Li Wenyuan never knew that Lin Han's English was so strong, and he could directly translate the novel into English, and he had no time to sigh, "If only I had your level, I would translate my own book to save myself from being complained by foreign readers." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The novel "Out of the Solar System" was also translated by the publishing house, but the translator's level was limited, and a classic Chinese science fiction novel was translated down a notch, and then the reputation on the Internet was not as good as expected.

"I only translate because I know my own work, and when I write, I think about how to express it in English. We have always imported foreign science fiction classics, and this time I want to counterattack foreign countries. To what extent it can be achieved, we have to let the market test. ”

The English version of i, Robot didn't get any publicity, and if nothing else, it would be drowned in a sea of books on Amazon, depending on what could be done to change that.

Lin Han leaned on the sofa, he used to be an office worker, he was busy with work and life every day, and after work, he had to read novels, watch dramas, watch movies or something. Now that I've become a full-time writer, I've been bored all day long, I don't know what to do, and I'm a little flustered.

"Actually, you can become a translator just by translating novels for others, and God knows how much the science fiction world needs people like you. Whether it's English to Chinese or Chinese to English, the best translator is the one who can understand the essence of science fiction. ”

Li Wenyuan joked that this was indeed a good proposal, but Lin Han obviously did not agree, he could write more books, better than translating classics.

"Leave the translation or something to a specialized person to do, I just need to write my own novels myself, I can't manage so much, the master can help the world, I'm still far away!"

After the two of them talked and laughed for a while, they returned to the main topic. Li Wenyuan yawned, and he said, "Didn't you come to me to talk about the new book, you workaholic." We have to take a break after writing a book, and you're writing a new book less than a month after your book is on the market, and publishers must be very happy to see a prolific writer like you. ”

"I can't stay idle, I hope I'm busy. I'm not sure about the subject of my new book, but I want to write a serious sci-fi about space exploration, but I also want to try to depict a future society, but I can't decide what to write. ”

Lin Han has too many science fiction novels and science fiction movies in his head, these are the essence of the whole earth, any one of them can cause a sensation, but he doesn't know which one to take, there are too many selective works, this is the trouble of happiness.

Li Wenyuan touched his chin, and he asked puzzledly: "It's up to you, I can only say that the content that needs to be involved in describing the future society is too broad, and you have to shape it from many aspects such as politics, economy, culture, life, and society, and create a completely virtual world." It is very difficult to achieve this level of perfection, and it is slightly easier to describe space exploration. ”

"That's exactly what I'm worried about, if our country is flat, whether it's a country, human beings, or even mountains and rivers are flat figures, the isosceles triangle is the most humble, the archetype is the most noble, this is a world with only two dimensions, depicting such a country. ”

"Sounds interesting, but I suggest you write later, I'm more worried about your ability to control. Or you can start setting it up now and wait until it's perfect, and don't rush to start writing. Impatience is the last thing a writer wants to see, and any text must be finely crafted. ”

Li Wenyuan didn't know what was going on with Lin Han's "Flat Country", but he put forward suggestions based on his own experience, and if he wanted to build a huge and complete world view, it was obvious that a momentary inspiration alone could not support it to the end.

Lin Han nodded, he knew that this novel describing a strange country was very attractive, but he still saved it for later, "Then I'll write about space exploration, I don't want to write about your kind of high-tech battle in the starry sky, nor the thrilling plot of alien monsters, but about a person, a person who wants to go home." This may be a relatively hard science fiction, which requires too much scientific support, based on the reality of science and technology now or in the next few years, with little fantasy content, emphasizing the feasibility of the plot in our reality. ”

"The whole novel is a person?"

Li Wenyuan suddenly became curious, he wanted to know what was going on with the novel in Lin Han's mouth.

"You know the Phoenix Mars rover, right? I want to write a book about a modern version of Robinson Crusoe. How can an astronaut survive being left alone on the distant and inhospitable Mars, and return to Earth through the test to create a veritable Martian survival guide. ”

Lin Han's novel is to save Matt Damon 4.0 "The Martian", the film adapted from this novel has been a huge success at the box office and word of mouth, the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, and helped the actor Matt Damon win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and Oscar nomination.

The original author of this book is also an inspirational existence, spent 3 years writing this novel on his personal website, and then published it on Amazon at a price of 0.99 yuan per copy, and finally was bought by the traditional publisher Random House The copyright and film adaptation rights of "The Martian", from a newcomer author who no one cares about to a best-selling author who has swept the world.

The reason for choosing this book is very simple, this is not a cold novel, there is not much depth of thinking, and people do not need to understand the profound theory and world view, but from shallow to deep, it is very popular for everyone to popularize some qualifications.

The novel is full of cheerful comedy elements, more like a sketch of everyday life, with full respect for science, and a new and interesting plot all the time, and the story is very attractive in the first place, which is probably the most entertaining science fiction novel.

The story of "The Martian" is the space-like Robinson Crusoe, or "Life of Pi", in which the protagonist has to feed himself on a distant planet with no grass and find a way to return to Earth.

Readers can follow the author's thinking step by step, and see the protagonist use his ingenuity to grow potatoes to solve food and clothing, transform various machines to obtain water resources, explore Mars step by step and establish space chat channels, and mankind all over the world can see his comparison and curse.

The most important thing is that this is probably the most in-depth science fiction novel, there are no formulas or theories that you can't understand, it's all some easy-to-understand, smooth and comfortable narratives, some people say it's like science fiction is a little fresh.

It's a straightforward and simple story, but it's filled with a lot of real attacks, and in the novel, all kinds of physics, astronomy, chemistry, and agronomy are admired by professionals in related fields.

After doing a lot of scientific research and deduction, NASA engineers and scientists were impressed by the "hardness" shown in this book, and many details involved in the novel, such as fuel production, potato cultivation, oxygen production, etc., were calculated in detail, and even the author wrote a program to calculate the flight trajectory of the Hermes.

This kind of down-to-earth novel is completely the best popular science text, which is considered the hardest science fiction novel after 2000, and it is also an extremely entertaining science fiction movie, which is convenient for Lin Han to develop the copyright of the novel.

After listening to Lin Han's explanation, Li Wenyuan couldn't find the rest of the words to describe it except for two exclamations, "I don't know what to say, this idea is so good, is it called "Mars Survival Guide"?"

"No, it's called The Martian!"