Chapter 4: The Village Teacher
After thinking about it carefully, Lin Han began to quickly sift through it in his mind, this time the number of words required was relatively small, and the collection should be short stories.
It's not easy to create a sci-fi world with just one or two thousand words, but fortunately, he has read many magazines before, and now he has a lot to choose from.
First of all, it must be a high-quality novel, but not the top-notch, so that the copyright is taken away so that it doesn't suffer too much. If the quality is too low to even pass the submission, it will be a shame.
After choosing, he finally set his goal on the novel "The Country Teacher", which is not a few words, just 20,000 words, but the structure is very rigorous, and it is known as the best science fiction short story of 2001.
"Country Teacher" is one of the masterpieces of the famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin, there is no doubt that Liu is the leading figure of Chinese science fiction, he has won a lot of honors, the Galaxy Award is like his back garden, before Lin Han crossed over, he also won the famous Hugo Award issued by the World Science Fiction Association, nominated for the American Nebula Award, and his books sell well at home and abroad.
Lin Han has read this novel more than once, and every time he reads it, he feels tears, in addition to the content of science fiction, this is also an article that reflects the reality of education, and has the most incredible artistic conception in the history of Chinese science fiction.
The general content of the article is that a rural teacher dedicated his life to the small village, and before he died, he explained Newton's three laws to his students.
After the end of the interstellar war between carbon-based life and silicon-based life, carbon-based life was won, and the leader of carbon-based life decided to set up a vacuum zone in the universe to prevent the restoration of silicon-based life. Before setting up the vacuum zone, it is necessary to detect the civilization level of planetary lifeforms, and only clean up the low-level civilizations.
When this group of aliens came to Earth, they selected these students from the small village, and the students shouted loudly the laws that the teacher taught before he died, and passed the test.
All in all, it was this village teacher and a group of children who saved the planet. There are two threads in the novel, one is the protagonist Li Baoku, and the other is the distant galactic interstellar war.
Li Baoku was a hard-working man who grew up with the death of his parents when he was three years old and was raised by another village teacher, who died for helping him stop a hungry wolf.
Li Baoku, who survived, resolutely returned to the countryside from the outside world, inherited the position of rural teacher, and began to teach all subjects to students.
But Li Baoku, who unfortunately suffered from esophageal cancer, could only teach the children one last lesson, Lin Han slowly recalled, and the content of these tens of thousands of words appeared in his brain word for word, and it was terrifyingly clear.
Lin Han sat in front of the computer, his hands were rapidly tapping on the keyboard, choosing this novel to participate in the essay competition is for the ranking, if even the quality of science fiction of "The Country Teacher" is not recognized, then he needs to reconsider his positioning.
Many times, it doesn't take too many fancy skills to write a novel, an essay, a short poem, just a good point.
What surprised Lin Han the most about this "Country Teacher" was the structure, the overall structure was very clear, and a lot of contrasting writing was used to highlight the key points.
The smallness of the village contrasts with the size of the planet, but on the other hand, the smallness of the earth contrasts with the power of carbon-based life.
There are a lot of contrasts in the short novel, and the story of a rural teacher is common, and such reports are rare, but when placed in the context of the universe, after adding the content of science fiction, it has a somewhat magical effect.
In this novel, jumping beyond the earth to see humanity and looking at oneself from a lofty perspective is something that only science fiction can do.
If you want to become famous in the science fiction world, you must have your own unique memory points, and although there are many types of science fiction novels, they must be eye-catching, and "The Country Teacher" has such a strength that it can attract widespread attention and discussion.
Using this novel to lay the foundation, Lin Han can completely do it without a hit, and the momentum of development is amazing.
He has a complete novel in his head, and he doesn't need to modify it much by tapping the keyboard, so he writes quite quickly, and by the way, he also carefully modifies the dialogue of the characters to make them more in line with their respective identities.
Lin Han's family is in the countryside, he grew up in a rural primary school, there are slightly more students in the class than in the novel, but since he graduated from primary school two years later, the school has been demolished.
Therefore, I have a deep understanding of this kind of life, and I can give a dialogue that fits the character's personality and the surrounding environment.
Of course, punctuation is also more important, this is the place that reflects the rigor and professionalism of the author, if you don't even know how to use punctuation, it is difficult for people to believe that he can write a good article.
The sound of crackling keyboard tapping was endless, and Lin Han's hand speed was not fast, but it was better than not thinking, so he could still write more than 3,000 words in an hour.
Every two hours he got up from his chair and moved his neck and eyes, and then continued to code, immersing himself in it, and after about six or seven hours, he finally wrote the novel.
Save the document, review it word by word, see if there are any typos, and only open the email after confirming that it is correct, and send it to the submission email published by Science Fiction World magazine, the only thing Lin Han can do is to wait patiently, and it will not be a matter of just a few days if the manuscript is not completed.
Now he is glad that he did not choose to become an online writer, otherwise it would be a huge torture to keep writing every day. If you choose to be a traditional writer, you can take a long break after writing a book, and write when you are inspired, and put it aside if you are not inspired, as long as you are not urged by the editor.
Drinking coffee, writing from afternoon to evening, Lin Han moved his neck, he felt that his life seemed to be quite colorful, in order to better understand the world, he turned on the somewhat old computer, and began to search for his name.
After all, the original owner is also a figure in the entertainment industry, although he is no longer the same, but through the media to understand the experience of the original owner, this experience is very subtle.
In the past, Lin Han was just an ordinary office worker, commuting to and from work on time every day, and in his spare time, he worked hard to develop his little hobbies, read science fiction novels, and discuss and share with some like-minded friends.
I never thought that I would become a fallen genius director when I woke up, and I am not used to becoming a celebrity.
This is a very serious matter, but it soon turns out that it is just thinking too much.
Relive a lifetime, in this life, let him be a cheesy literary and artistic youth.