At this time, it happened to be midnight, and the bright moon seemed to be within reach, and this stalk from the three-body problem quickly made readers get excited, and they left replies one by one neatly below: "Don't answer! Don't answer!

This has become a comic rally, everyone tacitly copy-pasted and replied, even if some troublemakers in the back deliberately disrupted the formation, but with the help of the collective, the popular comments and the latest comments were all occupied by this sentence, and even ushered in many sightseeing groups. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The famous name of "The Three-Body Problem" is well known to everyone on the Internet, even if you have never read this novel, you know that it exists. Even if the new book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is new, readers who like the three-body problem are still digesting it.

Lin Han casually liked the following comment, this group of readers will really play!

His phone dinged, and the email master popped up an email, this all-English email was actually from the American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and when I clicked on it, I found that it was a congratulatory letter!

"Dear Lin, it is my pleasure to inform you that in this year's Nebula Award nomination list, you have been nominated for four Nebula Awards, including Best Novel and Best Short Story. We are honored to invite you to Chicago on May 13th for the awards ceremony......"

Lin Han took a deep breath, he had completely forgotten about the Nebula Award after his recent rest, he didn't expect that he could get so many nominations, but there was no news on the Internet, I am afraid that he was the first group of people to know.

He used the small screen of his mobile phone to search the official website of the American Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers, and the email mentioned that the specific list of nominees had been announced on the official website, and Lin Han needed to check it.

"Mr. Lin, if you are not busy, you can take a look at the image data here, which has just been declassified and can be released to the public. ”

The staff member said expectantly, cautiously in front of the idol.

"I'm sorry, I'm checking my email, can you wait a minute?" Lin Han didn't know which of his works had been nominated, and now was the time to be nervous.

Even if he won the Hugo Award, he couldn't resist the charm of the Nebula Award, these two awards are simply the brightest twin stars for a science fiction writer!

"Yes, you can get busy first, I'll come back later. ”

Lin Han smiled apologetically at the staff member, and then began to zoom in on the webpage with his fingers to find the list of nominees in a conspicuous position, and click on it to check it out.

The Nebula Awards have always been highly exclusive, and novels that are not written in English are unlikely to be shortlisted, and this is more like the home of American science fiction writers, and the last time a translation of the best novel was in 1976, when Calvino's masterpiece "Invisible Cities" was originally written in Italian.

After more than 30 years, Lin Han once again achieved this feat with his excellent works, and fought his way out among American science fiction writers!

Unlike the Hugo Awards, which focus on science fiction, the Nebula Awards are more inclusive, and it also includes fantasy works in addition to science fiction, because this award is selected and awarded by the American Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers.

In foreign countries, these two types of literature are almost inseparable, blending and tolerating each other, and writers often cross between the two genres.

The Nebula Awards are relatively simple, divided into long-form, medium-length, novella and short story awards and best screenplay awards, and special master awards are also awarded from time to time to encourage writers who have made outstanding contributions to science fiction, and it is one of the most influential science fiction awards in the world.

Its selection is limited to science fiction and fantasy works published or published in the United States, and all of Lin Han's novels meet this condition, and even with such limitations, the Nebula Award is still the most influential award in the fantasy fiction world!

It is often compared to the Hugo Award, which is collectively referred to as a "double award". If a science fiction novel wins a "double award" at the same time, it marks that it has undoubtedly entered the palace of classics!

After so many years, there are many writers who can win two awards, but there are very few works that can win double awards at the same time, and there are only 18 full plans.

These 18 works that have won the World Science Fiction Double Award are all masterpieces without exception, and they are well known to science fiction lovers around the world!

The selection of the Nebula Award is very interesting, at the beginning of March each year, those English works published in the United States last year are selected, and those who have exceeded the time are not counted, as long as they are members of the American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, they are eligible to recommend works.

An organization of the association will first compile a list of recommendations, and after voting by members, a final list will be determined, and no more than five nominees will be submitted for each branch award.

It's not easy to get into that recommendation list, this work needs to get more than 10 recommendations, and Lin Han himself is not a member of that association at all, and he doesn't know the writers over there, so he has no connections and only relies on the hard power of the work!

The entries that are not on the shortlist are not yet secure, and they will need to vote twice by the members of the association to determine the final winner, and then they will be one of the five nominees!

Due to the extremely limited number of excellent science fiction and fantasy magazines and publishers, the brand effect can be seen from the annual nomination list, and basically the best short stories and best short stories are monopolized by giant magazines such as "Analog".

And the best novel is controlled by science fiction masters, and few newcomers can stand out!

At present, Lin Han is not a pure newcomer, he won the Hugo Award for Best Novel last year, and this year's nomination at the Nebula Award can be said to shock the world, because among the five Best Novel nominations, Lin Han occupies three names!

In the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Lin Han is completely crushing mode, and in the last year, he has written several good works that are popular among readers, not only among readers, but also in the SFWA Association.

The nominated works include "Three-Body Problem 1", "Jurassic Park", and "I, Robot", although the rest of the novels are equally excellent, it is impossible for Lin Han to dominate all five nominations alone!

"Three-Body Problem 2" and "Three-Body Problem 3" and "The Martian" are all eligible for nomination, but unfortunately the votes are too serious, only to become a missing pearl, these works can be used to impact the awards in the rest of the years, but this year they can't even get nominations, which shows how fierce the competition is!

Lin Han's two opponents do not have a simple role, one of them is the sequel to last year's Nebula Award novel "The Servant's Justice", and the other is the 2006 Nebula Award, the 2008 Hugo Award-winning Laurence Norwick's popular fantasy novel "Roots Rise"!

