Chapter 256: A bigger scene than "The Lord of the Rings".
"Sure enough, it took 30 years to carefully build the work, which is completely the creation of a shijie."
Su Shichen spent two days reading all the eleven books that Kede had published in the Outsider series, and couldn't help but admire in his heart, the Alien Continent created by Kede used a total of eleven books to construct, of course, if you add this zuihou book "The Outsider. The Real Outsider is twelve books, wonderful, truly wonderful works!
The Outsider series of books is about the story of two Mi people and an Englishman who traveled to a place called the Outsider Continent, which can be said to have three protagonists, twelve books, and each one uses four books to describe.
These three people became the generals of the Human Empire, the high priests of the dwarf race, and the elders of the blood elf race, three different lines, depicted from three races, a total of twelve books interpret the "Alien Continent" from all aspects.
From the wars between empires on this "alien continent", to the development of the continent's historical beliefs, to the customs and characteristics of various races, it is clearly and reasonably.
To be precise, there are some frightening things in detail and reasonableness, and it is completely worth creating a background in the past thirty years, although Su Shichen has no good impression of Ke De as a person, but he is really shocked by the "Alien Continent" he has constructed.
"The Lord of the Rings" is actually the sequel to "The Hobbit", but this sequel is even more famous than the novel "The Hobbit", which is known as the originator of modern orthodox fantasy literary fiction, and has been translated into more than 60 languages. There are other glories that will not be repeated.
But there is one point that "The Lord of the Rings" was called by the poet Auden, "no author has ever created such a delicate and illusory shijie and fictional history", and "The Lord of the Rings" is famous for its grandeur, and Su Shichen made the Zhongzhou continent created by Tolkien in "The Lord of the Rings" even worse than the Alien continent created by Kod in the "Outsiders Series".
Right. The "Lord of the Rings", which is praised by countless people on the earth, is really not as good as the "Outsider Series", and Su Shichen now has some doubts about the list of [his shijie], such a shijie view is only the fourth? (It has been determined that it can move up from fifth to fourth, so although it has not been exceeded, it has been called fourth in some newspapers.) )
Is there a problem with the selection of that list? The shijie of the Alien Continent is only the fourth, and the shijie constructed by the top three is terrifying.
It was the first time that Su Shichen felt such a great sense of oppression, and it seemed that this Shijie's Western fantasy novel was particularly developed. Far more than the Earth in the previous life.
What books to use to fight, "The Lord of the Rings" can be called the background of the earth in the previous life, and the most haode fantasy novel constructed, this is not comparable to what else can be compared? Known as an epic fantasy, "A Song of Ice and Fire" is constructed like an epic shijie. But it's the same as "The Lord of the Rings", and it can't be suppressed...... Su Shichen, who was at a loss, felt a little headache, and his face was confused.
"Brother Chu, this is his zuihou's masterpiece, and he must go all out. Expected by Chinese fans and Asian fans; Then Kode's "The Real Outsider" is said to throw out this shijie setting, which is the biggest background view. Before it came out, fans in Europe and the United States had warm expectations. Okay, I have already lost a chip in terms of attention, and Brother Chu and Kede may have started to write the book, but now I have overturned my previous preparation, and I have lost a chip here. ”
I felt the vibration in my pocket, touched it, it was the phone that vibrate, and took it out to take a look. Three missed calls, and they were all from Chu Xing.
Call back to the past, "Hey." Brother Chu, I'm sorry, I was thinking about things just now, so I didn't hear it, is there something? ”
"Are you thinking about the confrontation of fantasy novels?" Chu Xing's words were right.
"Well, I just watched the "Outsider Series" and it shocked me a lot, so I'm going to reimagine my novel."
"Well, the "Outsider Series" can indeed be said to be one of the most successful fantasy novels in Shijieguan" Chu Xing changed his words, "I also read the news a few days ago, no matter how hard you work on the background, it is impossible to write a book that surpasses the "Outsider Series" in a short period of time, so you must not challenge the strengths of others with your shortcomings because of a momentary impulse. Ke De's previous words did mean to despise Su Shichen, so Chu Xing was afraid that he would be impulsive and make unwise moves.
"I know, Brother Chu, don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who is reckless."
"By the way, Brother Chu's fantasy novels have also won the Hugo Award, and now the Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded, Brother Chu, what are you on the list of [his shijie]?"
"It's a fantasy novel series that describes the continent of Nieste, and it's ranked thirty-seventh in [his shijie]. When I write novels, I originally focus on characters and plots, and the portrayal of Shijie is much weaker. ”
The list of [his shijie] is really high, and the series of novels that write the continent of Nest can be regarded as the representative work and the highest level of Chu Xing's fantasy novels, but even in this case, it is still not even in the top 30.
Kede is fourth, Chu Xing is thirty-seventh, this is not to say that the gap between Chu Xing and Kede is big, [his shijie] is the shijie constructed in the selection novel, not the plot, if it is according to the comprehensive strength, Chu Xing and Kede are of the same level.
"I have a suggestion." Chu Xing suddenly said so.
"What advice? Brother Chu, please speak. ”
"The "Flood Wilderness Series" is very successful in blending Chinese classical immortals, but I also read it, in fact, Brother Chen, you didn't describe the background of the flood wilderness, but used one character and one story to support the entire flood wilderness......" Chu Xing didn't say it too obviously, but clicked to the end.
