Unlike the lukewarm reaction of readers of "2012", the "Sadder" article on Wen Wei Po aroused a huge response from the public and the literary world as soon as it was published, just like "The Village Teacher" published in "Reading".

Originally, in newspapers and magazines at this stage, as long as there were topics related to science fiction, they were arguing whether science fiction belonged to popular science or literature, and whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

This is another wrestling between the science fiction community and the science community, the science popularization community, and the critics, and this wrestling will directly determine whether China's science fiction can continue to exist above board and whether it can be more prosperous.

The winner is the king, and the loser is cole.

If the science fiction community loses again in this debate, it is conceivable that those science fiction authors who have finally been courageously summoned up by Govin to stand up for science fiction will be discouraged and give up science fiction creation; And repeated failures will also make the majority of readers form a concept similar to "science fiction is really not a good thing" in their hearts, and there will be no creators and readers......

It's going to be the end of science fiction!

At this time, because of Qian Xuesen's second opinion article in the "Liberation Daily", China's science fiction community has actually retreated repeatedly, and it is about to be unable to resist the attacks of the critics and science popularization circles.

And then "Heartbreaker" came out!

Every reader who has read this novel will never forget the three words "sadder", the young man named He Xi, and his "principle of micro-continuity", and in that not-so-distant future. A story that happened about the hero and his mother.

No pale language can express the shock it brings to readers, whether you are a science fiction fan or not, whether you recognize science fiction or not, whether you like science fiction or not. As long as you read this novel, you will go back several times and revisit the excitement and touching things in the novel, and you can't help but want to re-experience the touching and passion that has not appeared for a long time.

It is this novel, like the novels that caused great repercussions and sensations in the society at the beginning, that was hotly discussed by the public.

This kind of treatment has been done in scar literature, educated youth literature, and reform literature, such as Ah Cheng's "The Chess King", and Govyn's "Generation", "Taoist Tower" and "Country Teacher". Now it's the turn of "The Heartbreaker"!

"Heartbreaker" shattered the dull atmosphere of previous science fiction debates, and the reviews of "Heartbreaker" exploded, suddenly bringing a clear stream of science fiction that had always been attacked. A round of praise. Readers rushed to describe how they felt when they watched "The Sadder" in various media.

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A third force is beginning to emerge in the print media!

This force comes from the widest possible readership. is the voice of the most grassroots public.

For them. Whether science fiction is good or bad, whether science fiction is right or not is secondary, the point is that science fiction can move them? Can science fiction give them spiritual pleasure?

As long as a science fiction novel can move them and resonate with them, it is a good work, a work that they like and want to read.

In this sense, it seems that Govin has always been right, and as long as it is accepted by the widest range of readers, does the opinion of the so-called experts and professors matter?

The quality of a work is not determined by experts and professors!

A critic brings to market what he thinks is a good work. Then the work received a wide range of readers, and it seems that the critics determined the readers' tastes. But if it weren't for the reader's genuine liking of this work, then the critic would have struggled to speak, and the work he recommended would not have been liked by the majority of readers.

Those so-called elites think that they have made choices for others and for readers, but in fact this is not the case, it is the public who have helped them make a decision and choose a certain work from the pile of works they have found.

So in essence, the quality of a work is still determined by the public, and the so-called experts and professors just follow the will of the times and the will of the public!

The one who can really make the choice is always the reader!

And in addition to the enthusiastic pursuit of readers, the literary world has also made its own voice.

It's a strange thing to say.

In 1979, science fiction was criticized for the first time by some popular science writers in the "Popular Science Discussion" column of "China Youth Daily", and most of these criticisms revolved around whether the scientific fiction in the novel was valid, and then such unfair criticism was refuted by science fiction writers, but because the topic was limited to the scope of popular science, science fiction writers were forced to stay away from literature and refute the rationality of these fictions one by one.

Then this debate developed into a debate about whether science fiction literature should be surnamed "science" or "literature", which discussed whether science fiction is a literary genre or part of popular science creation. Almost all of the writers engaged in science fiction creation agree that science fiction is a literary style, while popular science critics, scientists, and relevant leaders judge that science fiction is a part of popular science creation, and the two sides quarrel in a mess.

However, it is strange that this controversy about science fiction literature is completely outside the field of vision of mainstream literature, and there is no intervention of any mainstream literary circles at all, and it is only a bilateral confrontation between science fiction writers and some individuals in the scientific and popular science circles. You must know that science fiction writers have classified science fiction literature into the literary world!

