Chapter 26: A Masterpiece [Asking for Recommendation Votes]
After closing the door, Lin Han couldn't help but sigh, his new book plan must be put on the agenda immediately, there is only one week left before the first one, and he must get the manuscript fee within this week to solve the financial crisis.
Although "Country Teacher" previously received more than 8,000 yuan in after-tax manuscript fees, it is not enough to pay rent, let alone ordinary life, making money is imminent.
The rent for three months is 9,000, and the water and electricity have to spend a sum of money, more than 1,200 gas bills, Lin Han broke his fingers and sighed, sure enough, a penny is difficult to beat a hero.
Half an hour ago, I was still looking forward to what kind of article I could use to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, but now I have to face the reality and solve the most troublesome thing at present.
Making money is not difficult for writers, especially for Lin Han, who has a huge amount of science fiction in his head, and it is easy to write new works.
If you publish a short story, it will not be conducive to accumulating popularity, and it will be very difficult to publish it, so how can a 20,000-word novel be published? Unless a collection of short stories is published in the future, it will certainly not be possible for "The Village Teacher" to be printed and sold alone.
Serializing a novel on "Science Fiction World" and then printing and publishing the full text at the same time seems to be the best choice, which can not only ensure exposure, but also get your first published book.
Fortunately, now that he has broken away from the title of science fiction newcomer, with Zhuyu of "The Country Teacher" in front, presumably the later novel should be able to get a good manuscript fee, at least not five hundred words per thousand.
In fact, there are only a few writers in China who can write science fiction novels to support themselves, and there is a lack of influential works and writers.
This is not to say that Chinese science fiction writers don't have money, but that money is generally not earned from science fiction. China's science fiction writers have the highest education of all writers, many of whom have doctorates and master's degrees, have good jobs and salaries, and even have their own bosses.
If you want to rely on novel royalties to support yourself, science fiction writers need to work harder, there are tens of thousands of writers in the country, but there are more than 30 science fiction writers, and there are thousands of science fiction writers in the United States.
Although the situation is improving, novelists can now take on some jobs in addition to the manuscript fees and royalties for their works, such as writing some film and television planning, script planning, or writing scripts for games.
Now that Lin Han has Chen Jiaxuan as an agent, he doesn't have to go to the magazine to submit articles to the magazine, and at the same time, he can also allow professionals to fight for more benefits for themselves.
Since it is a debut novel that is going to be published, ordinary quality novels can't satisfy Lin Han's ideas at all, what he wants is a blockbuster, although "The Country Teacher" is now popular in the eyes of science fiction fans, but it is still not as good as a romance or palace fighting essay in the general environment.
What kind of novels can leave their mark on the history of literature?
This must be the kind of novel with epoch-making effect, so that future generations will always remember it, no matter how far science fiction develops, they will not forget themselves.
After all, in the genre of science fiction, laws, laws, and science and technology are the most likely to become obsolete, so why can readers follow another principle as before after seeing the complex matrix world and overlooking the Galactic Empire for 100,000 light years?
Lin Han thought about it seriously, and then his eyes lit up, he had a goal!
In the novels he has read before, there are many descriptions of robots and artificial intelligence, but most of them are not systematic, and each author has his own views and ideas, and there is no unified standard.
On the earth, there was once a novel called "I, Robot", which systematically summarized the three laws of robots, which were put forward in 1942 and are still one of the highest standards of science fiction.
After the advent of these three laws, science fiction writers wrote robots that did not follow the three laws would be considered unorthodox, deviant, and unpopular with readers, and would be a failure.
In fact, this novel can be regarded as a collection of short stories, with the Three Laws as the core, and the story is superficially the story of robot psychologist Susan Kevin interviewed by reporters, she tells nine stories about robots.
And these nine stories are the most important content in "I, Robot", the nine stories that seem to be independent are actually from the same source, basically in accordance with the development process of robots, and can be integrated into a brief history of robot development.
Isaac Asimov, the author of the novel "I, Robot", is considered the most talented person in science fiction, he is one of the representatives of the golden age of American science fiction, and is known as the triumvirate in science fiction history along with Jules Verne and Herbert George Wales, and the triumvirate of science fiction along with Robert and Arthur C. C. Clarke.
He wrote more than 500 novels in his lifetime, covering almost all popular science works in the field of science, as well as grandiose, rigorous and ingenious science fiction novels.
Asimov's most famous works are two series, one is the robot series and the other is the base series, and the Galactic Empire trilogy is also very famous......
Generally speaking, the collection of short stories "I, Robot" is not classified as a robot series, and the three laws of robotics written at the beginning are called the cornerstones of modern robotics.
If Lin Han had written such a novel, science fiction history would never forget his contribution!
Thinking of this, his blood is already boiling, and he can't wait to start writing immediately, these three laws have almost become a kind of benchmark for robots, and even in the novel, there will be debates about the three laws, and the robot's own modification of the code of conduct will be another story line.
The novel is not directly copied, Lin Han wants to inject his own things into it, and some era backgrounds and terminology also need to change, he has previously read the original English version and Chinese translation of "I, Robot", and feels that the translation is missing to some extent.
Lin Han can now complete this masterpiece by himself, he must calm himself down and complete this novel with the most sincere attitude, hoping that this collection of novels can be carried forward in his own hands.
Closing his eyes and seriously recalling the novel, Lin Han felt that this story of a brief history of the development of robots was actually very easy to read, without the heaviness of ordinary science fiction texts, and it could be said to be the most relaxed reasoning science fiction novel.
The brilliance of the story lies in the fact that it not only creates a new science fiction logic of the three laws of robots, but also subverts the laws proposed by itself with the help of the abnormal state of robots.
On the one hand, it is subversive, and on the other hand, it is slowly cracked, and the core conflict in these nine short stories comes from cracking the loophole of the "Three Laws of Robots", which is also a tense and funny sci-fi reasoning that readers and the protagonist of the novel experience together.
A reading experience that combines the characteristics of science fiction and mystery novels, each story is not large, which is convenient for people to read in fragments, but not out of the theme.