The Goddess Shines on America

A book of 500,000 words takes a long time to read, so when a series of book reviews were published in major newspapers, December had already opened its doors to ice and snow. ?? Huo Ran Wen????. r?a?n??e?n`

Needless to say, although the two books have the same name and the plot outline is not essentially different, Alice’s "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", of course, welcomes jk-Rowling. It's treated differently.

It was one day in 1997. A single mother used a large amount of scraps of paper in a coffee shop to create a children's fantasy novel of more than 100,000 characters. Although she has greeted a strong response from the industry after launching the entire series one after another and brought herself huge income, at least she has to wait until the third book is officially published.

There is no other reason. It is not that Harry Potter is a slow-moving character, but as a full-length magical series of literature, Rowling's first one or two are really too thin. With insufficient information, how can readers quickly feel the beautiful world of Magic Mother?

But putting it here in Alice is completely different.

First of all, the most direct difference between her and Rowling was laid out in the beginning. A best-selling author who is also a billionaire entrepreneur, and such an influential celebrity writes a book, how can there be no first sales? When the number of her potential readers was a hundred times faster than Rowling's in the same period, the basic response speed of course also increased year-on-year.

Furthermore, it is the most obvious thickness.

As early as a few months ago, Bantam Books had promoted Alice’s long-form magical series plan, the seven-year seven-part child-oriented theme, and the school was the main place of the story. This is obvious, it just happens to be Bedtime reading for a whole generation of people.

With one book, you don’t have to worry about it for a year, and you don’t have to worry about having seven books when you get it. Those children are with their parents about the same age as "Harry Potter." How can they not look forward to this novel?

In such a month, Bantam sold a full 700,000 copies across the country. After all, the price of this book is really not too expensive. You can buy half a million words for 30 dollars. How many months of bedside stories can this tell your children? In other words, women and children are the best earners. In this whole 700,000 sales, the parents' share is really not less!

The reader base is extremely large, and the basic market demand is also very prosperous, so Alice easily broke jk-Rowling's "multiple books slowly awakening the heat" situation. Of course, after all, she has also increased the length of the work by three times. It is not so much that this phenomenon has been advanced, but it is actually that the amount of information has reached the standard in advance.

A 500,000-word book of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" can naturally exert the influence of Rowling's synthesis of the first three books.

Therefore, it is no wonder that in the end of 1988 in just one month, the cultural pages of mainstream media such as the "New York Times" will be thoroughly washed out by the comments of this novel.

"A new type of magic that broke free of Tolkien's frame, a magical story that happened in the city!"

"Famous new stars are rising, and an era of new magic has begun!"

"Seven books, seven academic years, seven fantasy doors are gradually opening up to a generation!"

"The perfect fusion of classical magic and modern society, a proper reflection of illusion and reality!"

Almost a blowout, an entire American fantasy literary world was blown out by this book. Even if the first overseas editions just landed in Canada, writers and critics in dozens of fields could not help it. !

The development of fantasy literature in the European and American markets can be described as prosperous. Since Tolkien in the 1950s, not counting the birth of the same period "The Chronicles of Narnia", etc., in the following thirty years, at least a dozen writers have Write a wonderful story of the same type.

From the six-part "Legend of the Earth and the Sea" in the 1960s to the ten books of "Amber Chronicles" in the 1970s, to the recently published super-length series "Wheel of Time", nothing is wrong. The most outstanding masterpiece of the whole thirty years, and under their shadow, more stories of the same theme are also blooming in series in the form of a hundred flowers.

But they undoubtedly all have a distinctive feature either directly derived from the Tolkien system, or they are just constructing a new world out of thin air. Even if "Amber's Chronicles" has a sense of a multiverse world view, it still belongs to the category of the overhead world.

Another typical feature is that, like Tolkien, how many authors are trying to create an epic sense of vastness. Most of the fantasy journeys of young people, the strong collision between justice and evil, are like this.

As a result, "Harry Potter" is like a hot stone, thrown into the smooth, mirror-like deep ice.