No one knows why the literary interface is silent in response to the sci-fi community's pleas to absorb itself

Perhaps it's because the literary world looks down on this genre of children's books?

Or maybe it's because although science fiction at that time also had its own aesthetic value, the dry literary talent of science fiction writers and the more scientific and technological literary form of science fiction. Are they unrecognizable to most people in the literary world?

In any case, it is an indisputable fact that the science fiction community has been rejected by the literary world.

Eventually, this changed, and from the beginning of Govyn's "The Country Teacher" to give people in the literary world a new understanding of science fiction. After this "Heartbreaker" came out, the kind of artistic charm and literariness that belong to science fiction novels made people in the literary world feel extremely novel.

"The Broken Heart" is different from "The Country Teacher", if "The Country Teacher" is grand and the theme is the fate of mankind, then "The Broken Heart" is to express the impact of scientific discoveries on the fate of individuals, focusing on the tragic fate of individuals.

Many writers in the literary world love this "Heartbreaker" very much, because for them in the real world. There are many things that can be associated through the illusory plot of Gowen.

Therefore, there are a lot of comments from the literary world, and the writers who were enthusiastic about "The Country Teacher" at the beginning are no exception. Even a group of writers who had been silent all along, came forward to express their love for Govyn's science fiction novels and their reflections on science fiction novels.

Mr. He Jingzhi, then deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, wrote a commentary in the "China Youth Daily" a few days later.

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Govyn's The Broken Heart is a novel about the contradiction between two values: modern material values and traditional transcendent values.

He Xi, the protagonist of "The Heartbreaker", studies the basic subject of mathematics, and faces the double oppression of life and dignity in the materialistic college campus. The only one who supports him is his mother "Xia Qunfang". "He Xi" finally completed a theoretical masterpiece called "Micro Continuity Original". But no one cared. Only the mother persistently helped her son sneak his books into the library. One hundred and fifty years later, when people encountered a bottleneck in the study of the "Great Unified Theory of the Universe", they unintentionally found that this "genius" who "transcended the times" 150 years ago had already given the mathematical expression of the "Great Unified Theory".

The science fiction novel "The Sadder" is quite realistic in detail, expressing a tribute to the silent dedication of ordinary scientists, and the huge contradiction between the "protagonist's" ultimate exploration of science to realize the value of life and the practical value of modern society's pursuit of pleasure has been meticulously shown. The essay also focuses on the touching emotions between mother and child, which are undoubtedly themes that are only the focus of traditional value systems.

Including Gowen's "The Country Teacher" and "2012," these three science fiction novels are about the search for ultimate truth. The science fiction novels of heroism, which do not hesitate to give one's life, show the conflict between the ephemeral principle of modernity and the eternal principle of life. All end with the triumph of the principle of the great meaning of life. All this reflects Comrade Govin's reflection on reality, the past, and the future, and at the same time, it is also a reflective reflection on the forces that promote the development of modern society itself, and objectively expresses the thoughts of these anxious forward-looking people.

These three science fiction novels of Govyn stand at the height of transcending the norms of secular values, and carry out a profound reflection on modern society, and he tries to reconstruct a traditional mental structure with spiritual depth through the way of science fiction. His efforts are based on confidence in traditional Chinese culture, which can also be seen as a kind of "root-searching" of Chinese science fiction for traditional Chinese culture.

Unlike other authors, although Govine writes science fiction novels, his science fiction novels have the qualities of idealism and classical heroism, and unlike the craze of learning from Western literature and thought that is emerging in the literary world, he has made a gesture of rejection of the influx of Western culture, and he has drawn nourishment from traditional Chinese culture and tried to reconstruct a modern value system that conforms to traditional Chinese aesthetics with a splendid national imagination.

Although this value system is currently only manifested in his science fiction works, the unique combination of technology and humanities in his science fiction works has to some extent been more thoughtful and literally literate than some pure literary works in the literary world.

Science fiction takes the fantasy of science and technology as the basic theme, combines the ideal and reality of modernity, and undoubtedly describes modernity on a more intuitive, prophetic and forward-looking literary level, showing us the consequences of the coming modernity.

This kind of genre is not so much science fiction or popular science works, but I think it should belong to the category of literature, not children's literature, but literary works in the true sense! (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )