Chapter 749: Nebula Award Forum

As soon as Gu Xiaofan returned to Edinburgh Castle, he turned on the computer, downloaded the files of Valyrian and Dothraki designed by Joanne, studied it a little by himself, and only felt that there were no flaws in the grammar and pronunciation, which completely met the requirements in his mind, and he couldn't help but be ecstatic in his heart, but he didn't expect that the most tricky thing of the crew was solved by Joanne. [No pop-up novel network]

But at this time, Joanne made a peculiar request, which was to temporarily conceal that the two languages were designed by her, and only said that they were the work of Black Feather Studio.

Although Gu Xiaofan didn't know the reason, he thought that these nobles had a lot of stinky rules, so he didn't do much research.

However, Gu Xiaofan thought about it carefully, although he couldn't find any flaws in the two "fantasy languages" after his research, but at his level, he didn't know anything about European languages at all, so he found Old Martin and director Taylor for a detailed review.

When Old Martin and director Taylor got this series of materials, they couldn't help but be stunned, they didn't understand how Gu Xiaofan created two languages in a few days.

The two of them just looked at it roughly, although they were excited, but at the same time they were worried, they really didn't believe that Gu Xiaofan's "friend" had the level to make two "fantasy words......

However, you must know that language design is a huge time-consuming, technical work, and it needs to be repeatedly carved and verified to see if there is any logical contradiction between grammar and pronunciation.

So after discussion, Gu Xiaofan felt that he couldn't solve it, so he found Chen Keer and asked what he had the idea.

Chen Keer thought for a while and proposed: "Director Gu, do you have enough confidence in the design of these two languages?" ”

Gu Xiaofan nodded as a matter of course: "Of course, this is the brainchild of a friend of mine." ”

Just kidding, a monster who can use a "psychological decision tree" to mentally calculate people's emotional reactions, Joanne's ghost girl's IQ is unquestionable.

After Chen Keer got Gu Xiaofan's assurance, he put forward a bold idea.

"In this way, we might as well simply post all the materials in these two languages to the 'Nebula Award' forum, and accept the test of science fiction and fantasy book fans all over the world, the power of fantasy book fans around the world is much stronger than a few of us."

"Two fantasy languages were released on the Nebula Awards forum...... Isn't that too risky? Old Martin couldn't help but be a little nervous when he heard this, even if it was himself, he was often scolded by book fans in the "Nebula Award" forum......

Gu Xiaofan didn't fully understand the meaning of this, and Taylor explained it to him next to him.

The "Nebula Award" is an award established by the American Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers, and is known as the "Double Award for Fantasy and Science and Technology Literature" together with the "Hugo Award" ("The Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award), and is the Oscar of the fantasy industry.

If the "Hugo Award" forum is a temple for science fiction fans all over the world, then the "Nebula Award" forum is a paradise for fantasy book fans.

Many fledgling fantasy writers began to serialize their works on the "Nebula Award" forum, thus becoming famous in one fell swoop.

Among them, there are many who publish background information for their "fantasy world" and let many book fans evaluate it.

This has two advantages, the first is that it can be discussed by the reader to make up for the shortcomings set in the work, and the second is that it can make fans see the depth of his novel, generate great interest in his novel, and greatly increase the popularity of the novel.

But at the same time, there may also be adverse effects, if the published "fantasy world" background has too many loopholes, the design logic is extremely unreasonable, and it is very likely to be used as a laughing stock by book fans, labeled as a "third-rate" work.

The highest level of this act of publishing information is undoubtedly the publication of man-made "fantasy language", because in all background materials, language is a yardstick that tests the writer's own cultural heritage compared to other characters and objects that can be constructed entirely by imagination.

So far, only three great writers at the beginning of the last century have succeeded in creating an amazing and magical "fantasy language".

They are Robert Howard, one of the "Three Masters of Fantasy" in the history of the world's fantasy literature and the creator of the era of "Sword and Sorcery", and the Hyperion language family created in the "Conan" series.

The originator of modern epic fantasy, the English fantasy master E. R. Edison coined the Zimiwaya language in "The Giant Worm of Oberon".

and the elven languages that took fantasy literature to life, coined by the great Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, and the dwarven languages, the western continentals, and the Númenorian languages.

The fantasy book fans in the "Nebula Award" forum are extremely fond of these "fantasy languages", and even post on the forum and at many theme parties, everyone is proud to be fluent in "advanced elves".

However, in addition to the above three deceased masters, although countless talents have emerged in the fantasy literary world in the future, no one has created a new "fantasy language" recognized by everyone in the past few decades.

It's not that new fantasy writers don't work hard, it's that writers don't have the same deep language skills as old-school writers, and they simply don't have the ability to create a perfect language.

A Song of Ice and Fire is now almost universally recognized as the most successful fantasy novel since The Lord of the Rings, but it only invented seven words......

And now, Gu Xiaofan is working on the series of "Game of Thrones", and he has released two new languages, which may challenge fantasy fans all over the world...... It's no wonder they don't try to find fault.

Seeing that everyone was suspicious, Chen Ke'er said indifferently:

"I have confidence in Director Gu, since he said that these two fantasy words are fine, I believe there will not be much of a problem, and putting it on the 'Nebula Award' forum has two huge benefits for our crew......"

Gu Xiaofan asked curiously, "Which two benefits?" ”

"First of all, once these two fantasy languages are recognized by everyone, then it means that we have surpassed Martin's level and reached a higher level in the original novel, so that we can capture the fans of the original book of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and fantasy book fans, this group of the most die-hard support, which is not necessarily beneficial to our initial ratings and word-of-mouth spread."

Chen Keer looked at Martin with some apologies, as if he was afraid of hurting the self-esteem of such a great writer, but Martin waved his hand again and again: "Director Gu has already surpassed my level~"

Chen Keer nodded and continued: "And secondly, we can show the Scottish people that this drama that they have mobilized the support of national resources is a real epic masterpiece, which is worthy of their full dedication, and supporting us will greatly increase the prestige of our crew in Scotland, and it will be extremely beneficial for us to recruit extras and filming work." ”

After Chen Ke'er's analysis, everyone understood the huge benefits of doing this, Gu Xiaofan didn't think as far as Chen Ke'er thought at all, and was once again amazed by the foresight of this female Zhuge