A big reason why Lin Han is willing to be interviewed is that he doesn't have to directly face so many media reporters, he only needs to concentrate on dealing with one, and conscientious media like "People" magazine will not take words out of context and list some sentences in his words that are easy to cause ambiguity. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the point where Lin Han said the wrong word, it would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and he was not willing to increase the workload of his employees, or this method was more suitable for him.

The shooting of the cover is very simple, it is enough to shoot his face, and the background behind him will be blurred, focusing on the mental outlook and eyes of the whole person, which is something that Lin Han can get his hands on!

After all of this, Jamie finally said: "On behalf of readers all over the United States, I would like to ask you a simple question, when will Hyperion be published in English, we all know that this book has conquered Chinese readers, and we don't know if it will be to the taste of our American readers." ”

"Trust me, it's going to satisfy you. And it won't keep you waiting too long, I'm sure you'll see it in October!" said Lin Han confidently, in fact, the English version of "Hyperion" was already in preparation, and he had already started at the urging of Alex, the editor of Penguin Publishing Group.

Writers who can speak English have the advantage of being able to translate their own work without worrying about losing something if another writer does it.

"Then I'll write this time into the interview, and if it doesn't go out, your readers will riot en masse. I'm looking forward to reading that book, Yanjing is a beautiful place, and I hope to see more of your excellent works in the future!"

Lin Han shrugged his shoulders, "Of course, maybe I will start a bilingual serialization in Chinese and English in the next book, everything is possible." But it doesn't need to be in the interview, you just know it. ”

The two of them shook hands, marking the end of the People magazine interview!

……

After coming out of the hotel, Lin Han didn't rush home, it was still early, so he dragged Chen Jiaxuan to wander around the street.

Yanjing in September is not as hot as summer, and the autumn breeze is very cool on the body!

"Where are we going?" Chen Jiaxuan walked beside Lin Han in her high heels, and she held her boyfriend on this somewhat unfamiliar street.

Lin Han patted her hand and said jokingly: "Find a bookstore to sit down, I'll buy some books, so that the bookshelves in our house can be filled." ”

The two bookshelves in the study room of the villa are a little empty, most of them have no books placed on them, and many of them are some books that Lin Han bought for reference in writing novels before, which is relatively professional!

Science fiction also has to keep pace with the times, and it can't be a fantasy, but now Lin Han has decided to take a vacation for his brain and buy some books by other writers.

It is necessary to study and accumulate properly, thick accumulation can thin hair, Lin Han is now a little tired of science fiction, and he has to change the genre to wake up his mind!

There weren't many bookstores, and after walking for more than ten or twenty minutes, the two of them saw the "square place" that was decorated like a shopping mall.

This bookstore is very tastefully built, not as modest as the Xinhua bookstore, although it is only one floor, but the area is very large, and the shelves are full of books, and even the wooden steps go up there has an atmosphere like an ancient library.

"Nowadays, bookstores are becoming more and more artistic, and there are so many people coming in to take pictures. Chen Jiaxuan whispered in Lin Han's ear, she didn't dare to speak loudly, lest she disturb those who were concentrating on reading.

Lin Han also feels the same way, such an elegant and comfortable paradise is suitable for picking up a novel, ordering a cup of coffee, sitting in a chair and enjoying the whole wonderful afternoon!

He looked up and looked carefully at the book type navigation on it, and then led Chen Jiaxuan and walked towards the covered bridge in front, the book he wanted to buy was in front.

For people who are good at books, good books are never enough to read, especially after being reborn once, they will understand the value of knowledge even more! If Lin Han had not liked science fiction so much in his previous life, then he would hardly find too many ways to change his predicament after being reborn!

"You want to buy mystery novels?" Chen Jiaxuan couldn't help but shudder, she actually prefers novels with a literary nature, such as "Gone with the Wind" and "Wuthering Heights".

Lin Han doesn't know much about this type of novel, he has read the works of those more famous writers, and now he finds that the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" he once watched actually has a novel version, which is beyond his expectations, this is not only a suspense novel, but also a classic literature!

"This book should be very good, look at how well written the testimonials are. Lin Han picked up a notebook, "When the lamb is quiet, do you hear the cries and whispers in the darkest part of your heart?"

Chen Jiaxuan patted his forehead, in such a classic movie, the psychologist and the murderer Hannibal have always been active on the screen, "I have recalled that movie scene now, you can find some normal novels to read." ”

Lin Han grinned, revealing neat white teeth, "Don't worry, I won't eat you." ”

Chen Jiaxuan was so frightened that she was stunned, and after she reacted immediately, she grabbed Lin Han's waist with her hand, "You actually scared me, I almost believed it!"

"And are we going to have steak tonight?"

"Don't eat, go vegetarian, go to the Bodhi vegetarian restaurant, it's said that it's not bad over there. "Chen Jiaxuan was not such a fragile person originally, but she was willing to put away those disguises in front of Lin Han, who was not a little princess!

