A book of 500,000 words can take a while to read, so by the time a series of book reviews were published in the major newspapers, December had already opened its ice and snow gates. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I don't have to say that although the two books have the same name and there is no essential difference in the plot outline, Alice's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is, of course, treated very differently from JK Rowling.

One day in 1997, a single mother was in a café and used a lot of scraps of paper to make up a children's fantasy novel of more than 100,000 words. Although she received a strong response from the industry and brought her a good income after launching the entire series one after another, it was at least until the third book was officially published.

There is no other reason, not that Harry Potter is a slow burner, but that as a long-form fantasy series of literature, Rowling's first one or two films are too thin. If there is not enough information, how can readers quickly feel the beautiful world of the magic mother?

But when it comes to Alice, it's a different story.

First of all, the most direct difference between her and Rowling was laid out from the beginning. When the number of her potential readers is already 100 times higher than that of Rowling in the same period, the basic response speed has of course increased year-on-year.

And then it's the most obvious thickness.

As early as a few months ago, Bantam Books promoted Alice's long-form magic series plan, a seven-part seven-part children's theme, and the school as the main story takes place, which is obvious, it happens to be a bedtime book for an entire generation to grow up.

One book in hand, a year without worry, seven books in hand, never have to worry, those children are the same age as "Harry Potter" parents, how can they not look forward to this set of novels?

In this way, in one month, bantams sold a full 700,000 copies across the country. After all, the price of this book is really not too expensive, 30 dollars can buy 500,000 words, how many months can this tell their children bedside stories? Or whatever, women and children are the best money, and in the entire 700,000 sales, the share of parents is really not less!

The readership base is incomparably large, and the underlying market demand is also very prosperous, so Alice easily broke the situation of "multiple books slowly arousing the heat" of JK Rowling. Of course, after all, she also tripled the length of the work, not so much to advance this phenomenon, but actually to meet the standard of information in advance.

A 500,000-word "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" can naturally have an impact on Rowling's first three books combined.

Therefore, it is not surprising that just a month later, at the end of '88, the cultural pages of mainstream media such as the New York Times will be completely washed by the commentary on this novel.

"A new type of magic that breaks free from Tolkien's framework, a magical story that takes place in the city!"

"A new star of famous novels is rising, and an era of new magic has begun!"

"Seven books, seven school years, seven fantastical doors are gradually opening to a generation!"

"The perfect fusion of classical magic and modern society, the proper intersection of fantasy and reality!"

Almost like a blowout, the entire American fantasy literature community was blown up by this book, even though the first overseas version has just landed in Canada, but dozens of writers and critics in the field can't help it!

The development of fantasy literature in Europe and the United States can be described as flourishing, starting with Tolkien in the fifties, not counting the birth of the contemporaneous "The Chronicles of Narnia" and so on, in the following thirty years, at least a dozen writers have written exquisite stories of the same genre.

From the six-part "Legend of Earthsea" in the 60s, to the birth of the ten books of "Amber Chronicles" in the 70s, and then to the recently published super-long series "The Wheel of Time", all of them are the most outstanding masterpieces of the past 30 years, and under their shadow, more stories of the same theme are also in the form of series, constantly blooming.

But they all undoubtedly have one distinctive feature - either they are directly derived from the Tolkien system, or they are all just building a new world out of thin air. Even if "Amber Chronicles" has a multiverse worldview, it still belongs to the category of alternate worlds.

Another typical feature is that, like Tolkien, how many writers try to create a sense of epic vastness. The fantastical journey of the teenagers, the strong collision of good and evil, is mostly like this.

As a result, "Harry Potter" is like a scorching hot pebble thrown into a cold deep pool as smooth as a mirror.

The vast majority of commentators agree that Alice has perfectly integrated magic into modern society, and her "map" based on Britain really gives this magic a sense of history and legitimacy. It's just a children's school adventure story, but many veterans in the industry have immediately recognized a lot of worldview information with their old-fashioned eyes!

"Is magic and science fiction still compatible? The magic of the mage is a new variety of energy similar to electricity, and the powerful brain waves are transformed into mental power to affect the movement of microscopic particles. The magical basic lesson "Theory of Magic" has given us self-proclaimed 'Muggles' a glimpse of true power!"

"It's strange why we didn't realize it in the past. If you think about it, the hovering spell and the flying spell are indeed the anti-gravity technology in the scientific field, is magic really just a high-tech on another level?

"The doors of a new genre of magic are completely open, the scientific literacy of first-year students far exceeds that of Nobel Prize winners, and wizards will eventually rule modern society!"

There is no doubt that too many critics have found Harry Potter's most prominent features. It's not even that it inserts a bizarre world into the realm of reality, but that Alice, as an entrepreneur in the tech world, has managed to perfectly blend magical settings with real science!

"There's no sense of disobedience at all. The eleven-year-old is incapable of questioning the teachings of wizards, and the school's teaching is even more incredulous, perfectly integrating the history of the development of the magic system into the history of modern science and technology. What is magic? Magic is an elitist high-tech based on supernatural human development!"

"Should this be classified as fantasy or science fiction?" I wondered if Alice devoted an entire chapter to Harry's first lesson in Magical Theory, and gave me a new education as a well-read critic. The Philosopher's Stone with controllable radioactivity, which changes the structure of elementary particles to achieve the effect of turning stones into gold, really makes me wonder how many brilliant scientists will be born in the generation that grew up watching this series of seven parts?"

To be reasonable, although Americans are heavily influenced by British culture, the number of readers in the fantasy category is limited after all. It's not Britain after all, and compared to the ironclad genre of Star Trek, the loyal readers of fantasy novels are tens of millions at best. It sold 700,000 copies in a month, but there are still too many people who haven't seen it at all.

But it's a good thing, and it's no surprise that when a large number of book reviews describe it like this, there is a blowout of reprints.

Perfectly explained magic with science!?

To be reasonable, Europeans may still feel a little disgusted, but this is precisely the heart of almost all Americans!

Christmas Eve is the time for families to make their last purchases for a big meal, but this time on the streets of the city, it is rare to see long queues in front of supermarkets. On the contrary, how many people ran to the door of the bookstore, even if they carried large bags and small rolls, even if the line went down the street along the corner of the wall to the other side, people still enjoyed it!

"I have a hunch that if my son really finishes the seven-part Harry Potter series, he will definitely be a scientist in the future!"

"I saw it through my sister-in-law, it's really wonderful. You know, I'm a serious physicist, so I usually read some fantasy novels, and you saw it, and I'm going to buy it now!"

"You say, how did Alice Wang's head grow? I also read that chapter of "Theory of Magic" through a colleague, you are a physicist, right, what do you think is feasible?"

If you want to say which part of this whole "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is the most fascinating, I believe no one will say that it is the last "Two-Faced". "Theory of Magic", which is the theory of magic, is really worthy of being a campus novel, and the author really used the teacher to teach the readers...... And it's such an amazing course!

"I just wanted to know how Alice came up with it. The physicist lined up and said, "The theory part is perfectly fine, as long as you are indeed a wizard...... Don't laugh, I'm serious. Who could have thought of the practical application of electricity before Faraday? Wouldn't it be logical to invent a so-called spell and magic with the powerful brain waves that can sense the fluctuations of elementary particles, and that these wizards also have a strange biological energy in their bodies?"

The physicist answers the questions of the customers in the queue, but how could he not be influenced by Alice himself?

Furthermore, how many scientists have bought a fantasy novel after seeing all kinds of news comments, and then have been affected?