Lin Han has not read the English version of "The Story of Your Life", what he has read is the translated version, so what he needs to do now is to replace the protagonist and the background of this story with a Chinese background, and at the same time try to localize the original translation tone, so as to make the completion of this novel as high as possible. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The story is divided into two main lines, the first of which is the process of the heroine as a linguist trying to learn the language of aliens.

The aliens in the novel have seven long limbs, which radiate from all sides to the center, and a round bucket hangs from the axis, which humans call the "seven-limbed bucket".

They make sounds that are completely incomprehensible, and after various analyses by the heroine Louise, she finally decides that it is necessary to communicate with them through written symbols, not words!

Louise and her colleagues tried to interpret the symbols of the "bucket of seven limbs" through data analysis, and they found that each symbol expressed by the "bucket of seven limbs" was actually a sentence, with neither a beginning nor an end.

The arcs drawn by the ink sprayed from places that resemble fingers (seven-limbed barrel characters) resemble Chinese hieroglyphs!

Different from Chinese hieroglyphs, the seven-limbed bucket script does not rely on words with independent meanings to express meanings, but unifies all the meanings that need to be expressed in one word.

The more complex the semantics, the more complex the word.

Another main thread of the novel is to tell the heroine Louise, who is also a mother, reminiscing about the life of her dead daughter.

In the passages that alternately describe the life of his daughter, it is the theme that the author wants to express, such a life is the heroine's perception mode after being affected by the "seven-limbed bucket", and the foreseen facts have not happened but have long been doomed.

Whether it's the birth of a daughter, or recognizing her daughter at a glance from the nursery, or whispering a story to her daughter, explaining what a "win-win" is, arguing with her daughter, and finally her daughter died at the age of 25.

Everything is a fact, just like the moment of contact with aliens, you can feel it, you can't escape it!

The reason why the novel presents an alternating narrative structure is that it wants to express what the heroine is saying under the influence of alien textual thinking, like a picture axis, and the past, present, and future are all called "memories".

The biggest question this novel asks is: If you could see your life from now on, would you change it?

In short, "The Story of Your Life" has a wonderful sense of time, and at first it will make the reader think that the heroine's contact with the octopus was after the death of her daughter, and she reminisced about her daughter's past while working on it.

The real chronology is that Louise met her daughter's father during her contact with the Octopus - and then the birth and loss of her daughter - before she had this lovesick memory of her daughter!

Therefore, this novel is actually narrated in the form of reminiscence, but at the same time, it is recalling the experiences of two different stages.

And in the memory of the two stages, because of the "seven-limbed bucket purposeful way of thinking", there is an inevitable connection between the underworld.

The novel uniquely uses the technique of alternating first-person and second-person perspectives, and the words are full of the unique sense of strangeness of science fiction.

While the reader feels the unique charm of the language of the seven-limbed bucket, he also feels a kind of sadness due to fate: the sadness melts into the poetic imagery, and finally condenses into the heroine's exclamation - "At a glance, the past and the future come together at the same time, and my consciousness has become ashes for half a century, and time has not yet turned into ashes." The rest of my life is in it. ”

In fact, this is somewhat similar to the popular setting of online novels, the protagonist knows the ending of the whole story from the beginning, but there is no rebirth, system or time-travel!

Different from the human perspective of cause and effect, aliens are first effect and then cause, that is, the effect is known first, and then the cause is known.

The past, present, and future have no boundaries in their eyes, just like a complete history book, which can be turned to the end or to the beginning.

When Lin Han was reading this novel, he had great doubts that since he knew that his daughter would die and her husband would divorce him, he should not marry his boyfriend at all, and even if he got married, he should not have children, so that he could change his fate?

Lin Han used to read "And then, suddenly, I was already in the morgue. A handyman lifted the mask and revealed your face, I saw you at the age of twenty-five", he was deeply hurt by the author's malice, and this sudden horror was very scary.

It was all warm and affectionate before, I thought this was a memoir written by a mother to her daughter, who would have thought that she would suddenly find out that her daughter was dead!

When he first read this book, Lin Han hadn't realized the result of the crossing of the two lines, and he almost thought that this memoir was written for ghosts, which scared him a lot.

