The next day, at nine o'clock in the morning.

In the auditorium of the University of Iowa, more than 200 people were seated.

In addition to the writers who came to participate in the writing exchange, there were also many students from the University of Iowa, who took their places early and waited for the lecture to begin, with the attitude of learning about the writing culture of various countries.

In the auditorium of Nuo University, in addition to the three Chinese people Huo Yaowen, Lin Yanni, and Nie Hualing, there are also two writers from Asia, Komatsu Sakyo from RB and my grandson Touzhilang.

When Nie Hualing introduced the two in the morning, Huo Yaowen knew Komatsu Sakyo among them, after all, the other party's sci-fi masterpiece "RB Sinking", he had also read it, and he had to admire Komatsu Sakyo's courage to resolutely write a book about the sinking of his country.

As for the other one of my grandsons, Huo Yaowen doesn't know him, and he doesn't know if he is a well-known writer in RB in the future, but he is very interested in this person's name, "My grandson"??

It's hard to imagine that RB still has such a strange surname as "my grandson"!!

...

Huo Yaowen looked at the people around him, most of them were blonde foreigners, only he and Lin Yanni were sitting here, and as for the two RB people, they were all in the other row.

Waiting for the opening was a little boring, Lin Yanni found a topic and asked, "Huo Sheng didn't see you all day yesterday, and he has been writing in the room?"

"Well, I just had a new idea, so I wrote it down first. Huo Yaowen smiled.

Lin Yanni said: "What theme does Mr. Huo want to write?"

"Science fiction. ”

"Science fiction?"

Lin Yanni was stunned, she thought about Huo Yaowen writing romance and adventure, but she just didn't expect what he said about science fiction.

At this time, before she could ask more, a voice sounded on the stage.

Paul Ingres took to the stage with the president of the University of Iowa.

"Bang Bang Bang"

The audience burst into fierce applause.

The president of the University of Iowa walked up to the microphone with a smile on his face and said, "I am Roches, the president of the University of Iowa, and I welcome writers from all over the world to the International Writing Program jointly organized by the University of Iowa and Paul Ingres.

This is the first international cultural writing exchange program, and I think we can invite writers from more countries and regions to come here and discuss with us the development of new literature in the future. ”

"Bang Bang Bang"

The applause thundered again.

When Principal Roczes had finished speaking, he stepped back and held out his hand to signal Paul Ingres to step forward.

Paul Ingres smiled at the principal, walked to the lectern in the center of the stage, and said into the microphone:

"Hello everyone, I'm Paul Ingres, and today is a special day, on November 17, 1968, the International Cultural Writing Exchange officially began in the auditorium of Iowa University in Iowa, USA.

This will be the favorite exchange meeting of countless young writers around the world in the future, and it will also be the best exchange meeting that many people will experience in their lives.

Writers from different countries, races and cultures around the world will discuss important issues such as adaptation and cultural conflict, theme selection and artistic expression, national tradition and global consciousness, and commonality and particularity of creation.

The 10-day conference will feature 10 writers from different countries who will talk about their cultures and the atmosphere of their writing.

Today is the first day of the cultural exchange meeting, and in addition to me and the principal, we have naturally invited a celebrity to applaud Alan Ginsburg, the most representative of American modernist literature today. ”

As soon as Paul Ingres's words fell, more than 100 University of Iowa students in the audience burst into loud cheers, many of them whistling, slapping their mouths, playing King Kong, to cheer on their Beat leader, Allen Ginsburg.

The writers who came to the writing meeting, except for two Americans, most of the people from other countries all showed a strange look when they heard the cheers of the audience.

Cheer and cheer, how does it feel like coming to a singer's concert.

Whistle?

Playing King Kong?

This is a writing cultural exchange meeting??

Are you sure the person invited is a writer, not a singer from a pop band?

Lin Yanni also looked puzzled, she glanced at the foreign students in the venue, it was hard to imagine what kind of writer could lead such a group of college students to make such a strange cheering sound?

Lin Yanni turned her head to look at Huo Yaowen and asked, "Mr. Huo, do you know who Mr. Paul said just now? ”

A few years ago, the Beatles came to Hong Kong to hold a concert, and Lin Yanni also went to hear it, and the cheers at that time were the same as here.

Huo Yaowen said: "Alan Ginsburg is a more popular writer in the American literary circle, and his prose poem "Howl" written in his early years was regarded as a poem of freedom by his peers in the United States, and he was also a young leader of the Beat faction in the United States, which was very popular with Americans. ”

"The Beat faction?" Lin Yanni was stunned, she didn't know much about the United States, so she didn't know what the Beat faction meant.

Huo Yaowen thought for a moment and explained: "The Beat School is a new literary genre based on realist literature in the United States after World War II. ”

"Mr. Huo is really powerful, he even knows all this. Lin Yanni exclaimed.

