The novel "The Martian" tells the story of the Americans who have landed on Mars around 2035, and the protagonist participates in the third Ares program.

As one of the astronauts of the Ares 3 program, the protagonist is a botanist and engineer, and the astronauts are on a mission on the surface of Mars, encountering a solar storm that is almost impossible to occur on Mars, and the protagonist is accidentally left on Mars when returning to Mars to evacuate the vehicle.

In order to survive on Mars, the protagonist uses his professional knowledge to grow potatoes and make water in the inhabitation capsule, and although he lives in an extreme environment, he does not give up hope of survival, and finally gets in touch with the earth, and finally returns to the earth safely after many efforts.

When Zhu Mingli first wanted to write this novel, he was actually planning to change the protagonist to Chinese and the China Space Agency, but think about the great success of the Shenzhou-7 manned spacecraft this year, and China became the third country in the world to independently carry out space missions.

And Zhu Mingli also knows that China has developed rapidly in the aerospace industry in the following years, and the Tiangong-2 space test station has also been very successful, but if you want to write in your book that the Chinese will have the strength to land on Mars around 2030, it is obviously not comparable to the other people's Emeriken.

So Zhu Mingli finally decided to write NASA, but Zhu Mingli was still a little ambitious.

The book "The Martian" has a subtitle in Zhu Mingli's pen: The story of the occupation of Mars after the Chinese's vegetable planting technology conquered the Ivy League area in the United States and dominated the African continent!

That's right, in Zhu Mingli's pen, the protagonist Mark Watney has a Chinese background, and the protagonist's grandmother is Chinese, who went to the United States to study and marry an American in the 80s.

Grandma grows vegetables in the backyard of the house, and the protagonist has a deep relationship with his grandmother, and when he was very young, he and his grandmother took care of vegetables in the vegetable field, and the protagonist also followed his grandmother to learn Chinese kung fu and exercise a strong physique.

The protagonist will become a botanist because he was influenced by his grandmother since childhood.

After graduating from university, the protagonist went to various parts of the world to conduct research work, and found that there are many vegetable fields developed by Chinese people in many places with harsh environments, and because the protagonist is Chinese, he can communicate well with Chinese people who grow vegetables around the world, so he has learned a lot of techniques and soil methods for growing plants in extreme environments.

The protagonist combines the practical operation and scientific theories of Chinese farmers, publishes many valuable deeds, and becomes a well-known botanist, so he is selected by NASA to become one of the candidates for the Ares 3 program, and because of his strong physique trained in martial arts since childhood, he stands out among the candidates.

In the original novel, the protagonist is finally supplied by a rocket thruster provided by the China Space Administration for observing the sun, and is able to return to Earth safely.

Zhu Mingli planned to write the thrusters as the thrusters in China's Mars landing plan, which was originally planned for the Chinese space agency to carry out the Mars landing plan in the next year, but after contributing rocket thrusters, China's Mars landing plan had to be postponed for two years.

For this reason, NASA must bring a Chinese astronaut with it when Ares 4 lands on Mars. In addition, in the original version, there are several Chinese engineers who play a very important role in rescuing the protagonist.

Undoubtedly, in Zhu Mingli's version of "The Martian", the influence of the Chinese and Chinese in it has become greater.

Of course, Zhu Mingli will not use special writing to explain these news, but only take the way of complaining and revealing this information piecemeal.

The novel "The Martian", different from "Wasteland", is really a very hard science fiction novel, originally Zhu Mingli thought that he had prepared for two months and collected a lot of information, and it should not be difficult to write, but when Zhu Mingli really started writing, he found that sometimes he still didn't know how to continue writing.

For this reason, Zhu Mingli had to continue to check the information while writing, and he must thank the developed network, and many things can be found with a single click of Baidu.

Zhu Mingli originally thought that he would only need one or two weeks to finish this novel when the information was complete, but because he still had to check the information and write at the same time, the speed was much slower.

According to Zhu Mingli's memory, there are a total of 26 chapters in the original novel, and the content of each chapter is written according to the Martian diary.

Except for weekends, Zhu Mingli can only use the computer for an hour a day the rest of the time, and there is no way, the hole he dug himself has to be filled with tears, so an hour of writing time every night makes Zhu Mingli feel tormented when he first started writing online novels.

Most of November passed in Zhu Mingli's tormented writing of novels, and the novel was finally half completed.

Zhu Mingli's editor Liu Wei has been paying attention to the writing speed of "The Martian", and Zhu Mingli originally wanted to send it to him after writing the whole book, but Liu Wei couldn't help but call him three times after reading a beginning.

After thinking about it, Zhu Mingli decided to send him the content of the 13 chapters he had written, and asked Liu Wei to help check if he needed to revise it, and then find a translator to start translating it into English for him.

In fact, Liu Wei was a little unimpressed with Zhu Mingli's plan, and even thought that Zhu Mingli was a little whimsical, but seeing Zhu Mingli's insistence, he finally agreed to Zhu Mingli's request.

But before that, Liu Wei needs a sneak peek.

The reason why Liu Wei paid so much attention to this novel is because the novel "The Martian" is very novel and bold, and because when he helped Zhu Mingli collect information, it involved a lot of professional knowledge.

This made Liu Wei very worried, whether Zhu Mingli, who was just a junior high school student, had the ability to control such a "hard" science fiction novel!

When Liu Wei read the first thirteen chapters sent to him by Zhu Mingli, Liu Wei was shocked, Zhu Mingli himself felt that the writing was not very smooth, and the writing was not good, but in Liu Wei's eyes as a professional editor, this novel has been written very wonderfully.

In particular, the novel is written in the first person situation of the protagonist Mars Diary, so that readers can feel the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the protagonist in the book more subjectively, especially in the book, sometimes there will be scolding words from time to time, Liu Wei felt inappropriate at first, but after letting Liu Wei read some content, especially let him bring it into the perspective of the protagonist to see the problem, and found that if it was him, let alone scold his mother, he collapsed directly!

After reading the content of the novel, Liu Wei suddenly felt that Zhu Mingli's plan might not be whimsical, maybe it might really be feasible! He began to have some expectations for Zhu Mingli's plan!

As the most authoritative science fiction magazine in China and the world's largest circulation science fiction magazine, it is really not too simple to find someone who can translate novels, let alone English, even if it is translated into German and French.

In the process of stumbling and writing a book, Zhu Mingli also easily completed the midterm exam