With the editor-in-chief's reading speed and review experience, Domingo read the entire book with far more efficiency than Brown, and of course, this has something to do with the fact that it is now work time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info review is also work, and he certainly has a reason to leave everything else out for that.

After Brown's publicity, almost everyone outside the editor-in-chief room also knew that a rookie Chinese writer named Alice Wang had pitched Bantam with an excellent piece that fascinated both Brown, who had been in the business for 15 years, and Domingo, who had been in the industry for 20 years, were obsessed.

Then, at the end of the day, seven editors, including Brown, were notified that Domingo was in a meeting.

"According to the process, shouldn't I contact the author first?"

Just after receiving the notice and about to get up, Brown's colleague, Niddle, drank vanilla and Mocha and said, "Why did Rice call us to a meeting first? and still call seven people in one breath?"

"Maybe it's something else, oh, my waist, it's really old. ”

Ames, the editor at the table next to him, was sixty years old, but he had a bad fate, and although he had gray hair, he could only live in an ordinary editorial position, even in one of the largest publishing houses in the industry.

"Although Rice was fascinated by that book all morning, no one said that he called us to have a meeting for it, didn't he? Let's go, don't let that guy wait!"

The group quickly gathered in the conference room, where seven copies of the manuscript were distributed in their respective places, and Brown didn't even have to look through them to know that the topic of the meeting must still be about Jurassic Park.

"Everyone knows what I'm up to today, so I won't talk too much. ”

Sitting at the top of the table, Domingo's editor-in-chief said: "I've read it through, and it's definitely an excellent science fiction novel, and it touches on several topics such as biotechnology, cloning, chaos theory, and the harmonious development of man and nature. And the most commendable thing is that it didn't happen in a completely fictional era, or at this time. ”

Most editors were a little surprised to see Domingo so popular with this work. The gray-haired Ames flipped through the manuscript casually and said, "Since it's so good, you should have already contacted the author, how did you communicate with the other party?"

Domingo snorted, rubbed his temples and said, "This is the biggest problem at the moment, the author did give a call, but I hung up all day today and couldn't reach her." ”

"Didn't anyone answer?"

Ames said, "Is there a phone message?"

"No, if you're Asian, you probably don't have the habit of using the phone to leave messages? ”

Domingo sighed casually, and continued: "Anyway, I'll try to contact the author tomorrow, this work is really excellent." So now for the meeting, I will first assign a task to everyone, that is, everyone takes the manuscript home and reads it as soon as possible, and then writes me a review of the book. ”

Immediately following the evaluation just now, and then asking the seven people in the audience to quickly write a book review, Domingo's two words suddenly exploded in the conference room. After all, this is the work of a rookie writer, and it takes seven editors to read through the book reviews overnight, what is the situation!?

Of course, seeing the surprise of his colleagues, Domingo smiled: "I know the time is a bit tight, but think about it, what day will it be in two months?"

The editors looked at each other, and the editor-in-chief coldly asked a question that made them a little confused. Two months later, in July, it's not the right time to talk about the annual reading list of the New York Times and other publications.

"Two months later...... When was Mr. Blaney's "Youth My Love" published?

"The day the Lai Book Society and our bantam renew, Domingo, you're not going to publish this book with them, are you?"

Naturally, the editors were thinking from a professional point of view, and Brown was stumped by his boss's sudden question, and suddenly, it was Nidel who had an idea: "You mean the Los Angeles Olympics in July?"

"Oh yes, it must be the reason!?"

As soon as he heard this, Brown suddenly realized: "A Chinese-American female writer! And her address at the end of the manuscript is Los Angeles! Rice, are you planning to use the Chinese delegation to open up the Chinese market!?"

"Jurassic Park, this book is about Chinese Americans......? Isn't it? Can it have a market in that country?"

"Whether you can open it or not, the Olympics is indeed a good time to promote this book, so two months, you really need to hurry up!"

