Even though Lin Han is an avid fan of science fiction literature, Penguin Publishing Group actually put "I, Robot" alongside those world classics, which is definitely a heavy pressure. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

He believes that the quality of this book is definitely a masterpiece in science fiction, and once it is included in the "Penguin Classics" series, he will no longer be greeted by the judgment of science fiction readers, but also by the general public.

They would surely wonder why a science fiction novel could appear in such an authoritative series, which would help Lin Han open up the situation and get more readers.

Alex sensed Lin Han's disbelief, and he said with a smile: "Actually, we decided to give you a 10% share before, but after the news that FSG and St. Martin's Publishing Company were looking for you, we decided to show enough sincerity. ”

"Actually, I haven't talked to them yet, so I don't know the conditions. But it's hard for me to refuse your kindness, it's too tempting. But sadly, my agent didn't start working, you know, it's the traditional Chinese New Year. ”

"Shit, I forgot about this. Happy Chinese New Year!"

Alex's Chinese tone is very strange, in this world China's national strength is similar to the United States, so Chinese culture has been more widely spread, foreigners still know a lot about the Spring Festival.

After Lin Han heard the editor's blessing, he also replied: "Thank you, I think this must be the happiest Spring Festival I have ever had." If you don't mind, I'd like to wait for the agent to come and negotiate the details, what do you think?"

It would be naïve to be able to settle a contract with just one chat. Now Alex is completely showing his sincerity, and he doesn't think Lin Han will choose other publishing houses.

Therefore, Alex now replied unusually generously: "No problem, this is our inconsiderate consideration, I wish you a happy New Year." ”

After the end of the call, Lin Han began to understand the relevant staff of several other publishing houses, but although the conditions of these publishing houses were very superior, they were inferior to Penguin Publishing Group.

The person in charge of San Martín was ingenious in that instead of competing for the more popular English rights, he unexpectedly chose the Spanish rights.

Similar to English, Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, with more than 400 million people in the world speaking Spanish, and 22 of them are official languages.

St. Martin's English copyright is not as good as Penguin Publishing Group or FSG in the United States, but they are in a unique position to publish in Spanish.

Lin Han is happy to see his novels blossom in many ways, and let more countries join in reading, which is a good thing.

There was no conflict with the rest of the copyrights, Lin Han naturally nodded and agreed, and at the same time recorded Saint Martin in the notebook, so as not to forget it.

At present, Chinese Simplified Chinese has been published, English and Spanish are in contact, as long as these two editions are published, the rest of the language versions will naturally come into being.

Chinese, English and Spanish are among the top three languages in the world, and if these three languages are successfully published, the radiation will be extraordinarily broad, which can increase the readership of Lin Han as much as possible.

After finishing everyone's conversation, Lin Han almost collapsed in front of the computer desk, and this way of dealing with people seemed to be more painful than writing a book.

He shook his head and began to think about what short story he should write next and put it in the Mirror.

This is not an easy task at all, because for cultural reasons and the relationship between length and content, a novel published in a newspaper can only be three or four thousand words at most.

And the more classic short stories in Lin Han's mind are at least 10,000 words, and he wants to write "Chaowen Dao", but 18,000 words is not suitable at all.

"Bouquet for Algernon" has a short story of the same name and a long story, and the content is very appropriate, but there are also some problems with the number of words.

The choice of science fiction novels of more than 3,000 words is indeed relatively small, which no longer seems to belong to the category of short stories, but should be classified as miniature novels.

After searching around the subject library of European and American writers, Lin Han suddenly turned his attention to Asian science fiction writers.

One of his favorite Japanese science fiction writers, Xing Shinichi, is famous for his miniature science fiction novels, known as the "father of Japanese miniature novels", "the originator of Japanese miniature novels", etc., and has been praised as "the wandering sentence of science fiction", "the new edition of one thousand and one nights", "must read in life" and so on.

Xing Xinyi's miniature science fiction novels have a cumulative print run of more than 100 million copies worldwide, and he is an out-and-out master of science fiction.

The most interesting rumor about Shinichi Hoshi is "Detective Conan", the manga author Gosho Aoyama named the protagonist Shinichi Kudo as a tribute to Shinichi Hoshinichi, and Conan Edogawa is a tribute to Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, and Ranbu Edogawa.

It's not easy to pay tribute to three people in a comic.

Lin Han's thinking diverged too far, and after he slowly gathered his clues, he began to choose among Xing Xinyi's novels.

The science fiction master has greatly enhanced the flexibility and monetization of microfiction, some of which are set in fantastical future worlds, some resemble fairy tales and fables, some are philosophical, and some are fascinating with reasoning and suspense.

The highest artistic value and artistic achievement in Xing Xinyi's miniature novels are naturally science fiction novels, which often choose an ingenious angle, which is unique and large, like a delicate and exquisite little mirror, reflecting various fragments of social life from different angles.

In order to write a miniature novel in a concise and detailed manner, it is necessary to master superb tailoring skills. Xing Xinyi is a middle and high master, to make a long story short, he can always give people a new feeling, both adults and children love to read.

There are a lot of works by this Japanese science fiction master, and Lin Han has read dozens of them, which is not all of his at all.

Now that Lin Han thought about it carefully, he searched for Xing Xinyi's name on the search engine, not only using the domestic Qiandu, but even using Google to search for Xing Xinyi's Japanese name, to ensure that there was no such writer to the greatest extent.

Not only searched for Xing Xinyi, but also searched for these works, and only science fiction novels that did not exist in this world could be taken by Lin Han.

"The charm of fiction lies in fiction, and the novel "Artificial Beauty" is very good, using fictional fiction to write about real social phenomena, reflecting human nature is the most fundamental thing. ”

Of course, the gimmick of the novel's name is also very good, many people can't help but click to read it after seeing it, and it can also be related to Lin Han's robot series, who made this artificial beauty an extremely exquisitely made robot girl!