But Su Shichen understands that "The Flood Series" is indeed like this, although there are a lot of comments that Su Shichen has constructed a Shijie of the Flood Wilderness, but there is really no excessive description of Su Shichen about the Flood Wilderness, and there is no such thing as Tolkien or Kode who depict the illusory shijie little by little as a real shijie.
But it's Su Shichen's kind of shijie that uses character plot construction. It feels like Honghuang Shijie is still very exciting, and you can know how successful Honghuang Shijie is by going to the online literature circle to see how many Honghuang Shijie novels are.
"Brother Chen, you have a very deep foundation in the portrayal of the plot characters. The catastrophe of the world or the fascinating tomb robbery of the ghost blowing the lantern. This time you can go in that direction. ”
"Brother Xiexie Chu, I will definitely think about it."
"Hehe, come on, win this year's Hugo Award for Best Feature!" Chu Xing encouraged on the phone.
hung up, and after a phone call, the confused look on Su Shichen's face completely disappeared.
Yes, he simply doesn't have the time to complete a shijie construction in thirty years like Kod did.
"Use the character to drive Shijie. What fantasy novel has the most heroic characters? After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't think of the right one, and I knocked my head big, weishenme wanted to limit his thinking to the field of fiction.
His previous confrontation with his original residence was not an adapted movie. If you think a little more openly, anime, movies, novels, TV series, and even games can be used, as long as it is suitable.
This kind of large-scale search has broadened the mind. But I still didn't find a suitable one for a while.
"That's right. I should think about it another way, if I talk about heroes in Western fantasy, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Su Shichen asked himself a question, and then a name came to his mind - demigod Nao Aozu!
With the appearance of the name of the demigod Nao Aozu, a game called Monster Shijie came into Su Shichen's mind.
Inspiration suddenly poured out in his head, and one by one characters appeared in his mind.
The second commander of the Burning Legion, the darkest Eredar Warlock on Shijie, known as Akmund the Polluter!
Known as the greatest rebellion in the entire history. The most powerful warrior in the Pantheon, the Dark Titan Sargeras, the creator of the Burning Legion!
Pull out the sorrow of the magic sword frost. Arthas, the Lich King who eventually became the leader of the Scourge Legion. Minahill!!
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Su Shichen was excited, and then kept refining the idea in his head, Warcraft, the most popular real-time strategy game on Shijie in his previous life, this game can be said to be very protruding from the concept of "hero".
The game is very fun, but the huge background of this game is even more exciting, the undead clan, the panda human race, the elf race, the demon race, the blood elves, the dwarf race, the goblin race, the ogre race, etc., all kinds of overwhelmed races, these are all common in Western fantasy novels.
The uncommon race of Cadore, Delaney, Naga, and Sutter is even more lively than the Spring and Autumn Hundred Schools of Thought.
It's not just the war of the race, but also the Burning Legion and the Scourge Legion, it can be said that the background of Warcraft is simply a template for this Western fantasy, just like the martial arts novel written by Jin Yong, anyone who can jump out of Jin Yong's martial arts and write haode can be called a grandmaster, Jin Yong's martial arts can be said to be a template of martial arts, and it is definitely a good idea to build Warcraft into a Western fantasy template for this shijie.
Warcraft shijie such a novel, Su Shichen didn't believe that he couldn't suppress the Alien Continent, Su Shichen thought of this idea can be said to be very excited, and immediately turned on the computer and prepared to start writing, but he didn't type a word for a long time.
Well, the background of Warcraft is too huge, as mentioned above, both Alsace and Sargeras can become the protagonists of a novel, and the stories behind each hero are very large, with independent events and independent personalities, which also leads to Su Shichen He doesn't know where to start at all.
"Whew-" exhaled heavily, "I want to calm down, I want to calm down, take your time, I remember that there are thirteen official novels in the background of Warcraft." ”
Searching in his head, it was indeed as he remembered, Warcraft did have thirteen official novels, of course, strictly speaking, it should be eleven, and two of them were fanfiction.
"The Official History of Warcraft Shijie", "A Brief History of Warcraft Shijie", "The Well of Eternity", "Dragon Age", ......
"These eleven official novels of Warcraft can be used as a reference." Su Shichen is preparing to combine fiction and games to create a series of novels.
It took Ke De thirty years to create the Alien Continent, which is indeed not easy to surpass in a short period of time, but the background of the Warcraft Shijie is constructed by many people.
Naturally, the background of Warcraft cannot be written down in time like the "Flood Series", and even if it only focuses on those wars, it will take about seven or eight books to narrate.
Su Shichen thought of a clever way, taking the perspective of one of the heroes, writing it like a biography, omitting some unimportant parts, and directly climaxing, using four or five heroic biographies that are related to each other to support a book.
It is fully believed that this "Warcraft series" can shock the world. The same series can completely exceed the number of "Outsiders Series", you think about it, even if the heroic deeds of five Warcraft are combined into one book, it is so easy to find dozens or even hundreds of heroes worth writing about in the entire backstory of Warcraft.
Well, in the later generations, [his shijie] ranked first, and was called "a fantasy novel series that can never be surpassed - "Warcraft Series" by the New York Times.
Of course, this is a later story, and the most important thing is that the first pioneering work of this series, which heroes' deeds should be chosen to start?
This is a problem......
PS: Well, when it comes to Western fantasy with a huge background, the first thing that comes to mind for Kitten is Warcraft...... Anyway, I watched the armored warrior with my sister for a while today, and then the kitten's three views collapsed, and I was disgusted for a long time. (To be continued......)