Monday, the first day on the job, is going to be a day like the usual, Brown thought as he walked into the newsroom. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is Bantam Books in Manhattan, New York, and Brown has spent fifteen years as a veteran editor at three publishing houses, and even his son is now in elementary school. So, you can imagine how many wonderful novels he has read, and how many creative manuscripts he has browsed.

It's just that recently, the number of submissions to the company has dropped a lot, and even with the fact that he can't pick out good books, Brown hasn't had a performance for a long time.

"Lyanna, how many are there today, can you make up twenty copies?"

Before his butt was hot, the secretary Lyanna walked up to him with a cup of coffee: "There are only seven books in total, do you plan to read them now, or do you want to rest for a while?"

Brown picked up his coffee and frowned, "Seven, are you sure you're not talking about seventeen?"

"It's seven, Mr. Brown, I know what you mean, last Friday it was fifteen, but today it's down in half, yes. ”

Obviously talking about things that are not good for the company, Lyanna's expression is still calm: "But the weight of the express has not changed, they are all novels, if you read them in turn, it is estimated that the weight is about the same as fifteen copies." ”

Brown nodded, which is also a characteristic of the book publishing industry. Quantity does not determine quality, and a good quality work can definitely bring many times more revenue than an ordinary book.

Think of the Lord of the Rings, which has been selling well since the fifties, so much so that the propaganda slogan is arrogant: there are only two kinds of people in the world, those who have seen the Lord of the Rings, and those who are about to see it.

Therefore, with the rapid development of the book culture industry in the United States, the responsibility of editors is even more important. After all, if someone could dig up something of the Lord of the Rings, its value at the time alone would be comparable to a few bestsellers of the year!

"Hey, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack......"

Looking at the manuscript that Lyanna immediately sent him, Brown sighed helplessly.

"What are you sighing about? Lately under pressure?"

After putting down the manuscript, Lyanna was in no hurry to leave, and as she asked, she looked at the floor-to-ceiling window behind Brown.

In the bustling heart of Manhattan, with its jagged skyscrapers, pedestrians are nothing more than a swarm of busy ants at a height of 100 meters above the ground. This fashion is early in the morning, if it is changed to sunset time or even late at night, it will definitely give people a feeling of "empty and lonely", especially for outsiders.

"Oh, of course, Lyanna, look at the number of submissions lately. ”

Brown opened the courier and said, "Five! In just one month, in just one Manhattan, five publishing houses of considerable size have been registered! Look at their overwhelming publicity, look at the benefits they give to authors! Look at the decreasing number of us here!"

"Do you want to work more or less?"

Lyanna still stood in front of him calmly: "As for the competition of other publishing houses, that is the business that Chairman Speker should worry about, can you just do your own work? Could it be that Mr. Brown's monthly salary can no longer afford to pay the loan, and he is about to get divorced?"

“…… Lyanna, why did I persuade you to sign a ten-year contract in the first place?"

"Of course, you have the discerning eye to recognize my natural talent as a secretary. ”

After all the dismantling of the seven-point express, in the face of the seven heavy manuscripts, Brown waved his hand and said: "Forget it, forget it, you go out first, I still have to read the manuscript." ”

"So, shall I make you another cup of coffee, or the Starbucks across the street?"

"Hurry up and give me a walk outside the office. ”

After Lyanna left, Brown began to read the first manuscript slowly.

This is undoubtedly a novel, presumably set in Georgia, and after reading the first chapter, Brown knew it was nothing more than a plagiarism. It's too similar, except that the place of occurrence must be different, it's like a copy of "Gone with the Wind", Scarlett is replaced by Jasley, and Rhett becomes Rickard, and the author's research on spelling is very good.

"What rubbish, it's a shame that he can write hundreds of thousands of words!"

But this still can't get into Brown's eyes, after all, "Gone with the Wind" is a must-read in his school literature class, and as an editor who has been in the industry for fifteen years, if he can't even see this bit of plagiarism, then the whole bantam should go out of business.

Immediately after that, Brown began to read the next book manuscript, which was typically a mystery novel. According to the statement at the beginning of the story, a married woman is strangled to death in a closed room, and the story takes place in a small island resort mansion on a rainy night, and all the characters are limited to ten. What the reader, and the protagonist of the story, have to do is to find out the real culprit under these limited conditions.

