Lin Zixuan came to the United States this time and brought a total of 30 manuscripts of "The Man in the High Castle".

When he was in China, he burned the original manuscript and typesetting proofs, and disposed of the manuscript paper and ink associated with the printing house, leaving no traces.

In other words, there are only thirty manuscripts left in the whole world.

He took out eighteen copies and mailed them to eighteen publishing houses in major cities in the United States.

The rest are divided into five in the United Kingdom, three in the Soviet Union, two in Japan, one in Germany, and one in China.

This is because he writes in English, which is easiest to publish in English-speaking countries, so he puts his main hopes on the United States and Great Britain, and as for countries such as the Soviet Union and Japan, it is just an attempt.

These manuscripts have had different fates in different countries.

Ten of the eighteen publishing houses in the United States did not pass the primary selection and went directly to the assistant editors.

Not every assistant editor likes science fiction, and not all assistant editors read the manuscript carefully.

Some people read the beginning and give up because they think the writing is not good, some people feel that science fiction has no future and are too lazy to read it, and some people throw it into the trash without even reading it because they are in a bad mood or have urgent matters.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in publishing houses.

The editors-in-chief of eight publishing houses saw "The Man in the High Castle", and six of them rejected it.

Most of the reasons are that there is no market potential, the setting is grandstanding, the reader's acceptance is not high, in short, it is all kinds of unoptimistic.

This shows how difficult it is for new writers to succeed in submission.

Golding's Lord of the Flies was rejected by twenty publishers before it could be published.

In the end, the two publishing houses felt that the manuscript was okay, and the key was that Lin Zixuan's statement played a role. There is no need for manuscript fees and royalties, and you can publish as you like.

One of the publishers wanted the author of the manuscript to publish it at his own expense. also wrote a letter to Lin Zixuan.

The address left by Lin Zixuan is a fake address, so naturally he can't receive letters.

The publishing house is gone. Publishing books also comes at a cost, and publishers are reluctant to waste resources on new writers.

The only remaining publishing house printed a thousand copies of The Man in the High Castle with the mentality of giving it a try, but unfortunately the printing house's warehouse caught fire and the book was burned.

However, that's not to say that "The Man in the High Castle" doesn't have an impact in the United States.

A publishing house cleans up discarded manuscripts, and the garbage truck takes them to the recycling station, where a staff member at the recycling station has nothing to do and picks up a manuscript and reads it.

A few years later, he founded an influential denomination in the United States.

He used "The Man in the High Castle" as a book of prophecy. and think that it is God's will.

God wanted to save the world, so there was this book, God gave the world two different futures, and put the choice in the hands of mankind.

Whether to be saved or to be destroyed is a matter of human thought.

He thought that the so-called castle was the heaven where God dwelt, and that the people of the castle were referring to God himself.

His theory was supported by many fanatical Christians, many of whom saw it as evidence of God's existence.

Four of the five manuscripts sent to the UK were abandoned by publishers, the last of which belonged to radical forces.

They felt that the science fiction novel was an exaggerated and bitter satire of German Nazism, as well as its portrayal of Churchill. Although it was not much, he regarded Churchill as a dictator.

The British knew better about the situation in Germany and knew that there was such a school of thought.

In this era, Nazism proposed by Hitler was called National Socialism. He borrowed the concept of socialism.

As for Churchill, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, who defected to the conservatives, he was not welcomed by the radicals.

So, the publishing house is ready to publish "The Man in the High Castle".

What people didn't expect was that it was just in time for the British general strike in 1926.

1926 year. The British Trades Union declared a national strike over miners' wages, and Churchill took a tough stance on the strike. It was also proposed to disperse the striking miners with machine guns.

Because the printing workers also joined the strike, the newspaper could not be published. Churchill ordered the publication of the British Gazette by the government.

It was during this strike that the printing house that was preparing to print The Man in the High Castle was searched, and the manuscript of The Man in the High Castle was also lost in the search.

The three manuscripts mailed to the Soviet Union went through a rigorous review process.

In 1925, the United States and the Soviet Union did not establish diplomatic relations.

Although the Soviet Union declared the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, it was not recognized by Western countries until 1933, when the United States recognized the Soviet Union and established diplomatic relations with it.

As a result, the U.S. government departments are more strict in their scrutiny of items sent to this socialist country.

They didn't end up confiscating the manuscripts of the three books, after all, there is a clause on free speech in American law, and a science fiction novel is not proof of a crime.

These three manuscripts entered the territory of the Soviet Union.

The Soviets were even more scrutinizing of items from the United States to prevent inflammatory propaganda, and for this purpose they had staff who were fluent in English.

The Soviet man shuddered when he saw the Soviet Union being captured by Germany, Germany committing genocide in the Soviet Union, and the great leader Stalin being killed.

This is a vicious attack on the great leader, this is a serious injury to the feelings of the Soviet people, this is a malicious provocation by Western countries, and such books must be destroyed on the spot.

This is how "The Man in the High Castle" ended up in the Soviet Union.

In Japan, two publishing houses received the manuscript.

The Japanese publishing house attached great importance to the manuscripts mailed from the United States and sent people to translate them, and in the manuscripts, Japan and Germany were obviously villains, cruel and vicious, and dehumanizing.

But this setting is quite interesting to the Japanese, and it is the ambition of the Japanese to divide the world between Germany and Japan.

Is it okay to just publish it like this?

They have always been arrogant when dealing with the weak, but they will be cautious when dealing with the strong.

In the face of Western countries, Japanese publishing houses should consider the consequences of publishing this book, and although it was written by an American, will the blatant publication of this book make the US Government think that Japan has the intention of invading the United States?

It is not wise to expose one's ambitions too early.

The publisher handed over the manuscript to the Japanese government's cultural censorship department, waiting for a reply, but there was no follow-up.

The manuscripts sent to Germany were refrigerated due to the negligence of the publishing house staff until a Jew discovered them a few years later, by which time Hitler had become a sought-after figure in Germany.

The Jew didn't believe the book at first, didn't take it seriously, but he regretted it.

The manuscript of the book was secretly preserved by the Jewish community, and the content of the story was passed down by word of mouth among the Jews.

A few decades later, the story of the Castle Strangers became a legend among the Jewish community. (To be continued.) )