Niangziguan Hydropower Station.

Liu Cixin held the letter in his hand and was excited.

As a native of Jin Province, he raised his hands to approve of the decision of the Council of the Jin Provincial Science Popularization Association.

In his opinion, the country is so big, with a population of more than one billion, and there is only one science fiction magazine called "Science Fiction World", which is extremely unreasonable, especially in the case of a large number of foreign science fiction influxes into China, as a science fiction fan, he must do something about it.

Undoubtedly, starting a large-scale comprehensive science fiction magazine is a very good choice.

Thinking of this, Liu Cixin couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, he immediately found paper and pen, lay on the table, and immediately wrote.

He wrote down all the advice he could think of in this letter.

An hour later, he wrote more than 1,000 words, and at the end of the letter, he wrote: "If you need it, you can contribute it at any time." ”

Over the years, he has been constantly creating science fiction, but for various reasons, many works have not been published, if this time Jin Province can create a science fiction magazine belonging to their Jin Province, he will definitely send all the science fiction he created to them.

For these, Chen Zhen, who is in the Jin Provincial Association for Science and Technology at the moment, naturally does not know.

As the president of the magazine company that his superiors were interested in, he had just come out of the leader's office, and this time, he did not get any approved funds, nor did he have any employees, only two offices promised by the superiors.

Even so, he didn't want to give up.

No, he thought about it and finally decided to find someone.

This person's surname is Niu, and his name is Niu Erfang.

He wanted to poach her to be the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

In addition to this one, he also wants to dig someone over, but because this person is a little difficult to deal with, he is currently a little hesitant.

"Forget it, let's go find Niu Erfang first!"

Chen Zhen muttered to himself, and immediately rode on the 28 big bars leaning against the door and walked into the distance.

........

One afternoon a few days later.

Wu Yan gathered science fiction fans in Kyoto and held another exchange event.

He Yun, as an advisor of the association, naturally went to participate.

However, what he didn't expect was that in this exchange meeting, everyone's topic was on him.

The reason for this is also very simple, mainly because He Yun wrote a letter of recommendation for everyone last time, so that many people's works were successfully published by "Science Fiction World" magazine.

Moreover, some of these people's works, together with He Yun's works, will soon be published in Xiangjiang under the name of "Kyoto Science Fiction Association".

In their opinion, He Yun is definitely indispensable for this.

Therefore, the whole exchange meeting was deviated from the beginning.

In this regard, Wu Yan was also a little crying and laughing.

Fortunately, He Yun saw that the situation was not right, so he immediately brought the topic to the fact that the Council of the Jin Provincial Science Popularization Association was preparing to establish a science fiction magazine, so that the topic was corrected.

"Teacher He, are you saying that the Jin Provincial Association for Science and Technology intends to create a science fiction magazine? Wouldn't we have another sci-fi base? “

"It's really such a reason, after the establishment of a new science fiction magazine, there will definitely be a need for a large number of science fiction works, for you new science fiction writers, it is a very good choice, I strongly recommend that you wait for the magazine to be established, submit a try."

"Mr. He is right, I have also heard about this, compared with the "Science Fiction World" magazine, this newly founded science fiction magazine does have certain advantages for you new writers."

At this time, Wu Yan also nodded and agreed.

Like He Yun, he also received a letter from the Jin Provincial Science Popularization Association.

"Mr. He, Mr. Wu, my painting is good, but I am not good at creating science fiction, I have tried to submit science fiction paintings to Science Fiction World Magazine before, but they have all been lost, if as the two teachers said, then I can give it a try this time, and then submit my own sketches."

"Oh..... I think you can apply for their art editor when the time comes, your strength is not in the creation of words, but in the artistry, there is no need to force yourself to create science fiction. ”

After thinking for a moment, He Yun couldn't help but say.

"Teacher He, I have another question, you just said that the Jin Provincial Science Popularization Association intends to create a science fiction magazine, so are they the same model as the "Science Fiction World" magazine?"

"I don't know about this, and now, they're just asking us science fiction writers for advice, and we don't know some details about starting the magazine."

"Teacher He, like Xu Qin, I am studying art, can I also become an art editor?"

"Mr. He, how about if I go to them to be a copy editor?"