"This is good, but isn't this kind of environment too coincidental? The island on a rainy night, the resort mansion, there are a total of ten people, and it is still a closed room case. Tsk, the realism is not good, but it is very interesting as a gimmick and setting...... Not true!"

After a quick reading, Brown flipped through dozens of pages in just ten minutes, and was stunned to see that the entire manuscript was followed by another work.

"Reasoning series? That's going to take a lot of experience to identify, so let's put it aside. ”

Thus, by the time Lyanna, the secretary, brought in for afternoon tea, Brown had read all seven manuscripts.

"It's just that this reasoning series has a bit of book value, and nothing else works. ”

Lazily leaning back in his chair, Brown sipped his coffee while looking out the window at the skyscrapers. It just so happened that a helicopter flew by in the distance, and it was a routine patrol of the New York Police Department.

Just then, Lyanna walked in again.

"Mr. Brown, the front desk has received another courier, also a manuscript. ”

Brown waved his hand, turned his chair to face the floor-to-ceiling window, and slowly held the coffee cup and said, "I'll read these seven books today, put away the ones first, and it's not too late to read them tomorrow." ”

"Mr. Brown?"

However, Lyanna had no intention of leaving, and still stood in place: "You just said this morning, why are there only seven, why are there so few, so I specially called FedEx and asked them to speed up the delivery of more packages." Mr. Brown, please don't spoil your subordinates' support for your work, okay?"

Brown's eyebrows twitched subconsciously, and even though he was now facing away from the door, he could clearly feel the cold aura behind him.

"That...... Lyanna, I'm just complaining casually, why did you call FedEx specifically......?

"Of course it's on you, how can employees like us who work hard for the company be embarrassed to ask the company to pay for an expedited fee?

"Ahem, ahem, ahem!"

"Ah, Mr. Brown, drink slowly, here's the paper, then here's the manuscript, and finally, here's the check for the expedited fee, with your name on letterhead, please keep it. ”

Looking at Lyanna's bevocative little steps as she went out, Brown sighed deeply.

"Well, I haven't eaten my Black Forest cake yet. ”

Seeing that the manuscript in front of him had a lot of words, he shook his head, pushed aside the sumptuous afternoon tea, and began to read this one.

Jurassic Park

Very...... Unclear.

This is how Brown felt when he saw the title of the book.

Of course he knew what the Jurassic was, the Triassic Jurassic, the Cretaceous, dinosaurs crawling everywhere, and of course he knew better what the park meant, the flowers, flowers, grass, and stone paths, and he still had the habit of going to Central Park for a walk every weekend.

But when the two words were put together, he was a little confused.

The dinosaurs of the Jurassic era built a park, and then everyone talked about falling in love, catching bees, and playing football...... Children's stories?

So why does it have to be the Jurassic era? Aren't the Tyrannosaurus rex of the Cretaceous more eye-catching?

Without dwelling too much on this issue, he turned to the first page of the text.

International Genetics Corporation Events

This should be the name of the title of the volume, and at a sudden glance, Brown was shocked again.

Genetic technology companies, and internationally!

No matter what the incident is, it feels really powerful!

At this moment, Brown immediately realized that this was probably a science fiction novel.

Subconsciously, he looked at the calendar around him, and he habitually did it whenever he came across a science fiction novel in his own review.

Monday, 28 May 1984.

Setting the date makes it easy to compare the level of technology in the book with the real world, isn't it?

Then, he immediately fell into the plot of the book.

According to the author's compilation, in the world of this novel, although it is still the eighties, biotechnology has developed at a staggering pace, ahead of its time. The whole world is full of genetic technology companies, biotechnology companies, etc., in short, the biotechnology revolution has exploded in this world.

A preface is just a few thousand words of the entire novel of hundreds of thousands of words, and the author expresses the situation succinctly. Then, at the end of the text, a more fascinating situation is explained.

One of the world's top biotech companies filed for bankruptcy protection, but the reason for the bankruptcy was not disclosed to the outside world, and everyone signed a non-disclosure agreement when communicating the situation internally.

Why doesn't the company disclose the reason for bankruptcy to the outside world?

Why do the relevant people sign a non-disclosure agreement?

This is because the reason is an incident that took place over two days in August 1989 on a remote island off the west coast of Costa Rica.

Without hesitation, Brown flipped to the first chapter of the text, and the oncoming headline made him immediately catch his breath.

"Beasts Devouring Man".