It's late at night, and people who have been busy all day have fallen asleep, only the colorful neon lights are not sleepy, and they are still working tirelessly.

In the study of a mansion in Causeway Bay, smoke filled the room, as if it was on fire. The ashtray on my desk was filled with cigar butts, and wisps of green smoke were rising. Immersed in the pleasure of writing, Lin Kuang didn't feel choked in the air at all, and was writing with a pen.

Many people know that Lin Kuang writes quickly, but they don't know why he writes fast. Lin Kuang has loved reading since he was a child, and he has read a lot of books. Famous abroad, whether it is Britain, France, the United States, or Russia, Lin Kuang has seen it, and many of them have been seen several times. "Sherlock Holmes" and Agatha's have basically been watched.

In this process, Lin Kuang has developed a special skill, when the words will be turned into pictures in his mind, so while reading a book, it is like making a movie picture in his head. When Lin Kuang writes, he actually describes the pictures in his mind, so compared with writers who search for words and sentences, he writes very fast.

More than a month ago, when Lin Kuang was reading the newspaper, a piece of news inspired him and formed a story in his mind. As Xu Wangqiu said, it was a story that ended with aliens, but he didn't plan to revise it.

What's wrong with the alien ending, as long as my story is good enough, even the routine will still win you!

I'm not just going to win you, I'm going to torture you in the story!

This story about torture, in Lin Kuang's mind, Xu Wangqiu was tortured by all kinds of torture, kneeling on the ground and begging for his forgiveness, and his answer was only one word "Get out". Being able to abuse Xu Wangqiu, that feeling is even cooler than having a trip with a mommy in a nightclub. Lin Kuang smiled proudly, turning the picture in his mind into a vivid description, and gradually outlining the cruel story of "Capital Punishment".

At the same time, Xu Wangqiu sat at his desk, holding his hands in his arms, thinking about what he should write. He told Liao Yiyuan that there are many science fiction stories in his head, and it is easy to bring these science fiction stories out. But after these stories are brought out, it is difficult to say whether they can shadow Lin Kuang.

For Xu Wangqiu, who grew up watching "Science Fiction World" and is familiar with Asimov, Heinlein and other masters, Lin Kuang's so-called science fiction is not science fiction at all, it can only be regarded as fantasy. If Lin Kuang is a master of science fiction, then I eat tomatoes too, then "Devouring the Starry Sky" is a science fiction masterpiece. In his opinion, the reason why Lin Kuang's science fiction is popular is not how good he is, but that there is no science fiction in Xiangjiang and the mainland.

In fact, science fiction in the late 70s and early 80s was quite popular in the mainland, and it was an exciting era for people who like science fiction. Since Ye Yonglie published his first science fiction article "Petroleum Protein" after the end of the movement in 1976, science fiction creation has been surging. Whether it is "PHS Roaming the Future", "Death Light on Coral Island", or "Flying to Sagittarius", which is generally recognized by the science fiction literary community, almost all of them have been born in recent years.

In the past few years, almost all literary journals and scientific newspapers have rushed to publish science fiction works, and almost all science and technology publishing houses have opened their doors to the publication of science fiction. China's publishing industry soon formed the "four major towns" of science fiction publishing: Beiping, Modu, Sichuan and Heilongjiang, which concentrated and simultaneously demonstrated the level of China's original science fiction.

However, all this came to an abrupt end in 1983, and in the 1983 "clean-up campaign", science fiction was characterized as "spiritual pollution" and was directly hit head-on. It criticized science fiction for "spreading suspicion and distrust, promoting being a free and easy person", and "a very small number of science fiction has gone beyond talking about science and has shown bad political tendencies".

For a time, all the science fiction publishing departments were silent and silent. The publication management authority has repeatedly issued documents prohibiting the publication of science fiction, and relevant magazines have suspended publication for rectification. In 1983, Science Fiction Ocean and Science Literature and Art Translation Series ceased publication, and in 1984 and 1986, Science Age and Wisdom Tree ceased publication. For a time, there were thousands of Chinese science fiction magazines, and only one science fiction magazine, "Science Literature and Art", remained. At its worst, there was no place in China where a science fiction article could be published.

In order to survive, "Science Fiction Literature and Art" was forced to change its name to "Fantasy" at the end of the 80s, and it was not until 1991 that it was renamed "Science Fiction World". It was also in this year that "Science Fiction World" successfully held the influential World Science Fiction Association WSF Annual Conference in Chengdu, and Chinese science fiction began to recover.

Xu Wangqiu believes that if it weren't for the clean-up campaign, if it weren't for the stifling of Chinese science fiction, Ni Kuang would not have been as popular as he was later, because the standard of Chinese science fiction writers in this period was quite good.

Take Ye Yonglie as an example, in 1977, Ye Yonglie published "Miracle on the World's Highest Peak" in "Juvenile Science", the story is that a nest of dinosaur eggs was found on a cliff in the north col of Mount Everest, which has basically become a fossil, but one of the eggs is wrapped in pine resin, and is not petrified, and the soft tissue in it is intact.

