As of 9 o'clock this morning, a total of 817 manuscripts of various types have been received for this year's Galaxy Award essays, and a total of 788 short stories are valid for the competition, except for those that do not meet the conditions for participation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWe need to select one grand prize, two first prizes and two second and third prizes in three days, the time is tight, I hope you forgive me!"

Tao Hu, the editor-in-chief of "Science Fiction World" magazine, opened his mouth and said that he was also the person in charge of the Galaxy Award essay, and the chairman of the jury here was Tong Yonglie, and 12 other people served as judges.

Although there are many science fiction gods who have come over in advance, not everyone can serve as a judge, Lin Han is the youngest and least qualified one among the judges.

Although some of the other writers who were not able to serve as judges were a little dissatisfied, they were not qualified to say anything, at most they muttered twice in their hearts that they were not in order, who made their sales, awards, and reputation inferior to others!

It was the first time for Lin Han to participate in such a jury activity, and he felt that everything was very fresh, so he was listening attentively to Tao Hu's speech, ignoring the scrutiny of others.

"Friends who are familiar with the Galaxy Award essay collection can know that the number of participants in our last essay contest was less than 200, and this year there are more than 700 articles, which can be said to be growing rapidly. However, there are so many entries that are mixed, and I hope you can treat each novel with a fair, just and open attitude. It's not the first time we've been judges, so you can ask each other any questions. ”

The more than 700 essays were randomly divided among the 12 judges, which means that each person had to read 65 novels in three days, and then rank their respective merits and disadvantages, and then cross-check each other, so as not to slip through the net or be negligent.

In this way, each judge selects the best novel and then summarizes it for discussion, which is really a lot of work.

Many people think that reading books is a very enjoyable thing, but reading so many books in a short period of time will become torture, Lin Han secretly sighed, he said to Li Wenyuan on the side: "If you read so many novels in three days, if your eyes are not blind, then your head must be a mess, can't you drag on the time a little longer?"

"Are you so idle when everyone is so idle? It's not so easy to coordinate the time of so many judges, everyone has their own things to do, and the workload in previous years was much smaller. Look at it well, lest others deliberately trouble you. ”

Lin Han looked at the laptop in front of him, he resignedly clicked on a document, and then read it slowly, the first time was to read through the whole text at a glance and ten lines, and then read it carefully after having a general impression, to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the novel.

The strength of new authors is uneven, and most of the submissions are actually extremely average, so Lin Han feels that many novels are simply spicy, and it is really difficult to find an excellent short story!

In line with the principle of being responsible to the contestants, Lin Han watched very carefully, and looked at the computer for a long time, only a little more relaxed when drinking water and going to the toilet.

The first morning passed, and the judges walked out of the room almost all with red eyes, and they took advantage of the lunch time to communicate with each other.

"How many have you read?"

"It's less than ten, and what kind of ghost is written here, I feel dizzy when I see it. I didn't have a single one, why is the level of participants so low!"

Li Wenyuan grabbed Lin Han, "Do you have any eye-catching works over there?"

Lin Han yawned, he nodded and said: "There is a novel called "The Year of the Great Wilderness", this author has never heard of it, but his pen is very skillful and sharp, and he is by no means a newcomer. The details of the novel are very full, the picture sense is also good, and it is very vivid, creating the feeling of a Hollywood disaster blockbuster, which is a bit creepy. ”

"The author's name may have been transferred from the rest of the categories. "Li Wenyuan is interested, and the science fiction novel that can make Lin Han feel good must have its uniqueness.

"It seems to be called Xingzen, I'll search for it. Lin Han moved his fingers to type on his mobile phone, and then found that this was really not a newcomer, "It turned out that I was writing online novels, no wonder my pen is very skillful, my imagination is good enough, and my narrative ability is quite good." ”

They took a short break and then went back to reading, and there were so many novels waiting to be read, and they had to finish their reading by the allotted time, after all, there was still a time to cross-review.

Tong Yonglie came to Lin Han's seat, and he asked, "Xiaolin, do you find any good seedlings here?" ”

"Tong Lao, for the time being, this "Year of the Great Wilderness" is not bad, you can take a look, this author's writing is very good, and it can be posted directly in the magazine. ”

Seeing that he was hunting, Tong Yonglie directly used his identity as the chairman of the jury to find out this novel, and read it silently, very seriously.

