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Miao Hong looked puzzled, he had been in the United States for many years, but he didn't know this word at all, did he have this word? Anyway, he had never used this word in his daily life.

Hearing this, Lin Han explained: "Hyperion is the name of a giant in Greek mythology, some translate it as Hyperion, and some are called Hyperion and Heparion, but we habitually call him Hyperion. He is the son of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and Ouranos, the god of the sky, one of the twelve Titans, and the father of the goddess of the sun, the goddess of the moon, and the goddess of dawn, but was sent to the hell of Tartarus by the gods of Olympus led by Zeus. ”

Greek mythology is not unfamiliar to most people, but they know almost all of the latest generation of Olympian gods, which are very foreign to Hyperion.

Miao Hong nodded as if he didn't understand, he was very puzzled, "Why does science fiction have anything to do with ancient Greek mythology?"

"You can go back and read the poem of the same name by John Keats, which will give you a little inspiration. I won't reveal it specifically!" Lin Han wanted this effect, he didn't want to describe the specific plot like this.

Keeping this word in mind, Miao Hong nodded, being able to know the type of Lin Han's new book first, which is something that many people can't envy!

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After Lin Han sent him out of the office, he was seriously relieved, in fact, he had also considered "Hyperion" as his new book for a long time.

This book was originally a science fiction novel written by American writer Dan Simmons, and the title of the book is based on the long poem of the same name by the British poet John Keats, which is known as an unsurpassable science fiction classic like the Galactic Empire, a veritable pinnacle of space opera, and a vast and magnificent interstellar epic!

Since its publication, this story full of authenticity and believability, facing difficult moral choices, has used unique laying techniques to sing the swan song of the universe for hundreds of millions of years, sweeping all heavyweight science fiction awards, from the Hugo Award to the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, the Spanish Science Fiction Award, the Japanese Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the French Universe Award, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Science Fiction Chronicle Award, and was selected by the "Locus Award" Voted one of the top 10 science fiction novels of 1990 and named one of the world's 100 greatest science fiction and fantasy works in 1997 and 2006!

The grandeur of "Hyperion" has conquered one reader after another, and even professional book reviews such as The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, Science, Trajectory, Asimov Science Fiction Magazine, Denver Post, and Los Angeles News can't help but praise it.

The novel's name comes from the long poem of the same name by the English poet John Keats, which deals with the themes of ancient Greek mythology, but Keats died before he could finish the poem!

The first three volumes of the Hyperion's long poem tell the story of the older generation of Titan gods, led by Satern, who were overthrown and expelled by their children, the Olympian gods led by Jupiter. The Titan gods have lost their power, and only the sun god Hyperion retains his rule and dignity, but the Titan gods do not give in, and they intend to restore!

In Dan Simmons's science fiction novel, he takes this long poem and incorporates it into the novel, which focuses on seven pilgrims who go to Hyperion's Tomb of Time together as the end of the world comes, and the universe is full of smoke, sharing stories of each other's past on the way.

The text consists of six stories, each telling about the connection between the pilgrim and the shrike, revealing the history of the earth for seven centuries, and revealing the relationship between the shrike and the future of mankind!

These six stories are: priest, soldier, poet, scholar, detective and consul, and the stories of different styles are soft in the same article, which has both the grandeur of science fiction classics and the poetry that science fiction works lack.

Its poetic structure and high literary attainments have been hailed as the science fiction work that is most likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature!

In fact, there is nothing new in its background setting, don't look at the title of the book is an ancient Greek myth called "Hyperion", but in fact, it is the conflict between the rising artificial intelligence and human beings in the future interstellar, and there are not 10,000 novels with such themes written in science fiction, but there are 8,000.

But the author creatively framed a magnificent world in such a novel that is interesting to read, expressed in the adventures of the characters, and expressed in the various macro conflicts in this world!

He constructs a future world that is forward-looking, detached and interconnected with real life, and accessible to readers.

When Lin Han was reading this book, he only had one feeling, that is, the vicissitudes of time, people are like something in time, thrown into the river of history, and there is not even a splash!

The narrative of "Hyperion" has an epic feel, placing the stories of small characters in a grand historical context, and the combination of the two is natural and traceless, seemingly independent stories, all interlocking. In the narrative of each story, the characteristics of the story itself and the characters in the story are clearly reflected, and the atmosphere of the independent story is rendered to the extreme, and then it switches to the different environments on the pilgrimage and the stories of the rest of the pilgrims, there is a strong sense of exoticism.

Lin Han originally fought reader books on Douban for the translation name of "Hyperion", because they added a prefix to the novel "When humans fight robots", and turned the science fiction epic into a funny book.

Later, in the face of strong protests from sci-fi fans, Reader Books made a compromise, not only terminating the publication plan of the "When Humans Fight Robots: Hyperion" series, but also spent two years repositioning and packaging it, removing the previous prefix.

If even serious sci-fi fans don't like it, who else can the novel sell to when it's published?

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Lin Han became very excited at the thought that this unknown science fiction classic was about to bloom with amazing charm in his own hands, this novel was only regarded as a myth in the circle of science fiction lovers, and readers other than this almost never heard of this book.

It is probably the most appropriate to describe it as a pearl covered with dust, "Hyperion" has really too few readers in China, it is obviously a novel of the same level as "The Three-Body Problem", but the readers are even 10,000 of "The Three-Body Problem".

Not a single one!

Now Lin Han's influence is extraordinary, and under his radiation, this novel will shine in a new world different from the earth!

Slowly reining in his complicated and excited mood, Lin Han began to recall the specific content to see if there was anything he needed to revise.