"Teacher He, how many people do they recruit? Are there any requirements for academic qualifications? ”

......

At this time, science fiction fans who were interested in this matter asked He Yunlai one after another.

Seeing this, Wu Yan, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help frowning, and he immediately stopped everyone: "Ahem...... Everyone be quiet, listen to me, if there is anything you want to ask, you can come one by one, if there is anything you want to ask, you can also ask me,"

"You Teacher Wu is right, if there is anything you want to ask, Teacher Wu can also answer you, and we are just suggesting, you can think about it yourself, after all, it is not a trivial matter to work in Jin Province." When He Yun said this, his face became serious.

When everyone saw that He Yun said this, they all sat down and began to ask He Yun and Wu Yan one by one.

In this way, the original sci-fi exchange meeting instantly turned into a work consultation meeting.

I don't know what they think, they don't want the original job opportunity in Kyoto, but they are rushing to work in Jin Province, and it's a unit like a magazine.

You must know that the conditions of the newly established magazine are not very good.

Originally, when "Science Fiction King" was founded, there were two employees, one was the editor-in-chief Niu Erfang, and the other was the text editor Ma Junying, and there was no American editor.

There are two offices in the office, one is the editorial room, and the other is the warehouse and the editor-in-chief's room.

This shows the hardships of establishing a magazine at that time.

…………

Half a month later, just as He Yun was thinking about his next short work, on the other side, "Science Fiction World" magazine received He Yun's manuscript.

After reading He Yun's work, Editor-in-Chief Liang directly took the work to the editing room, handed over the manuscript to the American editor, and asked her to match a few illustrations according to the manuscript as soon as possible.

After that, he turned around and went to the president's office.

As the president of the magazine, Yang Xiao is also an old man in the club.

She can serve as the president, mainly because she has her own unique set of operations for the magazine snake.

In private, Liang Dakang and Yang Xiao are also very good colleagues and friends, and they have spent the most difficult period of the magazine together.

"Lao Liang, do you have something to do with me?" Looking at Liang Dakang, who walked into his office, Yang Xiao smiled slightly and asked.

After Liang Dakang sat down casually, he hesitated for a moment and said, "You should know about the fact that the Jin Provincial Science Popularization Association intends to create a science fiction magazine, right?" ”

"Hmm...... President Li of the Association for Science and Technology has already told me, what's wrong? Isn't that a good thing? At present, we have a science fiction magazine in China, if we can have one more science fiction magazine to provoke the beam, it will inevitably bring earth-shaking changes to the entire science fiction industry, isn't this what we dream of? ”

Yang Xiao was not worried at all, and saw her say lightly.

But for her words, Liang Dakang sighed softly, and continued: "I'm not worried about this, I'm just a little worried about Comrade He Yun's side." ”

"Comrade He Yun? Do you mean that the Jin Province side will poach Comrade He Yun and serve as a columnist for their magazine? Yang Xiao immediately thought of something and said.

"It's not impossible!" Liang Dakang thought about it, and then replied.

"Don't worry! Comrade He Yun is not that kind of person, he has cooperated with our magazine for so long, do you see which of his science fiction works was voted for other magazines, besides, didn't we establish the National Science Fiction Association now? Young science fiction writers are growing up, and we can train them as much as we can! ”

Compared with Liang Dakang, Yang Xiao, the president of the magazine, sees farther.

She felt that it was impossible for the magazine to rely on He Yun alone, and it had to cultivate a large number of new young science fiction writers as much as possible, and the National Science Fiction Lovers Association was a good platform.

"Cultivating new science fiction writers? It's also a very good idea. ”

After listening to Yang Xiao's words, Liang Dakang pondered carefully for a while, and couldn't help but nod.

After a while, he seemed to think of something, and continued: "According to the tradition of our magazine, we have to hold a pen meeting this year, and we can take the opportunity to invite all those potential young science fiction writers to come over and envelop them as much as possible, Lao Yang, what do you think of this method?" ”

"Okay! I have no opinion at all, such as the little comrade Liu Cixin in Jin Province, as well as some writers in Kyoto, especially the comrade named Han Song, are very potential, and I must send an invitation letter to the two of them this time. ”

Yang Xiao's words made Liang Dakang nod, he pondered for a moment, and then added: "There is also that young man named Yao Haijun, he should still be in a forest farm in Yichun, Longjiang, I think he can also be invited over." ”

"You're talking about the young man who founded the Nebula magazine, right? This young man is still very good, and he must be invited to this pen meeting. ”

"That's right! That's him! Liang Dakang nodded.