In the Best Medium Novel, Best Novella and other awards, Lin Han did not have any works shortlisted, in the Best Short Story, he also won something, last year won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story "The Last Earthling" is also shortlisted strongly, but another short story failed to break through.

"The Last Earthling" swept from the essay competition of the British "Daily Mirror" to the Hugo Award with a few crosses, and now a year has passed, the heat has not dissipated, and it continues to lead the Nebula Award!

Lin Han has almost never heard of the works of its opponents, after all, he is in contact with domestic science fiction works, and those foreign science fiction journals have different works born every month, Lin Han is not a light brain computer, it is impossible to cover everything.

It is worth mentioning that in the list of nominations announced this year, except for Lin Han, no writer or work has been nominated for a double award, either a lack of Hugo Award nominations or a lack of Nebula Award nominations!

Lin Han is the only writer who has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award this year, and his novels "I, Robot" and "The Last Earthling" have a chance to hit the science fiction double award, maybe these two works will become the successors of the eighteen classics!

In addition to these, there is also a Best Screenplay Award at the back, Lin Han's two science fiction adaptations are scripts written by himself, but they are still in the filming stage, maybe they can only run for this award when the movie is released next year.

Saying that Lin Han is the biggest winner of this year's Nebula Award, I'm afraid no one will object, this science fiction and fantasy award based in the United States has been dominated by Lin Han, a foreigner, and no writer has ever been able to win two nominations at the same time in the Nebula Award novel, but Lin Han not only did it, but surpassed it!

The three nominations were star-studded, almost dazzling, and the notorious Puppy Gang at the time of the Hugo Award nomination was wiped out at the Nebula Awards, which made Lin Han quite happy, and he was not willing to go toe-to-toe with that group of people.

After saving this list to his phone, Lin Han grinned, he once again created the history of Chinese science fiction!

What is it to win the nomination, the first time I was shortlisted, I won four nominations, and it is the one with the highest call for awards!

Lin Han, who has brought together the memories of most of the world's science fiction masters, is finally sharp at this time, and classic works emerge in endlessly, no matter how the outside world sings about him, he has to admire the excitement of these works.

His new book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is undoubtedly booked for next year's nomination, and no one should ignore them for no reason.

Even if many members of the SFWA Association were surprised and dissatisfied with the result of the nomination, they could not do anything about it, and for the sake of the fairness of the award, they could not open their eyes and tell nonsense.

If none of Lin Han's works can be shortlisted, the rest of the works will be a joke, and Lin Han is an unavoidable topic!

Yao Lingfeng also got the news here, Guoke.com was already in contact with the Science Fiction Convention, although the World Science Fiction Convention is the selection body of the Hugo Awards, but it is also connected.

He was worried that the VCR filmed tomorrow would not be able to find the time to play, so if Lin Han was brought to the Nebula Awards dinner to be played, the effect might be much better.

"Mr. Lin, congratulations! Your Nebula Award nomination has set several records, needless to say, it is the first time in Asia and the first time in China, winning three nominations in the same award is unique in the history of the Nebula Award for decades!"

Lin Han waved his hand, and he replied with a smile: "The nomination is nothing, if you don't win the award, who will remember that someone has won so many nominations." ”

This is true at all, success and defeat, everyone can remember the person who won the award, and it is impossible to say on the cover of the book that this work has been shortlisted for the Nebula Award on the cover of the book when it is published, right?

The people around them whispered one after another, and they all knew that Lin Han was once again shortlisted for an international award after the Hugo Award.

Congratulations and congratulations are endless, this is a real victory, for everyone who likes science fiction, the status of the Nebula Award is the Oscar of science fiction, not a pheasant award can be compared.

After smiling at these staff members one by one, Lin Han sent a text message to Chen Jiaxuan, and the people in his studio are lagging behind when paying attention to foreign trends, I'm afraid they don't know the news.

If it weren't for the American Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association to take the initiative to send a congratulatory email, then Lin Han himself would not know about the shortlist, this time a total of four nominations are in hand, and he is eager to create a miracle of his own!

It's just that after the message was sent, I didn't receive a reply for a long time, and I guess I've started to sleep beauty at this time.

After a day's visit, Lin Han returned to the hotel of the observatory, at this time the heating dispelled the cold outside, he took a hot shower and then lay on the bed and thought, don't look at the scenery when he was nominated, but in the final award process, he has an irreversible weakness.

First of all, I am a Chinese, this is an American award, there are inherent shortcomings, the Hugo Award has always been facing the world, the Nebula Award is not like this.

In addition, people in the industry generally know that nominations are based on merit and winning awards depends on luck. Three novels are nominated at the same time, and in this case, the votes will be divided very seriously, and the other two writers can use their connections to gather the scattered votes.

The judges use a secret ballot to decide the final butterfly, and they will decide the ranking of several entries according to their own evaluation, and if most people think that the same work should be ranked first, then the work automatically wins the award.

After the entries with the fewest votes are excluded, the remaining entries will be re-voted.

For this nomination, Lin Han also has some selfishness in his heart, in the original world, these works have won awards, but they have no awards in their hands.

It's not that they are not good enough, but they haven't fully considered such a situation, and they will move the works out of one go, and as a result, the number of award-winning works is limited every year, and the works that should have won the award are only named Sun Shan!

"I knew I needed to control the speed of my writing!"

Lin Han was very annoyed, no matter which work won the award, he would leave regrets for the rest of the works......

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I don't want to code words every winter, I don't dare to put my hand on the keyboard in a room without heating, and my hand is stiff when I write, and I'm ready to buy an electric heater online, the winter in the south is still very long! )