also breathed a sigh of relief, because they no longer have to worry about whether to exclude Zhang Zhong's book from the shortlist as they did in the previous two years.

Anyway, there were only three science fiction novels last year, so let all three science fiction novels be shortlisted.

This year's Nebula Award is also more noticeable, that is, apart from Zhang Zhong, there is actually a work by a Chinese author that was shortlisted.

The work shortlisted for the Nebula Award is the novella "The Far Side of the Earth" by Chinese science fiction writer Feng He. This novel has only 4 words in total and tells a science fiction story related to space.

In the distant future, the starfish people accidentally discovered a space technology that can build a world similar to the starfish's surface on the other side of the surface.

However, with the development of science and technology and the limitations of technological development, the surface of starfish has faced various pollutions, and it has become impossible for human beings to survive on the surface.

The governments of various countries use the newly discovered space technology to build a new world on the other side of the earth.

But the new world cannot produce various resources out of thin air, so the government transferred the available resources on the surface to the new world, leaving only a hostile environment on the surface.

In this case, of course, it is impossible for all people to immigrate to the New World, so countries began to select "excellent" talents to live in the New World.

As for which people are excellent, of course it is not the common people who have the final say.

During the immigration process, civilians resisted, but they all ended in failure, because the civilians had no weapons, no resources, and naturally no right to speak.

The bloody suppression has made other civilians see no hope, and can only watch in despair those outstanding people emigrate to the new world through the space channel.

As for them, they can only stand under the dark sky, looking at this hopeless old world, struggling.

The performance of this novel is very good, and it is the best-performing science fiction novel in China's book market except for "A Clockwork Girl" last year.

The novel was also quickly translated into various languages, and sold more than 1000 million copies worldwide in less than a year.

It is conceivable that if "Far Side of the Earth" can finally win the Nebula Award for Best Novelette this time, its sales should be even higher.

It is undeniable that the success of "Far Side of the Earth" has Zhang Zhong's factors.

Because of Zhang Zhong, readers in other countries are paying more and more attention to Huaxia's science fiction works, and Feng He is also the author of Zhang Zhong's company, so he must be linked to Zhang Zhong in publicity.

But the fundamental reason is that "Far Side of the Earth" itself is of excellent quality, and it is a high-quality sci-fi work ranked number one in China in recent years.

The domestic sci-fi market is getting better, and Feng and his sci-fi writers are becoming more passionate. The end result of this virtuous circle is that more excellent sci-fi novels will emerge.

Although Zhang Zhong did not dominate the Nebula Awards this year like last year, there is an extra peace, which makes domestic readers feel very gratified.

China's science fiction world finally doesn't need Zhang Zhong to support it alone. When they discuss science fiction works with foreign readers, they can also have more writers to show them off.

When the Nebula Award announced the list of nominations, it also specifically mentioned that due to the internal rectification of the organizing committee in the past two years, the announcement of nominations last year and this year has been delayed, but the situation will improve from next year.

This is a bit like there is no silver 300 taels here. It seems that they are afraid that readers will think that the delay of the award last year was because of Zhang Zhong, so this year they deliberately postponed it a little bit, just to show that their delay is not because of Zhang Zhong, but really because of the organizing committee Will be corrected internally.

At the same time, when the nominations were announced, the time of the awards ceremony was also announced.

The award ceremony will be held on July [-] in Chicago, USA.

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Not long after the announcement of the Nebula Awards, the shortlist for the Hugo Awards was also announced.

Unlike the Nebula Award, there are actually four novels by Zhang Zhong in the shortlist for the Hugo Award. In addition to "A Clockwork Girl", "Yellow Card Man" and "Calorie Man", last year's book "Harry Potter 1" was also shortlisted for the Best Novel Award.

This made many book fans very strange. Can a book like "Harry Potter" be shortlisted for the Hugo Award?

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that the shortlist of "Harry Potter" is also within the rules. After all, its release time should be regarded as last year, and fantasy novels are also in line with the scope of the Hugo Awards.

This is a small surprise.

But at the same time, to the disappointment of Huaxia readers, Feng He's "The Far Side of the Earth" was not shortlisted for the Hugo Awards.

Although everyone is disappointed, it is understandable. After all, the finalists and winning works of the Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards are not always the same every year.

The award ceremony of the Hugo Awards, also known as the World Science Fiction Convention, is scheduled for five days from August [-]th to August [-]th.

The location was announced last year, and it is in Jiangyang.

Therefore, for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, Huaxia's audience is looking forward to the latter. After all, this will be the first time that Huaxia holds the World Science Fiction Convention.

In the hearts of sci-fi readers, China's hosting of the World Science Fiction Convention is at the same level as hosting the Olympics.

Moreover, the venue of this sci-fi conference is Zhang Zhongkai's Juwang Science and Technology Exhibition Hall. The exhibition hall will be fully open at that time. At that time, the entrance fee can be saved in the past.

(End of this chapter)