"Have you set the time and place for that meeting?"

"Or choose Dujiangyan, right? The time is set for the end of this month. ”

"Done! I'm okay with that! ”

........

After Liang Dakang agreed with President Yang Xiao, he returned to his office.

As soon as he entered the office, he saw a knock on the door and followed him.

"Editor-in-chief, there's something I need to react to you."

"It's Li Juan! What's the matter? You said. Seeing that the person who came was Li Juan, the beauty editor of the magazine, Liang Dakang smiled and asked casually.

"It's about us starting the "Science Fiction King Pictorial" project!" Li Juan hesitated again and again, and finally told Liang Dakang about her intentions.

After hearing this, Liang Dakang sighed, and seemed to have a slight headache: "Oh......? Let me think about it again! I'll talk to President Yang about it then! ”

Regarding the idea of the magazine to set up "Science Fiction World Pictorial", the magazine has long had it internally, but because the conditions are not very mature, Liang Dakang has not started this project.

But for those editors of the magazine, they are in a hurry, after all, this is what they dream of.

No, Li Juan, who is an American editor, finally mustered up the courage to find Liang Dakang and talked about it under the "instigation" of other American editors.

However, the answer she received was still a vague one.

This disappointed her greatly!

"Alright then, editor-in-chief, then I'll go out first!" Li Juan was disappointed, so she had to say to Liang Dakang, turned around and went out.

And Liang Dakang was silent for a while, and then picked up the phone on the table.

.........

Jin Province.

Taiyuan City.

In a financial school, Chen Zhen brought a young man to the school.

Soon, the two were in front of two offices.

"Here, this is it, and from now on this will be the office of our magazine."

"President, isn't our magazine still unfounded? And isn't it too shabby here? I just looked at it like it was a financial school。。。。。 Office, right? ”

The person who said this is called Ma Junying, and he was specially dug up by Chen Zhen.

"The leaders have already agreed that the magazine will be officially launched in January next year, and although this is a little simpler, it is a place where dreams set sail, and we will definitely succeed."

Chen Zhen glanced at Ma Junying, who was following behind him, and said with a very firm look in his eyes.

"But ......"

"There is nothing that cannot be done, your editor-in-chief and superior leaders have also arranged it, called Niu Erfang, and the two of you are currently working here."

"By the way, there will be some letters sent to you in the near future, you can take a good look at them then, and I will come over to talk to you from time to time."

After speaking, Chen Zhen left Ma Junying alone and left.

Looking at the two dusty offices in front of him, Ma Junying was a little crying.

I seem to be ..... Probably "pitted".

Although he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, Ma Junying still decided to stay for the time being.

He took a broom and a rag and began to clean the two offices in front of him.

........

A few days later, sure enough, Ma Junying received more than a dozen letters.

At the same time, the editor-in-chief Niu Erfang and the president Chen Zhen also came one after another.

After reading the letters, they took one of the letters with the words "Kyoto Shidai He Yun sent" and left in a hurry.

In the blink of an eye, another few days passed.

Ma Junying, who was busy decorating the office at the moment, suddenly got news from Chen Zhen, saying that it was the final decision of the superiors, and the name of the magazine was set as "Science Fiction King", and the basic positioning of the magazine was science fiction illustrated.

In the early stage, it is divided into two columns: domestic original and foreign science fiction, and they are all issued in the form of pictorial magazines.

What made him even more confused was that the first task given to him by the editor-in-chief Niu Erfang was to find someone to draw a comic as soon as possible.

After explaining the task, she threw Ma Junying a copy of the latest issue of "Science Fiction World", and asked him to turn to the first page and draw science fiction comics according to the first science fiction.

Ma Junying opened the book "Science Fiction World" and looked at it, but he was stunned, and then seemed to think of something.

"Man Jianghong? "Prehistoric Times: The Three Emperors"

"Where do you seem to have heard of the author of this science fiction?"

"Wait...... Could it be him! ”