In the following time, Lin Han took books such as "Perfume", "Deserted Village Apartment", "Murder on the Orient Express", "Alice Mirror City Murder", "Leaning House Crime" and other books in his hand.

The thick stack of books makes the cashier can't help but want to call the police, is it really good to buy so many books of this kind in one go?

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't feel the rest of the books, Lin Han would have wanted to buy more, but he decided to read these books first, and then he would buy them in an online bookstore and have them delivered to his door.

……

Lin Han can be said to have returned with a full load, although he wanted to eat some meat, but because of Hannibal mentioned before, he had to accompany Chen Jiaxuan and go to Bodhi vegetarian to eat vegetarian food.

This vegetarian restaurant is very prosperous, located in an ancient courtyard with three entrances, and there is a 400-year-old locust tree in the yard, which is full of marriage cards, and the environment looks very good!

The ingenious chef has made a vegetarian dish that mimics a meat dish at all, and the signature dish "More Than the World" is clearly a tempting boiled fish dish made with beans and even higher in taste than real fish.

The taste is delicious and tender, and the appearance of this tofu fish has a layer of black skin, just like the skin of the fish, which tastes a little firm and tough!

Another very famous dish is called "Fu Bao", which is specially prepared with a tin foil lotus leaf plate floating on top of it, and it contains smooth vegetarian abalone fillets. These soups stewed with a variety of wild mountain mushrooms looked cool and transparent, and they tasted even more delicious, which made Lin Han can't help but have a great appetite.

"Seriously, the craftsmanship of this vegetarian restaurant you chose is really good, this vegetarian abalone fillet tastes like meat, and it is very delicate. ”

Chen Jiaxuan took a small bowl and drank two sips of hot soup, and she said proudly: "Of course, this is what my good girlfriend revealed to me." If we're tired of eating real meat, it's good to come over once in a while and eat vegetarian!"

It's also very good to drink some soup in autumn to replenish your body, and now the villa where Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan are located has hired a nanny and aunt to cook, otherwise Lin Han can't stand cooking every day.

Life is like this, you have to enjoy it, and now that money is much more relaxed, don't grieve yourself!

After the two of them had eaten and drunk enough, they took a slow walk on the sidewalk, which was regarded as a way to eliminate food, after all, Chen Jiaxuan did not allow herself to grow too fat.

"How do you pass the time when you go back at night?"

Lin Han laughed lightly: "Why don't I watch a movie or TV series with you?" If I don't need to, I'll read the books I bought." ”

Chen Jiaxuan is not a vexatious person, "There are no TV series to watch now, but tomorrow I will ask my girlfriends to play board games together." You have books to read, but unfortunately I can't find any good novels. ”

Since it was a small talk, Lin Han didn't pay much attention to it, he opened his mouth and asked, "What kind of novels do you want to read, how many do I recommend to you?"

"I want to read that kind of classic romance novel, and I want to read the science fiction you write. Of the many novels you have written, there are not many that I can really understand, even "Hyperion" can only stay on the basis of shock and emotion. ”

At the beginning of the lanterns, Lin Han stopped his steps, "If you like it, I will write you a science fiction romance novel, and I will start writing it when I finish translating "Hyperion"!"

Chen Jiaxuan was not surprised, but she looked at Lin Han with doubts: "My dear, do you know that what you are not good at is writing female characters and the emotional drama between the male and female protagonists?"

In Lin Han's science fiction novels, the most criticized point is this, there are often some mistakes in the heroine, either there is no heroine, or the heroine of the vase, or the heroine destroys the world, and there are very few female characters who are properly written.

At the thought of writing a science fiction romance novel with such a masculine writing, Chen Jiaxuan couldn't help but shudder, strange and infiltrating!

Lin Han was questioned by his girlfriend, he would not give up this opportunity, although the outside world said that science fiction is written for men, but Lin Han also has a large number of female readers, mainly written to his girlfriend, and even given to female readers, he has already made a decision in his heart in a few seconds.

"Whether the novel is good or not, you don't know until you write it. Now don't underestimate me, anyone who underestimated me before ended up being slapped in the face by himself. Lin Han said with a smile, reading more is beneficial!

Chen Jiaxuan initially thought it was just a joke, but she didn't expect Lin Han to take it seriously, and her curiosity was constantly raised: "What, let's talk about what type it is, don't let the heroine fall in love with zombies." Is it an interstellar romance?"

No matter how she asked, Lin Han stood still, "Don't worry, I'll give it to you after I write the first chapter." ”

It was originally a long way, but just talking and laughing, he actually walked back directly, and the result was that Chen Jiaxuan's heel was worn out!

……

The villa area is relatively quiet, only a few dogs bark occasionally, Chen Jiaxuan is chatting with his friends with his mobile phone, playing "Who is undercover" on the Internet, Lin Han is in another book seriously looking at the book he bought, from time to time to look up at Chen Jiaxuan, who is playing crazy, every movement is very harmonious.

The quiet time is always short, Lin Han has only read more than 20 pages of the novel, and a phone call came, this is his assistant Yan Hong reporting work!