Seeing that the whole conference room suddenly became lively, Domingo sat in the chief and did not make a sound, he looked at the time, and now there was about half an hour left before the end of work.

"Why don't you go through the manuscript first and give me a preliminary suggestion. ”

Considering efficiency, Domingo said, "After all, since this Alice Wang is a rookie writer, it takes some time for the company to promote her work." There are only two months left until the Olympics, so everyone hurry up!"

At the request of the editor-in-chief, all seven people in the audience picked up the manuscript and read it, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that Domingo had something to say, they would have been tempted to turn it over. After all, Brown spent the whole day telling everyone about how wonderful this book is, and everyone is curious about it.

Brown read it again with great interest, and even Domingo himself, now that everyone had begun to read, picked up the manuscript again and read it.

There was silence in the conference room, the sound of turning pages was constantly ringing, and the speed of preliminary browsing was very fast, and by the time the minute hand was five minutes away from the end of work, most people had already finished reading the whole thing.

"This book is really very immersive!"

Blaney, the editor with five years of experience, was the first to say: "Unlike the science fiction novels on the market today that focus on space and the universe, this book is only chronologically set in the present, and everything else is exactly the same as modern society except for dinosaur cloning technology." I'm sure that compared to other similar books, this novel definitely has the strongest sense of substitution!"

"It's a sense of environmental immersion, to be exact. ”

Nidel was the second to speak: "I carefully read the author's description of the park control system, and the use of computers to control the whole park equipment is still a bit difficult now, but it is theoretically completely feasible. ”

And the author obviously knows computer technology very well, in order to avoid ordinary readers not being able to understand, but also attached a picture of the operation interface to the text. As for cloning technology, although the current level of technology is not good, it is also a technology that can be seen and touched, and compared with those cosmic science fiction novels that meet aliens, it is too close to life!"

The editors present all agreed with Nidel's comment that since the Soviet Union launched the first manned spacecraft to send cosmonaut Gagarin into space, almost the entire world of science fiction has been related to the universe. Similarly, as long as people hear the name of science fiction, they will not hesitate to think of the space field.

For example, the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and its adaptation, the first "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series published in 1979, and Asimov, who is recognized as a master of science fiction, concentrated on the creation of several "Galactic Empire" series in the fifties, which are the most typical examples.

As for the "Star Trek" series, which is a double hit of movies and TV series, Lucas's "Star Wars" series, and fanfiction are even more overwhelming!

In such a context, this rookie Chinese writer has taken a different path, simply writing about cloning technology, which is generally a very risky act.

But cloning objects is so different.

Dinosaur!

This writer actually brought the dinosaur up!

Although in the sixties and seventies, many people felt that mankind would definitely enter the interstellar age of lunar colonization as described in "2001: A Space Odyssey". But everyone also knows that ordinary people still don't have a chance to enter the universe after all.

But Jurassic Park is different!

It's 1989, and it's an island off the coast of Madagascar. By purchasing amber in large quantities, we obtained dinosaur blood from ancient mosquitoes, and used cloning technology and DNA embedding technology to recreate dinosaurs that had been extinct for 65 million years and then ......

"And then she actually thought of opening a theme park!"

Levins, who has eight years of experience in the industry, shouted excitedly: "Oh my God! Les, and everyone, don't be afraid of your jokes, if Madagascar really opens such a park, I will take out a ten-year loan, and I will go there with my wife and children for a week!"

"Yes, yes, the sense of substitution is too strong!"

Brown agreed: "It's cheaper to go to Jurassic Park for a week than to go into space. If someone invites me to go on a space trip, I won't be able to go even if I pay for it, and anyone can afford astronaut training?"

"Anyway, everyone just likes this book. “

Seeing the excitement of the whole table, Domingo looked at his watch, and then looked down at the end of the manuscript. On it, Alice Wang's phone number and address are clearly written.

"Now the question is, why didn't anyone answer the phone after I hung up for a day?"