Those who are familiar with the circle know that once the Galaxy Award essay collection begins, the selection of the Galaxy Award will of course also begin, which is the grandest event in the Chinese science fiction industry, especially so many outstanding science fiction works that emerged in the past year will be commended here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Among so many excellent books, Lin Han's novels and short stories are very popular, and any book is a classic, but it is completely embarrassing for others to let the judges choose!

The Galactic Awards have a traditional award called the Readers' Nomination Award, which used to be used by readers in the science fiction world to select the most popular works by means of letters.

With the development of communication methods, letters have been gradually eliminated from society, and readers can vote directly on the Galaxy Awards webpage specially created by Science Fiction World Magazine.

Last year, the total number of voters was more than 100,000, and science fiction was still a niche genre of literature that was isolated and self-appreciating, and now it has slowly entered the mainstream.

The Reader Nomination Award has always been a test of a book's status in the hearts of the audience, Lin Han successfully won the award last year, and everyone is optimistic that he will win again this year, but which book is more popular with domestic readers?

No one knew this answer, all of Lin Han's novels were very popular, and when the voting channel was just opened, readers who had been following for a long time rushed in and began to vote for their favorite novels!

However, the ferocious traffic paralyzed the website all at once, and the readers in the back couldn't squeeze in at all, and the readers in front couldn't complete the voting, and the programmers who designed the site didn't expect so many people at all.

Netizens who can't vote are angry, what kind of garbage website is this, they can't get in from the beginning, it's even more rubbish than buying train tickets!

The programmers who had gone home to rest at the magazine were urgently recruited, and one by one they tried to increase the load of the server with red eyes, and it took several hours before they slowly started running.

In the voting session, almost all of Lin Han's novels were mentioned the most, but "I, Robot" and "Jurassic Park" were the first to fall behind, and their protagonists' backgrounds and names were not Chinese, so there was a congenital difference in the sense of substitution.

And "The Three-Body Problem" can be said to be a smiling and proud, shocking trilogy is very attractive, especially the second part is regarded as a masterpiece among gods, so it was vaguely ahead in the first day of voting.

As for Lin Hancai's new book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", it has also become a dark horse, obviously the first part of the serialization, but the expectation value has gone all the way, and many readers feel that this kind of black humor is very good combined with science fiction, so the ranking is closely followed by "The Three-Body Problem".

In third place for the time being, it is not the novel, but Lin Han's 20,000-word "The Wandering Earth", a short story with a magnificent story that overwhelms many long stories, making readers feel extremely surprised, but they can accept it directly.

In just 24 hours, more than 200,000 IPs participated in the voting, which is more than the total number of participants in the previous session.

Lin Han, who was far away in Cyprus, also connected to the hotel's wifi, and he voted for "The Three-Body Problem" with great interest.

"Are you okay, let's go swimming at the beach!" Chen Jiaxuan couldn't help urging and said, this was the last stop of the tour, and she didn't want to end.

Lin Han closed the laptop and quickly took the room card into his pocket wearing flip-flops, "Okay, let's go." You must have been in the desert for a long time, and now you see the water is kind. ”

Chen Jiaxuan took Lin Han's hand and came to the elevator entrance, she nodded and replied thoughtfully: "If you found out, I am afraid that I will never want to go to the desert again in this life." ”

At this time, the elevator clanged, and after slowly opening, Lin Han found that a family from abroad was also preparing to go downstairs.

The blonde little Lori with missing front teeth was carrying a cage in her hand, and a mouse was running around in the cage, and she said in a milky voice: "Charlie, let's go to see the sea later, you haven't seen the sea yet!"

The squeaky mouse didn't know if it understood, and it couldn't stop for a moment.

Lin Han has seen a little girl with a pet, but when did the little girl like to raise a mouse? He couldn't help but set his eyes on that family, and he grinned.

The hotel is very close to the beach, the warm sun shining on your body, the salty sea breeze blowing on your face, the tall palm trees and the parasols, everything is so beautiful.

After finding a place to sit down, Lin Han's head kept flashing the appearance of the guinea pig, and he completely forgot about the things around him.

"Hey, what are you thinking? You're running out of sunscreen. ”

Chen Jiaxuan originally waited for Lin Han to help her apply sunscreen on her back and neck, but after waiting for a long time, she found that there was no movement at all, and she turned her head to find that Lin Han was actually in deep thought.

