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Lin Han, the person concerned, was made to cry and laugh, and it would be troublesome if he really offended the People's Daily, but he couldn't blame these lovely fans who stood up for themselves.

The twists and turns of this incident were simply dazzling, and when his friends were still concerned about whether the stampede was injured or not, they found that Lin Han was criticized by name.

Li Wenyuan commented on QQ: "You really don't stop going anywhere, you can be watched by onlookers when you participate in an exhibition, and you will be named by the official media." ”

"Blame me?" Lin Han replied with a particularly innocent expression.

"It's not a matter of a day or two that we're being discriminated against in science fiction. As long as it is a commercial fiction genre, it has been attacked more or less, you are okay, those martial arts and fantasy are directly branded with the name of instigating violence, and they are often dragged out and whipped. ”

Lin Han is also aware of such a realistic situation, "There are also plots of fighting and killing in science fiction novels, but existence is reasonable, anyway, it is very unpleasant." ”

He was holding his stomach and wanted to vent with the group of literati and the media who criticized him, when a transatlantic phone call hit his mobile phone.

Alex, the editor of Penguin Publishing Group, actually called, maybe it was just afternoon in the UK.

"Hey Lin, this is Alex, how are you doing today?" The voice with a London accent came to Lin Han clearly.

Lin Han didn't understand the editor's intention, but just said truthfully: "To be honest, it's not a very good, very dramatic day. ”

Alex immediately laughed heartily, "Then get ready, you'll be in a good mood soon." Congratulations, my friend, your novel "I, Robot" has been nominated for this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is currently in fourth place with 16% of the votes cast in the nomination round. And your world's shortest science fiction novel, The Last Earthling, was shortlisted for Best Short Story! ”

"Really?" Lin Han instantly stood up from the computer chair, "This is indeed good news, I never thought I would be nominated. You must have done a lot of work in there, right? ”

"I, Robot" and "The Martian" were both handed over to Penguin Publishing Group for publishing operations, although the last earthling was published in the British Daily Mirror, but it should not be difficult to help sign up.

"You'd be wrong. We're just paying to sign you up for a membership so you can submit your work. If you don't even make it through the nomination round, we won't do any PR for you. ”

Nomination depends on strength, and winning awards depends on luck, probably this is the truth.

The Hugo Awards are a two-round voting system, all members of the World Science Fiction Association can vote, the first round is the nomination round, each member can choose five nominations for each individual award, and the five works with the most nomination votes for each award will enter the second round of voting.

In the second round, each member will rank the shortlisted entries for each individual category, and the final winning entries will be determined according to the total number of votes.

Although the Hugo Awards are nominally a worldwide award, given that the majority of voting members are Americans, the Hugo Awards are primarily for works in English or translated into English.

In the previous life, the first part of "The Three-Body Problem" in Lin Han's memory was also translated into English before winning the award, and another female science fiction writer's "Beijing Folding" also entered the competition for the award with the help of translation.

"It's a pity that The Martian didn't make it to this list, it was released for so long that the vast majority of members didn't read the book. But there's still a chance next year, and you've written great! Alex never imagined that a Chinese writer would be nominated for two different Hugo Awards.

Lin Han couldn't help but ask at this time: "Now that the news is out?" ”

"Not yet, but our sources are absolutely reliable, you can celebrate first! The awards will be presented next Friday night, and the organizing committee will definitely send you an invitation letter to confirm the itinerary as soon as possible. ”

Taking a deep breath, Lin Han tried his best to suppress his excitement, and he said happily: "Thank you for informing me, I can't wait to jump just now." ”

"You deserve it, see you in America next week, and now go celebrate!"

Penguin Publishers' promoters have been working it, and a science fiction novel nominated for a Hugo Award is as much a recognition as a movie being nominated for an Oscar.

When this news is announced, the originally declining sales will inevitably stimulate a wave, so the collaboration of various departments must be done well.

Alex's phone call was about an hour faster than the news came out, and Lin Han was restless during the hour, and he couldn't feel at ease if he didn't see the list given by the official webpage.

After refreshing the official website of the World Science Fiction Association for a long time, the "2017 Hugo Award Nomination List" was finally refreshed belatedly, and the first thing Lin Han did was to open it and search for his book title.

Best Novel: "Cosmic Elegy", "Planet Forever Night", "I, Robot", "Master of Battleships", "Big Boy Don't Cry"

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Best short stories: "The Seventh Day", "Reynolds on Foot", "In Search of Earth", "Butterfly in the Sun", "The Last Earthling"!

Sure enough, as Alex said, Lin Han's two books entered the list of Hugo Award nominees respectively, but they were relatively low!

This ranking is based on the percentage of votes received in the nomination round, and without insiders, others will not be able to see what percentage it is.

“Yes！”

Lin Han shook his fists vigorously in celebration, being nominated for the Hugo Award is the best response to those criticisms!

Sure enough, after the World Science Fiction Association announced the list of nominations, the American media was the first to report it, and Lin Han was a name that they could not have crossed.

It is a miracle that a foreign writer has been nominated for two awards in the backyard of American science fiction writers!

"Hugo Award Nominations Announced, Chinese Writers Become the Biggest Winners"

"Science fiction from the East, Lin Han sets a new record for Asian science fiction"

……

The Chinese media also saw the news, and Phoenix Culture, which reacted the fastest: "Lin Han won two nominations for the Hugo Award, and Chinese science fiction won the world's attention!" ”

The media, which is related to books and culture, reported the news in turn, and they couldn't suppress it.

Douban Reading: "Congratulations to @Lin Han, "I, Robot" and "The Last Earthling" have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and the awards will be announced next Friday, so stay tuned! ”

Amazon Online Bookstore: "Hugo Award Nominated Books Download Highlights [link] Congratulations to Lin Han for becoming the first Chinese science fiction writer to be nominated"

And in the comments under these Weibo posts, they are all @People's Daily@Zhou Wenyuan@Southern Weekly, which have criticized Lin Han's Weibo accounts, and netizens feel sorry for these people.

Did the World Science Fiction Association communicate with Lin Han and release the nomination at this time, which made those people slap and hurt so much!

Zhou Wenyuan, who had a little face, had deleted the content on his blog, while the editor of the People's Daily continued to pretend to be cold, pretending that there was nothing, and he couldn't bow his head anyway. (To be continued.) )