"Mr. Lin, the list of 800 lucky readers drawn today has come out, and we will send it out by courier tomorrow, after screening by the lottery platform, there are 520,000 people who are eligible for the lottery. ”

Lin Han didn't expect that there would be so many participants in his Weibo post, he was in a good mood, and said to his mobile phone: "Just pull it out, your computer should be replaced with a new one, I'll reimburse you, buy whatever model you want." ”

Yan Hong knew that his boss was generous, and he replied excitedly: "Thank you, boss! By the way, boss, I have just received feedback from the National People's Congress Publishing House on the first day of the pre-sale of "Hyperion", and it seems that it is directly invincible from the beginning!"

"Tell me how much. ”

"On the first day, the official website of the Comprehensive People's Congress Publishing House also has the official flagship store on the shopping website, as well as the pre-sale of Xinhua Bookstore and the rest of the bookstores, and the number of pre-orders for "Hyperion" on the first day is already 210,000 copies!"

Maybe it's because he listened to "The Martian" a few days ago and was used to buying hundreds of thousands of copies a day around the world, Lin Han was not very surprised by the 210,000 copies of "Hyperion" pre-sold, "Oh, it's just that, I thought there were many." ”

Yan Hong on the other end of the phone was about to collapse, he tightened his mobile phone and explained: "Mr. Lin, this is a lot, this is a break in the first-day pre-sale record! Your original "Inception" has a total of 1.18 million pre-sales, and the number of pre-sales on the first day is not as much as 210,000!"

Now in the entire book market, the pre-sale record is held by Lin Han himself, and only he can break the record, and now he has reached a state of invincibility.

The funniest thing is that these two novels that have set pre-sale records have been directly updated by him in a serialized way on the Internet, obviously many people have already read them, but the pre-sale has created an impossible record!

On the contrary, it is those novels that readers have not read, such as the "Three-Body Problem" series, which is not the top in pre-sales, perhaps because the word of mouth has been fully spread when it was serialized.

After listening to Yan Hong's explanation, Lin Han understood what the 210,000 copies meant, he touched his chin and asked, "If there are 210,000 copies on the first day, what will be the final pre-sale?"

"We can compare Inception side-by-side, it pre-sold more than 500,000 copies in the first week, and it also maintained this level in the second week, and finally it was 1.18 million pre-sales. Now the pre-sale period of "Hyperion" is only one week, but the sales volume is much ahead, so the final pre-sale result given by the National People's Congress Publishing House is 90-1 million copies. ”

In the book market, the only writers who can sell more than one million copies of a single science fiction novel are Lin Han and Li Wenyuan, so this pre-sale result is actually quite good.

"Okay, I see. If you have these messages later, send them to me on WeChat. ”

Lin Han is actually immune to sales, and every book sells millions, millions, millions, and now what he wants to do is to break through this bottleneck!

Almost all of his science fiction novels stay in the Chinese version of millions of copies, the English version of millions of copies, the total can break 10 million, but none of them can reach 10 million in a single market area.

Although there has been a significant decline in the book market recently, it is obvious that it can be differentiated from the rest of the writers who can enter the tens of millions of sales.

……

A week later, "Hyperion" ushered in the official sale, but the figures announced by the National People's Congress Publishing House made countless people blind!

originally thought that the pre-sale estimate of 900,000 copies was already very optimistic, but the publishing house gave 1.58 million copies, which directly increased the original performance of "Inception" by 400,000 copies!

On the whole, 210,000 on the first day turned out to be the lowest day of pre-sales, which is an unacceptable result for any book, with 250,000 copies the next day and more than 200,000 copies in the following days.

Sure enough, it was invincible from the beginning, and this strange trend has not yet appeared in the history of book sales, so there are many people who question this number!

"I'll go, the sales will be filled with water, and I will know that this is fake. Bragging and not making drafts, this is a joke!"

"What kind of sales king, it's obviously the king of water injection!"

"Admire the publishing house, do you dare to put this kind of number out and fool everyone for fools?"

"To do this kind of thing for the sake of the so-called record, the decisive passerby turned black!"

"Wow, congratulations to Mr. Lin. I ordered this book the day before yesterday, and there happened to be a coupon that could be discounted by 20%. What a lonely man to be invincible, a man standing at the top!"

"Do Mr. Lin's novels still need to be filled with water?

"Anyway, I still hope that the publishing house can clean up the data well, don't make a mistake, I don't want Mr. Lin to become a joke on the whole network. ”

"I contributed 1.58 million copies, and the middle two volumes!"

"I contributed a book!"

"And me"

"Me too!"

In the face of the suspicions of netizens and the apprehension of readers, the National People's Congress Publishing House once again released Weibo: "When we saw this number, we also expressed strong doubts, and even took the initiative to investigate. It is not us who announced the pre-sale figures, but the General Administration of Press and Publication, and the other party said that the data is true and there is no falsehood, so "Hyperion" is the new pre-sale king!"