In the first few days, everyone was very harmonious, but when it came to cross-review, there were disputes, and everyone's reading preferences were different, and the things they considered were different.

So when Lin Han exchanged the evaluation of his group of contestants with another older writer, Gao Fei, he found that the two of them had a very big difference.

"The Year of the Great Wilderness", which was originally pinned on by Lin Han, only got a medium evaluation on Gao Fei's side, but another article was put in the special class by him.

"Mr. Gao, there seem to be a lot of flaws in this "Antarctic Eternal Night", some of the settings in it have appeared in other novels, and they have not broken free from the shackles, and they have not tried to depict some scenes of eternal night. I really didn't find any bright spots in it. ”

Gao Fei is a college student in the 90s of the last century, and he is considered a veteran in the science fiction circle, he explained: "The book 'Antarctic Eternal Night' reminds me of the writing technique of the golden age of science fiction in the 80s. ”

Lin Han thought that this was just a difference caused by simple aesthetic differences, and he didn't care much about it, and said directly: "Then let's leave it to Tong Lao to decide, this difference is a bit big." ”

"Xiaolin, how about you give me a face? This "Antarctic Eternal Night" was written by my nephew, and I gave some guidance. He has more potential in science fiction, and if he can win this award, his status as a virgin novel will be higher. I don't expect him to be as good as you, but it shouldn't be a problem to be in the middle and upper reaches. ”

This time it was Lin Han's turn to be dumbfounded, no wonder Gao Fei kept opening his eyes and talking nonsense, it turned out that it was written by his relatives. But this level is really not very good, it's all written by others, the plot is a bit sloppy, and nothing is clear in the 20,000 words.

If he recommends the quota with a clear conscience, Lin Han will become his Bole, and others will know that it was Lin Han who recommended this book to win the award, and Lin Han's name will also be engraved on the pillar of shame!

Nowadays, the awards have basically been reduced to a tool for seniority and backdoor relations, either to give all the awards to famous and contributing old writers, or to give awards to those who are not famous, have no strength, or have connections.

The dispute between the two of them was loud, but the people around them looked commonplace, almost no one thought there was a problem with this, anyway, the prize money was not paid by the judges, and besides, it was normal to take care of each other.

Li Wenyuan knew that Lin Han might be a little indignant when he was young and vigorous, so he persuaded: "If you don't want to recommend this book, leave it to Tong Lao, and the chairman will ask for everyone's opinions." ”

This is obviously to make Lin Han take a step back and hand over his reputation to the entire jury to take the blame, but Lin Han shook his head, "The Galaxy Award essay competition is not only to discover new writers, but also to guide the future creative trend of our Chinese science fiction novels. I can't control other groups, but in my group, this can't happen. This "Antarctic Eternal Night" is pieced together, and it will be the kind that my group was directly eliminated. There is only one book I recommend, and that is "The Year of the Great Wilderness"!"

The rest of the people frowned, this is simply not according to common sense, a circle of people look up and don't look down, is it really good to tear it so hard?

Gao Fei was also angry with Lin Han's tough attitude, he never thought that Lin Han would refuse his proposal, this was no loss to Lin Han at all, not to mention that a newcomer actually quarreled with him.

He pointed at Lin Han with his finger, "Don't think that you have written two best-selling books and no one is in your sights, you were not born when I wrote the novel! I have written more novels than you have read! It is not your turn to speak yet, you better know what you are doing." ”

Lin Han looked around, he didn't expect the science fiction literary circle to be so corrupt, he originally thought that this was a young and energetic literary group, but it turned out to be guarded by a group of old-fashioned old men.

What they care about is not discovering new talents, but how to benefit themselves, not the healthy development of the entire science fiction circle, but how to ensure that their status is not shaken.

Breaking this unspoken rule and putting it on the bright side, Lin Han felt very tired, even if he tried hard, with such a group of people holding him back, he would not be able to create a new world.

"Teacher Gao, are you worthy of your duties as a judge? Don't put the set you are used to on me, I will not agree. It's better not to invite me to be a judge in the future, otherwise I won't open the back door every time, I have no shady here!"

Lin Han didn't lose at all in terms of momentum, he didn't expect Gao Fei's hand to be so long, no wonder he had to choose himself when he crossed each other before.

"You don't regret this decision. Gao Fei said hatefully, he didn't want to just forget it, and he couldn't just forget it, he couldn't put it in front of everyone's eyes! )