Interrupted by Chen Jiaxuan like this, Lin Han came back from his trance, he shook his head and said, "I was thinking about the guinea pig just now, and I want to write it in the new book." ”

"Did the protagonist have a guinea pig of the same style?"

"Do you know what guinea pigs are usually used for?" Lin Han asked rhetorically, he was worried about the subject matter of his new book, but he was inspired by a little girl.

Chen Jiaxuan frowned, "Mouse is usually done in the laboratory for all kinds of experiments, and many mice die every day." Isn't your new book about a space opera? Why do you jump on the guinea pig, is it possible that your protagonist is a crazy biologist who falls in love with the guinea pig who does his own experiments?"

"It's okay to write a space opera book in the future, and the new book will be decided to be it!" Lin Han suddenly stood up and said ambitiously.

Who is the most famous guinea pig in the history of science fiction?

I guess ten readers will name the same name, and that's Algernon!

Algernon is a guinea pig in the novel "Bouquet for Algernon", and two scientists experiment on the mouse Algernon to make him very smart and willing to cooperate in the experiment.

But then the little mouse was unwilling to cooperate, and his intelligence gradually declined and he died. Charlie Gordon, the protagonist of the novel, has the same surgery, he goes from a mentally retarded to a genius, and at the same time has love, but the problems that happened to Algernon are also with Charlie.

This is a story that makes people feel full of pain and warmth after reading it, which can make people smile and be sad, who says that science fiction stories can't be touching!

The entire novel is written by the protagonist Charlie Gordon, and the author, Daniel Case, writes extremely well and involves a lot of psychological knowledge.

He imitates the tone of a mentally handicapped person at the beginning of the article, and as the plot develops, the protagonist becomes clever and then changes the way of description, so that the reader can directly see the process.

At the end of the article, when the protagonist's intelligence declines, he uses a lot of long sentences in his description, because the protagonist in the novel no longer knows how to use commas, this small detail increases the reader's sense of substitution, and even the author deliberately writes a lot of typos and grammatical errors, which can better show the identity of the protagonist who is mentally retarded.

This diary-like report, typos and punctuation misuse are all deliberately created by the author, Daniel Case, to enhance the gap in the hero's IQ before and after the operation, as well as the tension of the story.

When Lin Han read this book for the first time, he thought that he had bought a pirated version of the book, and he saw typos on the second line of the first page, and continued to find many typos when he looked back.

In anger, he was about to take the book to the bookstore owner to theorize, but when he searched the comments on the Internet, he found that many people were in this situation, and many people thought that they had bought pirated books!

From the appearance of the typo to the disappearance, the protagonist Charlie goes through the mental journey from darkness to light, and when the typo of the last progress report reappears, everything is over, and he becomes mentally retarded again.

Perhaps this is the saddest point of all, as readers watch Charlie go from being unable to read a typo, to a spark of wisdom, and finally to slowly becoming dull and mentally retarded again.

It's like a poem that Lin Han wrote before, "If I hadn't seen the sun, I might have endured the darkness." If Charlie had been mentally retarded, he wouldn't have had the pain in the back!

This science fiction novel has been loved by readers since its publication, and it started as a novella and has already won a Hugo Award. When author Daniel Keys expanded the book into a long form, it won the Nebula Award.

"Bouquet for Algernon" can be said to be the most successful film and television adaptation of science fiction, and has been adapted many times.

In 1968, it was adapted into the famous movie "Charlie", and actor Cliff Robertson, who played the male protagonist Charlie, won the Oscar in one fell swoop for this role!

At the same time, it is also the most successful Japanese drama, which has been adapted into a popular Japanese drama twice, touching batch after batch of audiences.

For this book, Lin Han plans to change the background of the protagonist to China, but the title of the book will not change, the guinea pig is still called Algernon, it is difficult for him to imagine that the book will be renamed again, will it become "Bouquet for the Mouse" or "Bouquet for Wangcai/Beibei/Baby"?

At the thought of these names, he couldn't help but shudder, the original name was still good, "Bouquet for Algernon" sounded so beautiful, like a long poem with gorgeous rhetoric!

Before Lin Han officially read the book, he always thought that it was a romance novel, and the heroine was Algernon, but after reading the novel, he realized that it was a beautiful misunderstanding. (To be continued.) )