At this time, unlike in later generations, as soon as the Internet is checked casually, the information will come out directly, and the connections between countries are not as dense as in later generations, so listening to Huo Yaowen say it so clearly, Lin Yanni only thought that the other party had read poetry and books and knew a lot.

Huo Yaowen smiled: "It's just that I happened to read an American literary magazine mentioning Alan Ginsburg yesterday, so I know a little bit about him." ”

At this time, when Alan Ginsburg stepped onto the podium, the cheers from the audience were even more excited.

But when Alan Ginsburg waved everyone to mute, the arena soon fell silent again.

This kind of influence makes many foreign writers envious, and at the same time, they secretly wonder who this person is?

With the exception of a few foreign writers who know Allen Ginsberg who knows the American literary scene today, most people don't know much about this seemingly influential American.

"Hi everyone, I'm Alan Ginsburg, and I'm excited to be invited to the University of Iowa to participate in the first International Writing Program.

Some call me the youth leader of the Beat faction, some say that I wrote the poem "The Howl" because of their faith, some say I am an anti-combatant, and some say I am a bohemian......

But I want to say that this is just a station in my life, I don't think these can represent me, in my opinion, only writing, only the word writer can fully summarize what I want to express.

From the earliest "Howl", to the "Reality Sandwich" I wrote three years ago, or the "American Fall" that I am currently writing, all of this is just a portrayal of my life in the United States, and only in the form of words can more people understand the United States today, and can more people better understand my ......."

For Alan Ginsburg's speech, Huo Yaowen almost went in and out of his left ear, and almost all of what the other party talked about was the characteristics of the hippies in American society, which did not mean much to Huo Yaowen, because he was not an American, nor was he a scholar who studied the cultures of various countries, so he did not need to understand these.

On the other hand, although Lin Yanni wanted to understand the content of Alan Ginsburg's speech, she was helpless that the other party did not understand the meaning of ten or nine sentences.

can understand the English he speaks, but the American meaning he wants to express is something that Lin Yanni can't start.

I don't know how long it has been, but this speech, which lasted for more than an hour, has finally come to an end.

When she went back to her accommodation, Lin Yanni was with Huo Yaowen.

"Mr. Huo, did you understand what that Alan Ginsburg said?" asked Lin Yanni curiously.

"Nope. ”

Huo Yaowen chuckled and said: "This is a culture that belongs exclusively to Americans, and we are not scholars who study this kind of thing, so there is no need to listen carefully, just listen casually." ”

When Lin Yanni heard this, she nodded slightly, at this time, she understood why Nie Hualing did not invite those well-known literati writers in Hong Kong, but invited herself and Huo Yaowen, two newcomers.

After returning to the room, Huo Yaowen sat back at the table and began to write the book.

According to his meaning, this book can be written for a very long time, at least two million words, but considering whether it can be published and the time to stay in the United States for ten days, Huo Yaowen is only going to write about 100,000 words in the first part.

The first part ends when the Sagittarius Alpha sends a space battleship to enslave Mars and prepare to continue to conquer the earth, causing the people on the earth to fall into endless panic.

In this first part, Huo Yaowen naturally tried his best and racked his brains to write the creativity of later generations as perfectly as possible.

Just like the law of the dark forest, Huo Yaowen was perfectly integrated into his book, and since the Explorer was launched, it has been discovered by many civilizations in thirty years.

These civilizations have all chosen to ignore and ignore it, because they can't tell whether it is a trap or a bait thrown by a hunter to lure them into it.

But the alpha people of the centaur constellation are different, they are a colonizer civilization, with a technological civilization beyond the resemblance of humans, after capturing the radio waves emitted by Explorer 1, they intercepted it as soon as possible, and sent a battleship to Earth.

Science fiction, although based on science, is only fiction after all, fantasy science.

Huo Yaowen's book has few hard points, but it is full of creativity, coupled with the memory of forty years far beyond that of contemporary people, the description and imagination of the future world, and the science fiction stories made up after watching so many science fiction movies and TV series, are definitely attractive.

Is everyone aware that science fiction is fake, but still fascinating why?

It is because of the rapid development of science and technology, the future does not mean that it is impossible to achieve, not for a hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years, as long as human beings are not destroyed, science is always progressing.

The charm of science fiction is to take a step as soon as possible, so that human beings can see the possibility of the future, although many are unrealistic fantasies, but science fantasy is also a way to show the charm of science, and fantasy may not be able to come true, often sometimes a scientific invention is derived from human fantasy.

....

In this way, in addition to attending lectures, Huo Yaowen spent the rest of his time writing novels in his room and in the campus library of the University of Iowa.

On this day, when Huo Yaowen finished attending the lecture and returned to the room to continue writing a novel, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Knock knock. ”

Huo Yaowen asked, "Who?"

Lin Yanni said: "Mr. Huo is me, Ms. Nie said that the people from Bantan Book Publishing House are here, let us go over." ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen's eyes lit up, and the secret path finally came!