London.

Churchill received a follow-up to "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" from China, which was about 50,000 words. He was even more depressed after reading it, because there were too few updates, and he didn't know when he would be able to see the later chapters.

Due to Churchill's initiative, Zhou Hexuan's manuscripts were sent directly to him, and he waited until he finished reading them before sending them to the magazine.

It was impossible for Churchill to do such a trifle himself, so he got a servant and instructed: "Send the manuscript to the journal "Scientology." ”

It was only after the servant had left with the manuscript that Churchill began to write to his pen pal Wells, attaching a copy of the newly published journal Scientology.

Three days later, Wells, who had just returned from an interview in Geneva, received a letter from Churchill.

"Dear Wells,

I haven't corresponded with you for a long time, and I heard that you went to Geneva to cover the League of Nations meeting, and I don't know what is new there......

Recently, I read a science fiction book called "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes", which was written by the famous Chinese author Zhou Hexuan. This science fiction book is very interesting, for example, it mentions the concept of 'subspace jump navigation', 'electronic computer', and so on. In particular, the concept of starships is very similar to your work "Star Wars"......"

Wells, who is in his sixties, is one of the founding fathers of British science fiction and has now rarely written long stories, but has turned to political theorist and journalist.

Wells is very familiar with Zhou Hexuan, because he is also a historian and has written the book "Outline of World History".

The Outline of World History was introduced to China during the Northern Expedition and quickly developed into various editions, including translations into Chinese. Before Zhou Hexuan compiled the General History of the World, many of the world history textbooks in many Chinese universities were based on Wells's book.

So, Wells is also a great figure, who seems to have to get involved in everything, and often achieves amazing results.

Let's start with Wells's achievements in the field of science fiction, his 1914 book "The World to Be Free", in which he invented the term "atomic bomb", in which people used the energy released by atomic fission to create the ultimate weapon, causing hundreds of cities to be reduced to ashes in atomic explosions. Before World War I, he wrote "Iron Armor of Land Wars", predicting the appearance of armored tanks; In Star Wars, his Martians use "hotlines" as weapons, much like lasers discovered decades later.

This gentleman is currently working on a film called "The Future of the Internet," which predicts a world war in the 1940s. The war was characterized by the widespread use of air warfare, devastating damage to the world's major cities, and the emergence of a virtuous dictatorship to govern the globe after the war.

As early as 1895, Wells wrote "The Time Machine", expounding the theory of "four-dimensional space", conjecturing that human beings could travel through time and space at will—Einstein was still in middle school at that time.

However, he is such a bull in the world of science fiction literature, but he is keen on political theory and historical research. He was good friends with George Bernard Shaw, a member of the Fabian Society, and a proponent and advocate of progressive socialism.

Well, Wells was actually a science student. He majored in physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy and biology from university, received a BSc from Imperial College London, and was a professor of biology at the University of London as a young man.

Wells's life is a joke because he was born into a poor family, and both parents were humble servants. Because his family was so poor, Wells started working at an early age, as an apprentice in a cloth shop, a pharmacist's assistant, an elementary school teacher, and a college teaching assistant...... Anyway, he did everything, and going to college was a matter of adulthood, because he didn't have the money to pay for tuition when he was a teenager.

Wells put away Churchill's letter, opened the journal The School of Scientology, and read it with interest.

Like Churchill, Wells smiled knowingly when he saw the description of the tyrant Rudolph at the beginning. He also saw the danger of fascism and was working on a book about the world war, so it was easy to see the book's allusions to Hitler.

It's a pity that the magazine has very little content, only a prologue, and Wells feels unfinished after reading it.

Wells wrote back to Churchill: "Dear Winston, I have received your letter, and the situation concerning the League of Nations meeting is very disappointing...... That "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is really interesting, but the content is too small, do you have a follow-up manuscript in your hand......"

Churchill's reply was "yes", and then he threw over the manuscript of tens of thousands of words. Wells read the follow-up manuscript with a little disappointment, but still wanted to read it with great interest.

Although Wells is the founding father of British science fiction, he is actually a realist writer dressed in science fiction. His work has always discussed the realities of the world, critiqued the decaying capitalist system, and advocated the utopian socialism of the future.

Although "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" also has a certain degree of realistic criticism, it essentially belongs to "heroes" or "knights". The original work is a hodgepodge, Rudolph borrowed from Hitler, the escape of the rebels borrowed from our party's Long March, and the overall world structure was born from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the seemingly gorgeous interstellar war is actually no different from "Romance of the Gods".

The book repeatedly emphasizes that the two protagonists are intelligent and superhuman, but in fact, they give the supporting characters a halo of mental retardation, such as Rubinsky, a hegemon like one side has no shining point at all.

Zhou Hexuan was still copying the first few chapters, but the more he copied it, the more he felt wrong, so he thought about revising the plot to at least improve the IQ of the main supporting characters. As a result, the writing speed has slowed down a lot, and there is no guarantee that I can write 10,000 words in half a month.

Maybe the Japanese writers' writing is more verbose, there are too many argumentative nonsense in the original work, Zhou Hexuan can delete it anyway, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of words will be deleted.

In any case, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" began to be serialized in the United Kingdom, attracting a lot of science fiction enthusiasts.

Wells himself wrote: "I have read about 60,000 words of the book 'Galaxy', and aside from the entertainment elements in it, I can think of it as a work of political metaphor. The author seems to want to explore the relationship between national polity, ideology and individuality, trying to find a model that is most suitable for the survival and development of human beings. The author has shown great creative ambition and designed a grand narrative framework in which humanity has achieved the creation of the galaxy more than a thousand years later, but the vileness of human nature and the corruption of politics have not changed...... Due to the lack of content in the current series, I can't make a more in-depth evaluation, but I am very much looking forward to its follow-up plot, which may become a cosmic epic of the future of mankind. ”