The small town of West England, Maiinhead.

Fifteen-year-old Arthur C. Clarke came out of school and ran all the way to the town's post office.

"Charlie, come to see the newspaper again?" A post office employee laughed.

Arthur Clarke's obedient greeting: "Hello Uncle Joseph! ”

The employee smiled and said, "Come in, your mom is sorting out the newspaper and will be off work soon." ”

Clark's mother was a post office clerk, and his hobby since childhood was reading old newspapers and magazines from the post office, especially whimsical science fiction stories. Clark was a science fiction fan, and at the age of 12 he used a homemade telescope to observe the moon and map its surface. Although he is only 15 years old, he has already taught himself radio technology.

Like Wells, this old man's family is also very bad, his father has died of illness, and he is completely dependent on his mother to earn money to support the family. After graduating from high school, Clark had to work until he was 29 years old, when he was involved in the development of the RAF's early warning radar defense system.

Without Zhou Hexuan, Clark would have been the first to predict an "artificial earth satellite", and in his 1945 work "Extraterrestrial Transmission", he concluded that radio and television signals could be transmitted to the world through geosynchronous satellites.

At this time, Clark was still a teenager who liked to fantasize, and he ran into the post office to say hello to his mother, and then went to a corner where countless expired scrap newspapers and magazines were piled up.

Clark read so fast that he picked up a newspaper and scanned it quickly, stopping only when he found something related to science. Sitting in the pile of discarded newspapers and periodicals like a mountain of garbage, Clark is very excited, he is like a scavenger, happily digging for his own treasures.

"Hey, this is actually an American science fiction magazine, it's so rare!" Clark hurriedly collected it in his bag.

At this moment, my mother, who was already off work, came over and shouted, "Charlie, it's almost home!" ”

"Here we are, Mom!" Clark replied, his hands still rummaging through the scrap paper.

After two minutes, the mother anxiously urged again: "Charlie, hurry up, the post office is going to be locked." ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" Crake reluctantly stood up, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a brand-new magazine buried beneath a discarded newspaper. He hurriedly pulled it out, but it was a copy of "The School of Scientology" stained by coffee, and most of the cover was stained brown.

Together, the mother and son walked back to their farmhouse on the outskirts of town, which had fallen into disrepair, with broken doors and windows, chiseled with rough wooden nails.

When my mother got home, she immediately went into the kitchen and started cooking dinner, and turned on the ore radio to listen to the radio.

It's just that there seems to be something wrong with the radio, and the mother can't make a sound even a few beats, and she immediately shouts: "Charlie, come and fix the machine!" ”

"It's coming!"

Clark came running with a tool, quickly disassembling the radio, and after a few tries, he smiled: "Last time I didn't have a strong wiring, it was just a small problem." ”

The children of the poor are in charge of the house, and all the electrical appliances in Clark's house are discarded products that he picked up from the town. For example, this radio was made by disassembling three broken radios and assembling the usable parts inside.

After fixing the radio in two or two, Clark couldn't wait to go back to the bedroom, take out the "School of Science" magazine and look through it.

It's a rarity, as few people order it in the middle of nowhere. In addition to science fiction, the content also has the latest scientific trends, as well as a variety of shallow or deep scientific theories.

Clark first turned to the science fiction page, because he could read it immediately, while he had to read and understand the other popular science content, and even do his own experiments according to the explanations in it.

"The Legend of the Galactic Heroes?"

The magazine was dirty, and the coffee not only stained the cover, but also infected much of the body of the text, so much so that some of the handwriting was already blurred. Unaffected by this, Clark reads science fiction stories with a twist and turns, completely immersed in the fantasy world.

"Charlie, it's time to eat!" Mother shouted.

"Here we are, Mom!"

Clark put down the magazine with great satisfaction, he had already read the prologue three times, and he was shocked by the huge cosmic framework.

My God!

More than 1,000 years later, mankind has completed the exploration of the Milky Way and established a powerful interstellar empire. Clarke, who is nearly 15 years old, doesn't know much about dictatorship, democracy, etc., he just likes that magical world.

Unfortunately, this issue only has a prologue, and Clark dreamed of seeing the story behind it.

For the next few weeks, Clark ran to the post office every time he got out of school, just to see the story behind the prologue of "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes."

Unfortunately, very few people in this remote town order the School of Scientology, let alone the coffee-stained School of Science. It wasn't until two years later that Clark graduated from high school and became an auditor for the school's pension department that he discovered a set of magazines at the home of a retired school director.

In 1956, when the 39-year-old Clark won the Hugo Award for the first time, he said in his acceptance speech: "One of my dreams as a teenager was to be able to read The School of Science without missing a single note. When I got my first paycheck, I didn't hesitate to order the magazine, and Reinhardt and Young Willy accompanied me through my teenage years. Thanks to Mr. Zhou Hexuan, it was a wonderful time, and the vast universe can make people forget their troubles. Now that I have become a science fiction writer, I hope that my work can also accompany countless teenagers and young people, and become their best companion in their growth......"

Throughout the '20s and '30s, both in Europe and the United States, it was the golden age of science fiction.

This is thanks to the many scientists represented by Einstein, along with the progress of cutting-edge sciences such as the theory of relativity and quantum theory, which quickly set off a science fiction boom in Europe and the United States.

However, there are still some differences between Europe and the United States, European science fiction writers like to carry private goods, and discuss realistic topics in science fiction, and generally have higher artistic value. The United States, on the other hand, takes a purely commercial route, adding elements such as bloody adventure and suspenseful reasoning, which is more similar to the online articles of later generations in China.

There is no doubt that "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" would certainly be more popular in the United States than in Europe, and it is obviously more in line with the appetite of American readers.

But that didn't stop "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" from gaining popularity in the UK, first of all, it was the golden age of science fiction and had a wide readership. Secondly, it should be popular, in-depth and profound, and readers of all walks of life can read it with relish.

Yes, The Legend of the Galactic Heroes has a lot of depth, at least in the early 30s.

Yoshiki Tanaka, the author of the original book, borrowed too many things when he was creating, such as Hitler's dictatorship. The confrontation between the two protagonists in it can be regarded as a war between democracy and dictatorship, justice and fascism, and there are also shadows of Napoleon, militarism, feudal dictatorship, ****, fundamentalism, and racism.

These elements may seem banal 50 years later, but they were written in the 1930s and were too eye-catching enough to be considered a political one.

Countless British teenagers like Clark wandered in the cosmic fantasy of "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes", a science fiction work that accompanied them through a long time of youth and became a common memory of a generation.

There are often young British people in Secondary 2 who quote lines from this book: "Our journey is a sea of stars!" ”

When that generation of readers grew up to be middle-aged, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" was also made into a TV series for the first time, and the ratings exploded instantly, easily crushing all the TV programs at that time.

Later, Lucas, the creator of "Star Wars", said: "When I was 16 years old, I first saw 'Legend of the Galactic Heroes' on TV, which was a TV series imported from the United Kingdom. You can't imagine the shock, the vast universe, the brilliant starry sky, more beautiful than anything else in the world. Since then, I've had a dream of interstellar warfare, and I want to create my own cosmic story. ”

These are all later words, British science fiction readers at this time love and hate Zhou Hexuan - how good-looking, why can't you update it faster?