The reason why a masterpiece is a masterpiece is because it describes the content that is still fresh in the memory in a limited space, a pilgrimage, seven people from different backgrounds coming together, six thought-provoking stories, from the conversation of words to bring out the history of space opera for thousands of years after the great mistake of mankind, from the forced exile of mankind to the prosperity of the current era of hegemony, the prosperity of artificial intelligence, the long-distance transmission gate allows the Tethys River to flow through thousands of galaxies, Hawking drive, flashback technology, Paulson physiotherapy.

In addition, there is the opposition between the Destroyers (some of the interstellar wandering humans) and the overlord, the weakening of Christianity, the dependence of people on long-distance transmitters, or the dependence on the ring network manipulated by artificial intelligence, and the inexplicable importance of the core of artificial intelligence, the core of technology, to Hyperion!

These are all ideas that need to be thought through, and you can't do without any of them. What's more, this book is also a challenge for Lin Han, after all, he has written various types of science fiction, but he has not yet tried such a hazy poetic science fiction novel.

Previous Chinese translations have actually more or less omitted the poetic aspect, "Hyperion" is known as a long science fiction poem, its appearance has a significant impact on the meaning of science fiction, this is a science fiction born purely from poetry, very successful fusion of science fiction and poetry!

Don't look at Lin Han's ability to memorize a few modern poems, but it is very difficult for him to really write poems, writing poems and writing essays are not the same two types, Lin Han not only has to tell the story of this work well, but also has to inherit the form of combining poetry and writing.

This is the difficulty, this is enough to shake the literary world!

The most exciting and moving part of many previous science fiction masterpieces often lies in the philosophy of science fiction lenses, and Hyperion's poems are almost written in one go, vast through time and space, and the overall overview of human beings and history is nuanced.

This is reflected in the quotations, place names, and characters that can be found throughout the novel, and the original author's choice to pay homage to Keats's unfinished poem "Hyperion" clearly shows his confidence in continuing to write mythological poetry.

The story is set in the distant future, and even related to the ultimate fate of mankind, but the author's thinking and answers to these questions come from the deep understanding of the human existence in real life.

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This newly rented office is really not a good place to think about codewords, it just so happens that the matter between Lin Han and Miao Hong has been decided, so he got up and prepared to leave, and he also picked a place for codewords.

Chen Jiaxuan was outside telling the employees about the work, and when she saw Lin Han coming out, she walked over: "You decided to hand over our company to Miao Hong?"

Lin Han handed over the enterprise development plan that Miao Hong gave him to Chen Jiaxuan, "Aren't we making a decision before the interview? ”

"Okay, okay, you, it's not for business. Suspicious people don't need to be suspicious, since you have chosen Miao Hong, let him give full play to his role. I'll supervise it once in a while, and by the way, I'll be a laid-back broker for you. ”

Lin Han also ignored the gazes of the surrounding staff, he opened his mouth and asked, "Then I'm ready to go home, are you with me?"

Chen Jiaxuan looked at her watch in some surprise, "You didn't set a good example on the first day, how could you get ready to get off work at just after three o'clock." ”

"I have some inspiration in my head right now, and I'm going to go back and write a new book, and I have to write something in my own study. "This is probably Lin Han's quirk, obviously he has ideas in his head, but he has to write them in a specific place!

It has to be a quiet and comfortable environment, if there are people in the room, he will feel upset, and even the keyboard must be familiar.

""Resident Evil" has only been published for a week, why can't you be idle......" Chen Jiaxuan's beautiful eyes were horizontal, "Since you feel more idle, just deal with the establishment of a new company, don't be a hands-off shopkeeper." ”

Lin Han stood in the corridor, he shook his head and said, "Writing a novel is the right thing to do, I'm ready to surprise everyone." As long as I don't fail, the whole company won't go out of business!"

Chen Jiaxuan knew that she had found such a lazy man, and she also knew that what Lin Han said was correct, so she didn't dwell on anything anymore, but asked curiously about the new book.

With reservations about Miao Hong, Lin Han was much more open and honest with his girlfriend, he explained: "The title of the book has been determined to be called "Hyperion", and I plan to use the form of Weibo serialization, like "Inception", to update a chapter at intervals of two or three days or even longer, and listen to the opinions of readers. ”

As long as it is a good book, even if it is exposed on the Internet, it will not affect sales.

"Isn't Hyperion the name of a Greek god?

Chen Jiaxuan unexpectedly asked rhetorically, she actually knew the meaning of the word Hyperion! You must know that the names of Zeus, Athena, Apollo and other names are the familiar names of the Greek gods, and Hyperion is so niche that it can't be more niche!

Lin Han's eyes lit up, and he glanced at Chen Jiaxuan appreciatively, "This name is very out-of-the-way, and even many places in China translate it as Xu Perion, you actually know it." ”

"What's that, my favorite is ancient Greek mythology, I know those gods and heroes well, I don't know how many times I have read their stories, how can I not know this name!" Chen Jiaxuan was very proud, "You haven't said how this ancient Greek mythology has anything to do with science fiction, these are completely two different styles." ”

At this time, Lin Han explained very patiently, "This is space opera, it has a nickname called cosmic epic, as a branch of science fiction, it mainly emphasizes the drama of the story, not like hard science fiction that emphasizes scientific research, nor like soft science fiction that emphasizes inspiration." Generally speaking, this type of fiction is to put a realistic story directly in the background of space or extraterrestrial. The thoughts, words and deeds of the characters can be consistent with reality or history, and are used to allude to reality or historical organizations or social systems. For specifics, you can read Keats' unfinished poem of the same name. ”