Soon after Ye Yonglie's article was published, it was fiercely criticized, and some archaeologists came forward to accuse that dinosaur eggs were products of more than 70 million years ago, and they had long been highly calcified and had lost all their life characteristics. The polemic between the two quickly attracted attention and expanded into a big debate about whether the sci-fi surname "Ke" or the surname "Wen". And directly led to the 1983 clean-up campaign, science fiction became the focus of the crackdown

More than ten years later, Ye Yonglie watched "Jurassic Park" in the United States and wrote the article "Watching Dinosaurs on a Snowy Night". Although he didn't mention himself, his feelings were mixed. Because "Jurassic Park" is based on Michael Clayton's 1990 science fiction of the same name, the dinosaur resurrection technique in "Jurassic Park" is also based on the active substances in dinosaur eggs.

Two articles that also describe the resurrection of dinosaurs, one is famous all over the world and is sought after around the world, and the other is criticized and has been drowned in the dust of history ever since, which is really emotional.

Xu Wangqiu felt that if he competed with Lin Kuang in martial arts, or something else, he might not be able to compare. But science fiction is a brain hole, and even ten Lin Kuang can't compare with him. Whether it is moved out of Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem", or a short story such as "Full Band Blocking and Interference" is expanded into a long story, Lin Kuang can easily be beaten into slag.

It's just that considering that Chinese science fiction will have a few seeds of Liu Cixin and He Xi in the future, and they will be dug up in advance, then there is really no hope for Chinese science fiction. As a science fiction enthusiast, Xu Wangqiu will definitely not be able to do this kind of thing.

However, carrying the works of foreigners, Xu Wangqiu really has no psychological pressure at all.

How many things were looted from the Louvre and the British Museum, and were the British and French under pressure?

Xu Wangqiu has seen many Nebula and Hugo Award-winning tomes, such as "Mars Trilogy", "Ender Series" and so on. But the interest of these tomes is relatively weak, and if they are taken out to compete with Lin Kuang, they may not necessarily win Lin Kuang.

Lin Kuang's advantage is that the atmosphere is well created and the story is gripping, which can attract readers to read it. Lin Kuang is also proud of his good looks, he once said that the so-called hard science fiction is not good-looking science fiction.

Lin Kuang has been operating in Xiangjiang for many years and has a large number of fans, so it is not easy to win Lin Kuang in terms of sales.

Only by surpassing Lin Kuang in terms of brain holes and stories can he win in this contest.

After weighing it repeatedly, Xu Wangqiu aimed at "The Matrix" and prepared to change "The Matrix" to.

The story of "The Matrix" is extremely exciting, and the concept is extremely advanced, and it is not a problem to beat Lin Kuang.

"The Matrix" belongs to cyberpunk, and the pioneering work of cyberpunk, William Gibson's "Neuro Wanderer", was published in 1984, which is this year. If you write "The Matrix" yourself, maybe you can replace "Nervous Wanderer" and become the pioneering work of cyberpunk.

More than ten years later, making "The Matrix" into a movie may also open a new era of Chinese sci-fi blockbusters.

There's simply no better option than The Matrix.

There is another reason why Xu Wangqiu chose "The Matrix", cyberpunk has a great relationship with Xiangjiang. The originator of cyberpunk "Blade Runner" is invested by Run Run Shaw, and the Xingang City in Cyberpunk's masterpiece "Ghost in the Shell" is based on Xiangjiang.

In the spring of 1993, William Gibson was transiting at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong, and when he accidentally threw a glimpse towards the Kowloon Walled City, which was being demolished, his breath was immediately seized by this dark and deep magic cave. The writer who was obsessed with its charm transplanted the image of the walled city into his "San Francisco Trilogy", creating the classic virtual space "Dark City".

The society in cyberpunk is a high-tech and slum-like society, and the city is often depicted as a place that decays and hides sin beneath a high veneer of prosperity. Hong Kong happens to be such a city, with the high-rise buildings of Victoria Harbour on one side and the slums of the Kowloon Walled City on the other. Because of its special resemblance to cyberpunk conceptions, Xiangjiang has a special status in the cyberpunk community, and has even been called a cyberpunk mecca by some people.

Placing the story of "The Matrix" in Xiangjiang is simply the perfect choice.

Now that home computers are a new thing, and cyberpunk has not yet been born, it is a question whether Hong Kong readers can understand and understand cyberpunk. However, Xu Wangqiu is not worried at all, he believes that Xiangjiang readers can understand.

In his last life, when he was in junior high school, he read an article called "Meimei" on "Science Fiction World", which tells the love story of a man and a computer girl. At that time, he only used the DOS system in the school's computer room, and the Internet, e-mail, and virtual reality were all completely unfamiliar new concepts, but these did not become an obstacle to reading, but made him amazed.

Xu Wangqiu picked up the tea on the table, drank it all, and wrote the title "Mother" on the manuscript.

The image of "The Matrix" came to Xu Wangqiu's mind, and he quickly wrote: "At the beginning of night, the lights of Victoria Harbour are gradually brightening, and there is a purple glow in the sky. On the other side of Victoria Harbour, Taiping Shan and the Clock Tower are facing each other day and night, one high and one low, forever guarding each other, witnessing everything in Victoria Harbour together. I.M. Pei's design of the Bank of China Tower, with its soaring shape and steel-framed glass structure, brings into full play the traditional temperament and modern style of Hong Kong. On the square near the sea, in order to welcome the return of the Xiangjiang River, the golden bauhinia that was molded is in full bloom.

On the other side of the city, the Kowloon Walled City, which is about to be demolished, is like a huge beehive, and the windows of the black hole are like open mouths, greedily absorbing the energy of the city. On the third floor of a certain building in the walled city, the heavily armed Flying Tigers tiptoed ......"