It's fast forward to November.

The President's Office of Science Fiction World Magazine.

President Alai was handling work when assistant Xiao Wu pushed the door in.

"President, the latest post office subscription data for Science Fiction World magazine is out."

Alai continued to bow his head and work, while not raising his head, said, "Put it next to you." ”

Xiao Wu put down the data report and exited the president's office.

Ten minutes later, Alai took care of the matter at hand, and then he was ready to take a look at the latest subscription data report.

To be honest, he didn't really want to read the report.

Since 2000, when the monthly circulation of Science Fiction World reached a peak of 400,000 copies, it has been declining, and in 2003 it fell below 300,000 copies.

From a circulation of 400,000 copies to a circulation of 300,000 copies, Science Fiction World magazine only took three years, and this time coincided with the time when he became the president of the magazine, so many people counted this downward trend on his head.

This made Alai feel a little aggrieved, he became president in 03, and the circulation of the magazine has been falling since 01 and 02, how can this pot be pressed on his head alone?

also said that Alai has no feelings for science fiction, and working at Science Fiction World Magazine makes him feel inferior.

What else has he been working on transforming the world of science fiction in the direction of pure literature, but apparently his blind tossing has failed - it's just nonsense!

But when it comes to 1,000 to 10,000 copies, the magazine's sales have indeed fallen from his hands to less than 300,000 copies, and this ironclad fact makes it impossible for him to defend himself.

How much has the magazine fallen this month?

It's not going to fall below 290,000 copies, is it?

This damn environment!

Alai picked up the data report and glanced at it with some annoyance, and then a number came into his eyes, which made him dazed for a moment, and thought that he had read it wrong, and he looked at the number again in disbelief.

305000！

That's right, after a year of hovering between 290,000 and 300,000, the number of subscriptions for the magazine finally exceeded 300,000 again.

Remember last month that number seemed to be 294,000 copies?

So it's up 11,000 copies this month?

Alai was in a good mood.

However, at present, this number is only 5,000 more than 300,000 copies, and it is still not safe, and it may fall back next month.

Thinking of this, Alai immediately dialed the phone number of Yao Haijun, the deputy editor-in-chief.

"Deputy Editor-in-Chief Yao."

"President."

"There has been a slight increase in the number of subscriptions to the magazine this month, which is a good trend, which shows that your work is still fruitful and will continue. As long as we continue to pay close attention to the quality of the works, the environment of the magazine will definitely improve, and with a stable quality of works, there will naturally be a stable number of subscriptions. ”

"The president is so right, this month's sales increase, a book called "Moon" is indispensable, the most commendable thing is that this is the author's first book, given time, it is not another Liu Cixin."

Alai said: "I have also read the book "Moon", it is indeed very good, and your editorial department should work hard to stabilize the author and strive to facilitate his creation of more works. ”

Yao Haijun said: "I'm afraid it's not easy, this author's mind is not all on this, editor Yang Feng told me this, Li Mu is actually a director and screenwriter, and his first screenwriting work attracted Cheng Long's attention, and in the end, Cheng Long invested tens of millions of dollars and personally starred in the role, it is obvious that this Li Mu will have more development in the film and television industry." However, I heard that he has a special love for publishing novels in the United States, and we may be able to start with this. ”

Alai said: "You want to use the relationship between the magazine and foreign publishers to publish for him as much as possible to impress him? ”

Yao Haijun said: "The premise is that the quality of his new work is okay." ”

……

Editorial Department of Science Fiction World.

Yang Feng was reviewing the manuscript, when suddenly her mobile phone rang, and she picked it up and saw that it was Li Mu's phone.

"Hey, Li Mu."

"Editor Yang, the first part of my new book trilogy has been sent to your mailbox, if you have time, please read it, I think this book should be in line with the European and American markets, so please also ask Editor Yang to take more pains and strive to put this book on the American market as soon as possible."

Yang Feng said: "You can rest assured, our magazine has a lot of foreign resources, as long as the quality of your book is okay, there must be a way to publish it in the United States." ”

"Thank you then, Editor Yang."

"You're welcome, this is what I'm supposed to do."

Hanging up the phone, Yang Feng didn't go to see Li Mu's new work immediately, although she was full of curiosity about this new work at the moment, she still insisted on reading the manuscript she had just read halfway.

After she finally finished reading the last manuscript, she found the thing sent by Li Muxin from the mailbox, but when she downloaded the document, when she looked at the two manuscripts on the desktop, one Chinese and one English, she was confused.

"How much he wants to publish a novel in the United States! Even the English version was written together? What is this? Is it inevitable? ”

When editor Yang Feng told the other editors of the editorial department about this, the entire editorial department was instantly plunged into a sea of joy.

"Hahaha...... I said, this Li Mu is too funny, right? Who has ever seen a writer write directly with two words together? ”

"Hahaha, this thing is really funny, this Li Mu's brain circuit is indeed ...... Unusual...... Hahaha! ”

"If you write the work well, naturally someone will help you translate it into various languages, and if the work is not good, it is useless to translate it into many languages."

"His "Moon" is of a very high level, if he can write it for three or five years with peace of mind, continue to accumulate experience and fame, he may not be able to publish it abroad in the future, but he is also too anxious, how can that proverb come about? I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! ”

"It doesn't feel like his new book will be any better than 'The Moon.'"

"I don't have to feel that it will definitely not be better than "The Moon", and a work like "The Moon" is not something that can be written casually at all."

"After more than 20 years of being an editor, I have seen too many authors who thought about how to do it from the beginning, and most of these authors ended up failing, but those who only thought about writing well and didn't think about the results at all ended up succeeding."

"That's the reason, the only thing a writer can grasp is the quality of the work, so I've been persuading the authors I know not to think about how the book will be done after it is written, and the writer just needs to do his best to write it well, and that's enough."

However, these people in the editorial department are still very interested in Li Mu's new book.

"The Hunger Games, I can't tell what it's talking about just by looking at the name."

"I read the English version, to be honest, I'm quite curious about the level of translation of this Li Mu."

"It's a lot of words, isn't he a screenwriter and assistant director? How can he have time to write? Let's not talk about anything else, anyway, his efficiency is really high. ”

……

After complaining, the editors began to read the book.

After another two hours or so, by this time everyone had stopped reading, and the novel had nearly 200,000 words, so everyone naturally hadn't finished reading the work at this time.

Yang Feng's latest speech: "This book, if only in terms of depth, words, thoughts, and science fiction attributes, may really be inferior to the author's previous book "The Moon", but at the same time, I feel very strongly that the achievements of this book will far surpass "The Moon", because I can hardly stop reading now, once I start reading, I can't stop, this book seems to have some kind of magic." ”

All editors know that Yang Feng is the most disciplined person in the entire editorial department, but now she has commented that she can't stop reading at all.

What does this mean?

At this time, a young editor said: "This is a dystopian story, fast-paced, full of suspense, and you can't help but want to read it." ”

Immediately, another male editor said: "When the little girl was killed by an arrow, the heroine made an ancient gesture, a gesture of reverence and goodbye, and to tell the truth, I almost burst into tears when I saw this." ”

Another editor commented: "It's exciting, the imagination is amazing, the story is breathtaking, the plot is ups and downs, and of course, the biggest feature of this book is just as editor Yang Feng said - people can't stop after reading it." ”

Of course, there are also editors who are not optimistic about this book, and there are also a lot of them, and the evaluation of this book in the editorial department has a faint polarizing trend.