Chapter Twenty-Four: The Novel "The Wasteland" [Part I] {Collect!!}
25 August 2008.
Just last night, the 29th Olympic Games, a grand event that attracted worldwide attention, came to an end with the pride and regret of the Chinese people......
"Science Fiction World" magazine was founded in 1979, its predecessor was "Science Literature and Art" and "Strange Talk", since its inception nearly 30 years ago, "Science Fiction World" has experienced a circulation of only 700 copies of the desolation, and now the circulation of each issue has reached nearly 400,000, is currently the most influential professional science fiction publishing organization in China, is the world's largest circulation of science fiction magazine!
As a leading enterprise in China's professional publishing of science fiction books and periodicals, in the past 29 years, Science Fiction World has launched countless high-quality and highly collectible science fiction works, and cultivated a large number of outstanding science fiction writers, including Wang Jinkang, Liu Cixin, He Xi, etc.!
Among these science fiction writers, the most famous is Liu Cixin, because a few years later, this writer won the top award in the science fiction industry and the Hugo Award for Best Novel for his long science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem", becoming the first author in Asia to win this award!
Nine a.m. Science Fiction World Magazine.
Editor Liu Wei habitually turned on the computer, opened the work mailbox, and started working.
As a senior editor of the magazine, Liu Wei used to be a science fiction writer, and with the novels "Tower Town" and "Time Catcher", he once won the highest honor for domestic science fiction creation, the Galaxy Award!
After becoming the editor of the magazine, Liu Wei gradually stopped writing novels and devoted himself to his own work as an editor.
Although many old authors still like to submit manuscripts by hand, more and more new authors are more willing to send electronic manuscripts.
However, it must be admitted that the convenience of electronic submission makes the quality of the submissions received by mailbox uneven, although there are many submissions.
After all, Science Fiction World Magazine has been published for 29 years and has cultivated millions of science fiction readers, and in the past, submissions had to be mailed and handwritten manuscripts were also cumbersome, so many people could not implement them even if they had the desire to create.
Nowadays, e-mail is convenient, everyone has the desire to become a writer, millions of readers as long as 10% of them write and contribute, then the mailbox can be burst by a large number of manuscripts every day!
Although many of the works were of poor quality, Liu Wei clicked on every email to read the content of the manuscript.
When I finished reading a "junior high school student essay" and was about to read the next manuscript, the voice of receiving the manuscript suddenly came from the computer.
It can be seen that the author of the submission is still a little clever, and it is easy to attract the attention of the editor by choosing to submit the manuscript when the editor is at work.
Obviously, Liu Wei noticed that the most important thing about this submission is that this manuscript has a very attractive title: In 2030, an asteroid will enter the human eye without warning, ready to "visit" the earth, but human beings are very "euphemistic" to reject this uninvited guest, however, when human beings are happy, the disaster has just begun......
Seeing this introduction, Liu Wei secretly said in his heart, the asteroid "visited" the earth, as long as you have a little common sense, you know that the former earth overlord dinosaur was destroyed by an asteroid hitting the earth!
With this in mind, Liu Wei clicked on the document.
The first thing that catches your eye is the name of the novel "Wasteland", as well as the author's profile: Zhu Mingli, male, born on February 24, 1994, is a student studying in the fourth class of the third year of Xibin Middle School in Chendai Town, Jiangjin City, Fujian Province (second semester).
Well, it turned out that he was still a junior high school student, Liu Wei thought to himself, and it was not surprising that the novel was a third world war.
If the content is not bad, you can consider hiring! After all, a junior high school student's manuscript cannot be the same as an adult's review standards, and it can be appropriately relaxed.
"This book has a history of 50 days, revised once, and 300,000 words have been written.
Due to the special situation, I will send five electronic manuscripts to the front, middle and back chapters, and hope to be accepted!"
Yo, a very powerful middle school student, completing the creation of a 300,000-word novel in 50 days and revising it once, is not a small project! Liu Wei was surprised for a moment, and decided again in his heart that if the content of the novel was not bad, he would definitely choose to accept the novel.
As a junior high school student, I completed the creation of a 300,000-word novel in more than one month, which is very powerful!
Subsequently, the text of the novel entered Liu Wei's sight!
"Chapter 1, The End of the World
Stephen Hawking, the greatest physicist, cosmologist and thinker of our time, once said that in the next 1,000 years, the earth will be destroyed by a catastrophe, such as nuclear war or the greenhouse effect.
However, he added that if we can avoid catastrophe in the next two centuries, then we (humanity) will be safe, because by then we should have been able to move to space (200 years from now)!
The disasters that Hawking said include war, resource exhaustion, overpopulation, etc., he said that human genes carry the genetic code of "selfishness and greed", and human plundering of the earth is becoming more and more prosperous, and the earth's resources are being exhausted little by little......
Hawking is pessimistic, he believes that the earth will eventually go to extinction, and he is also optimistic because he believes that humanity will definitely find a way to escape from the earth before it perishes!
However, the brightest man of our time certainly did not expect that, although he predicted the extinction of mankind, he did not expect the end of the world to come so quickly!
Since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have destroyed the earth more drastically than in the past few thousand years, and the rapid development and progress of human society has come at the expense of the excessive consumption of the earth, the mother of all things.
Since entering the new world, the greenhouse effect and environmental pollution have become a new problem that all mankind needs to face together, although the slogan of environmental protection has been shouted for many years, but the results of human environmental governance will not be effective!
The greenhouse effect, the hole in the ozone layer, melting glaciers at the poles, rising sea levels, and increasingly frequent crustal movements have contributed to the deterioration of the Earth's environment.
Of course, these are not the fundamental reasons for the arrival of the end of the world, in 2030, an asteroid entered the human eye without warning, and astronomers around the world have not had time to give this beautiful asteroid a name with special significance, and they were shocked to find that the asteroid's trajectory is the earth.
If humans can't stop the asteroid's advance, humans will share the same fate as the dinosaurs.
After urgent consultations, governments around the world decided to smash the asteroid in space, and the task ultimately fell to China and the United States, which are the leading countries in aerospace technology.
Therefore, with the joint efforts of the two major powers and the attention of the people of the world, this asteroid, which poses a danger of extinction to mankind, has finally detonated in space, and the people of the whole world are happy for the rest of their lives after this catastrophe.
However, human beings did not rejoice for long, and soon there were terrorist events around the world, and an unknown virus began to circulate among humans, as long as it was infected with this virus, it would become the same as the zombies in the movie!
The planet, which was later called "Pandora", finally brought unimaginable and devastating disasters to mankind......