Most commentators have a common point of view, that is, Alice has perfectly integrated the magical atmosphere into modern society, and her "map" based on the United Kingdom has really given this magical sense of history and rationality. Sex. Obviously, it is only a children-oriented school adventure story, but many senior industry professionals immediately recognized many worldview-level messages with their old-fashioned vision!

"Can magic and science fiction still be compatible? The magic of the wizard is a new kind of energy similar to electric energy. The tyrannical brainwaves are transformed into mental powers to influence the movement of microscopic particles. The magical basic course "Magic Theory", let us be self-conscious. The noble "Muggle" has seen the real mighty power!"

"It's strange why we didn't realize it in the past. Think about it, hovering spells and flying techniques are indeed anti-gravity technologies in the field of science. Is magic really just another level of high-tech? Magic wand, good With the phrase "Yugadim Leviosa", the young Ron has displayed the power that the humans of "Star Trek" can master!"

"A new type of magic has completely opened its door, and the scientific literacy of the first-year students is far superior to the Nobel Prize winners, and wizards will eventually rule modern society!"

There is no doubt that too many critics have discovered the most prominent features of Harry Potter. It is not even that it inserts a strange world into the realm of reality, but Alice, as an entrepreneur in the science and technology industry, has successfully integrated the magical setting and the reality science perfectly!

"There is no sense of disobedience at all. The eleven-year-old boy is incompetent to question the teaching of wizards, and the school's teaching is literally gold, which perfectly integrates the development history of the magic system into the history of modern science and technology. What is magic? Magic is an elite high-tech based on human development with supernatural powers!"

"Should this be classified as a magical theme or a sci-fi type? I can't help but wonder. Alice used a whole chapter to narrate Harry's first "Theory of Magic" class, and it also made me, a critic who is full of poetry and books. Baptized by a new education. The magic stone with controllable radioactivity can change the structure of elementary particles to achieve the effect of turning stones into gold. This really makes me imagine that among the generation who grew up watching this series of seven steps How many brilliant scientists will be born?"

To be fair, although Americans are deeply influenced by British culture, the number of readers in the fantasy category is after all limited. This is not the United Kingdom after all. Compared with the type of "Star Trek" that is sure to flourish, the number of loyal readers of magic novels is tens of millions at best. Seven hundred thousand copies were sold in a month, but there are still too many people who have never seen it.

But this is good, and it is not surprising that it has been republished like a blowout after a large number of book reviews have described it in this way.

It actually explained the magic perfectly with science! ?

To be reasonable, Europeans may still feel a little disgusted, but this is precisely what hits the hearts of almost all Americans!

On Christmas Eve, it is the time for every family to make their last shopping for a big meal, but this time on the streets of the city, there are few long lines in front of the supermarket. On the contrary, how many people ran to the door of the bookstore, even if they were carrying large bags and small rolls, even if the team went to the other side along the street and the corner, people still enjoyed it!

"I have a hunch, if my son really reads the seven-parts of "Harry Potter", he will definitely be a scientist in the future!"

"I've seen it through my sister-in-law. It's amazing. You know, I'm a serious physicist. Where would I go to read some magic novels? As a result, you saw it, and I'm here to buy it now!"

"You said ~www.readwn.com~ How did Alice-Wang's head grow? I also read the chapter of "Theory of Magic" through my colleagues. You are a physicist, don't you think How feasible is it?"

To say which part of the whole "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is the most fascinating, I believe no one will say that it is the last "Two Faces". "Theory of Magic" is the theory of magic. It is indeed a campus novel. The author actually used the teacher to teach the readers... and such a wonderful course!

"I just want to know how Alice came up with it." The physicist lined up and said: "The theory part is completely fine, as long as you are really a wizard... Don't laugh, I'm serious. You think Ah, before Faraday, who could have thought of the practical application of electric energy? If we say that these wizards also have a kind of strange biological energy in their bodies, coupled with the powerful brain waves that can perceive the fluctuations of basic particles, invent a so-called spell And magic, isn't it just a matter of course?"

The same is true for awakening the dreamer. The physicist answers questions for the customers in the queue, but hasn't he been affected by Alice himself?

Furthermore, after seeing various news comments, how many scientists rarely bought this magical novel and were affected by it? (To be continued...)