Seeing through one's life at a glance, this practice is very popular in online novels, especially in the genre of rebirth, rebirth is to come back to make up for regrets and make up for mistakes, avoiding these risks and turning danger into a disaster is an important cool point!

It's a pity that in "The Story of Your Life", what the author wants to express is a person's attitude towards the inevitable results, the protagonist Louise learned all the things in her life from the beginning, and every step is willing to step into the future, rather than as a marionette of fate.

This kind of writing has its own advantages and disadvantages from the online writing method, there is no superiority or disadvantage, it is just a different choice of the author.

Even Lin Han now has doubts about this new world, is it a joke made by aliens, or is he living in an illusory world like humans in the matrix world?

The result of thinking too much is to become mentally ill, Lin Han still plans to live a good life, no matter whether this life is true or not, it is always right to live seriously.

The full text of "The Story of Your Life" is just over 30,000 words, which is in line with the category of short stories, and it is also very suitable for Tan Lin's previous request, this is a unique science fiction novel, which will probably make many readers discuss.

Your father will soon ask me that question, which will be the most important moment in our lives as a couple, and I want to listen intently and write down every detail. In the dead of night, your father and I spent the night out, dining, and watching a show, and we had just returned.

The two of us came to the courtyard, and there was a full moon in the sky. I told your dad I wanted to dance, and he said yes. We danced a slow dance, a couple in their thirties dancing in the melting moonlight, like two children.

There was a chill in the night air, but I didn't feel cold at all. Then your father said, 'Do you want a baby?' ’】

Lin Han's hands began to crack on the keyboard, and this beginning time was already the story of the heroine and her husband who had been married for two years and settled in Yanjing.

That's right, this story was simply changed by Lin Han to the name of "Arrival", and the heroine Louise was also changed to Qiao Yu, who is also a linguist.

When the aliens landed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he was recruited by the government to communicate with the aliens, wanting to obtain the purpose of these aliens coming to the earth, in the process, Qiao Yu learned the alien language, gained the ability to foresee the future, and fell in love with his colleague Gu Yuchen!

Of course, Ian in the original novel was also changed by Lin Han to Gu Yuchen, a theoretical mathematician and physics professor who worked for the government with Qiao Yu, leading their team to decipher the noise emitted by the seven-limbed barrels in the spaceship.

Of course, the name of the protagonist is not particularly important, the important thing is that Lin Han is finally willing to change the background of the novel, he has not written a novel with this background for quite a long time!

Aliens aren't all bad, and while these barrels of seven limbs may look terrifying, there's a faint sense of intimacy when you read them.

The official organization of experts from all walks of life to crack the information, although there are villains in it, but there is no doubt that this is a success full of positive energy, I believe that no matter how picky readers are, they can't say that Lin Han has a problem!

What's more, there is a certain reason for him to revise it so much, although there are occasional strange hissing sounds in the seven-limbed barrel in the novel, the language system is a kind of written text.

That is, communication between them does not depend on speech, but on writing! The words are squirted out by their tentacles, especially like squid juice!

Although it is not detailed in the novel, the movie version has perfected these words to a considerable extent, and it appears to be a large circle of black ink, but it actually includes quite a bit of content.

These are similar to ancient Chinese hieroglyphs, so as a linguist, Qiao Yu was inspired by hieroglyphs, and it was more convincing to grasp this alien script faster!

Of course, Lin Han actually has no research in linguistics, and he can only follow the setting of the novel in the core part of his major, so that Qiao Yu, a linguist, will not be questioned by readers.

"The only way to learn an unknown language is to communicate with a native speaker of the language. When I say communication, I mean asking questions, talking, and so on, and nothing else. So it's not enough to just analyze the recordings, if you really want an alien language, you have to send someone who is trained in the language and can actually communicate with the alien language, so that he can talk to the alien! ”

The opening chapter did not waste too much pen and ink, Lin Han dangled a shot on the time to describe that after the protagonist and her husband were married for two years, they adjusted the time back to the previous first meeting between the two.

If you don't see the end, the reader won't know that the physicist who follows the colonel to find Qiao Yu at the beginning of the novel will be her future husband!

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Recently, it has been more decadent, and the author has decided to change his mind and be a new person!

Work hard to write a big chapter and work hard to recover from the outbreak!