After reading the letter sent by "Science Literature and Art", He Yun suddenly couldn't laugh or cry.

He's awarded, yes!

It's nothing more than an "honorable mentions"

The full name is "Philip K. Dick Award Honorable Mention"

Philip: K. Dick is a famous science fiction master in the United States, but this science fiction award named after him was not set up by himself, but by another science fiction scientist, Tom Disco, in honor of Philip K. Dick.

Speaking of this science fiction award, it is naturally not as famous as the world-famous science fiction awards Nebula Award and Hugo Award, but this award takes special care of new writers, although the award is issued with many restrictions, but when it is issued every year, there are often unpopular works and even new writers winning awards.

Therefore, many new science fiction writers are very much looking forward to winning this science fiction award.

However, because this science fiction award has many restrictions, such as the paperback version must be released in English in the United States, to a certain extent, it has blocked the works of many science fiction artists outside the United States, let alone Asians.

However, in July this year, at the University of Kansas in Philadelphia, the Philip K. Dick Award held by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society had a big upset.

Of course, this is not the most important thing, the most incredible thing is that for various reasons, the news of the award has been going on for a long time, and then it has reached He Yun's hands.

You must know that it has been almost four months since July.

After such a long time, the award ceremony has naturally been held a long time ago.

But so far, even the winning trophy has not been sent to him.

You can see how deep the water is.

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As for the fact that He Yun's works won awards overseas, few people in China know about it.

The reason for this, in addition to the consistent discrimination in the Western world, is also because the speed of obtaining information in China is still too lagging behind in these years.

If this is put in the future Internet era, it will not take a day for the news to spread all over the world.

However, after all, this is the first time that a mainland writer has won an award in the overseas science fiction community, no, with the "Workers' Daily" and a few other newspapers reported, some domestic science fiction writers have also published congratulatory articles in the newspaper.

Soon, the domestic public gradually learned the news.

Although most people don't know what the Philip K. Dick Award is, they do know that there are people in our country who have won glory for their country overseas.

And the domestic science fiction industry has set off a wave of science fiction submissions.

Many science fiction writers have geared up and devoted themselves to creation.

At the same time, Jincheng.

Science Literature & Art Magazine.

As the editor-in-chief, Liang Dakang will be overjoyed, because just now, his superiors finally approved his application report.

The Sichuan Provincial Association for Science and Technology decided to take the "Science, Literature and Art" magazine as the core and officially began to prepare for the World Science Fiction Annual Conference.

Originally, it was at this time that the magazine "Science Literature and Art" began to prepare for the World Science Fiction Annual Conference.

However, at the beginning, the Sichuan Provincial Association for Science and Technology did not attach much importance to this matter, and it was the editor-in-chief of the then "Science Literature and Art" magazine and his colleagues who went to Italy at all costs, which led to the World Science Fiction Annual Conference held in Jincheng in 1991.

In the middle, there was even an incident in which the member countries of the World Science Fiction Convention collectively boycotted the World Science Fiction Annual Conference held in China.

Later, it was the editor-in-chief and the Sichuan Provincial Association for Science and Technology, which began to pay attention to this matter, sent people to the Netherlands together and persuaded a number of member countries, which made the World Science Fiction Annual Conference held in Jincheng, China.

It can be seen that the development of science fiction in China is absolutely indispensable to the "Science Literature and Art" magazine.

Of course, this is all a matter of the original time and space, and in this time and space, the magazine "Science and Art" is obviously much stronger than the original timeline.

For example, the average sales of each issue of the magazine exceeded 30,000 copies, while the original time and space was less than 10,000 copies.

As for the issues that published He Yun's works, the sales of the magazine have increased several times.

As a result, it is difficult for the magazine "Science Literature and Art" not to make a profit.

When the magazine makes a profit, this confidence is naturally sufficient.

Take the science fiction essay that was planned some time ago, and the prize money alone is enough to 3,000 yuan.

Now that his superiors have officially approved his application report, Liang Dakang feels that he must take advantage of this great opportunity.

First of all, the magazine must prepare a copy of each issue of science fiction publications, as well as several works of "Man Jianghong", especially the work that recently won the honorary award of "Philip K. Dick" in the United States -- "Moon Rescue", the English version of which can be prepared a little more, and can be presented to science fiction scientists and representatives of member states at the annual meeting.

"By the way, Tong Lao and Zheng Lao both suggested that I should call Comrade He Yun at the annual meeting next year, and I must inform him of this as soon as possible."

Liang Dakang slapped his forehead, and suddenly remembered something.

But the next moment, he remembered another thing, and couldn't help whispering: "Look at my memory, in late November, isn't there still a pen meeting, I can just invite Comrade He Yun over and discuss with him about applying for the World Science Fiction Annual Conference." ”

Organizing science fiction pen meetings from time to time is a tradition that the magazine has adhered to for many years.

In the past, when the magazine was very difficult, Liang Dakang never gave up, but now that the economic situation of the magazine has improved greatly, it is naturally even more impossible to give up.

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Provincial capital.

Hunan Normal University.

The most painful thing about writing a paper is that I found a big "bug" in my paper when I was halfway through it.

At this moment, He Yun tasted such pain.

Looking at the paper in front of him, he couldn't wait to crumple it into a ball and throw it away.

"Why didn't I think of it, could it be that I had a watt in my brain at that time? I didn't even think of such a simple question! It shouldn't be! ”

He Yun opened the notebook that had been put aside while chattering.

He searched line by line, but he read all the original notes, but he never found the reason.

"Alas...... Never mind! Never mind! Victory is not arrogant and defeat is not discouraged, failure is success, isn't it just a restart, just do it! ”

After He Yun muttered "scolding", he threw aside the four or five pages of the paper he had written, picked up a new page of paper, and began to rewrite the paper.

This time, he was more careful than the last time, and he pondered for a long time almost every time he finished writing a paragraph.

A few days later, He Yun finally made up for the bug, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief when he looked at the fruits of his hard work for several days.

After hurriedly cleaning up the waste manuscript, He Yun looked at the time again, and saw that it was almost half past five in the afternoon, so he took the paper and the waste manuscript and left the library.

The time has entered the middle of November, and autumn is in full swing.

On this morning, He Yun received a letter from the magazine "Science Literature and Art" again.

The letter was written by Liang Dakang himself.

After reading the letter, He Yun wanted to decline to participate in this pen meeting.

After all, I don't have time to go to Jincheng at all.

But in the letter, Liang Dakang mentioned the World Science Fiction Annual Conference and said that he hoped that he could go to Italy together.

"Italy? Going abroad? Do you want to go yourself? ”