Science Fiction World Magazine, Editorial Department.

Editor Yang Feng turned his head to his colleague and said, "Da Liu's mental state has been a little wrong recently. ”

"What's wrong?" Qin Li leaned over and said.

Yang Feng said: "It seems that Da Liu had a vague idea before, and he told Li Mu the idea when he was awarded the Galaxy Award last time, but Li Mu said that if he continues to dig deeper, he will definitely be able to win the Hugo Award, and now Da Liu is serious, it seems that he has been holding back his big move recently." ”

Qin Li said: "Da Liu is such a rational person, Li Mu was bluffed in a few words? ”

Yang Feng said with a smile: "It's not just bluffing, it's just admiration, Da Liu is shouting that he will get Li Mu drunk one day." ”

"What's going on?"

"It seems to be the last Galaxy Awards dinner, Li Mu drank too much, Da Liu pestered him to talk about ideas, Da Liu said that Li Mu often said a few words casually to make Da Liu - Da Liu described it to me like this: It seems that I know that there are some good things on the ground, and I also know the general location of these good things, but because the light is too dim, I can't touch it, but as soon as Li Mu opened his mouth, he revealed a mouth full of gold teeth, and the floor was immediately illuminated, and it turned out that the thing was there!"

Qin Li was amused: "The description of a mouth full of gold teeth is apt, and 10 million novels have been sold in the United States in less than a year, isn't it golden?" ”

Yang Feng said: "The only regret is that the sci-fi flavor of "The Hunger Games" is too light, and we are a science fiction world magazine. ”

""Moon" has a strong sci-fi flavor, but it doesn't sell well." Qin Li said helplessly.

Yang Feng said: ""The Moon" has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in China and the United States combined, and it is also a bestseller in science fiction, but it can't be compared with "The Hunger Games". ”

While the two were chatting, the text message prompt on their respective mobile phones rang, and Qin Li inadvertently picked it up and took a look.

"Li Mu?"

"What Li Mu?"

"Li Mu sent a text message." Qin Li clicked on the short belief and said, "Everyone, editors, the new book has been sent to the mailbox." ”

As soon as they heard that Li Mu's new book had been sent, the two of them had no Yaxing to continue chatting, so they each went back to the computer to download the work.

Looking at the English and Chinese version of The Martian downloaded from their desktops, the two editors couldn't help but think of the day the Hunger Games manuscript arrived.

That time it was sent together in Chinese and English, and then it created a miracle.

"The Martian, this time it's a bit sci-fi."

The two of them each clicked on the document.

"Log: SOL6

I'm.

That's what I came to after much consideration.

Finished.

These six days, which were supposed to be the beginning of the most glorious two months of my life, turned out to be the prelude to a nightmare.

I don't know who's going to look at this stuff. I guess someday, someone will find out about it. Maybe 100 years from now.

Seriously, record...... Sol6, I'm not dead. The rest of my teammates must have thought I was dead, and of course they couldn't be blamed. There's going to be a state funeral a while, and my Wikipedia page reads, "Ma Yue is the only person to have died on Mars so far." ”

Seeing this, the two of them all paused slightly.

An astronaut from the National Space Administration was ordered to participate in the "Tianmeng" manned landing mission on Mars, and then the mission had an accident, and the other astronauts thought that Ma Yue was dead and returned, but Ma Yue did not die, but he was not far from death, because he was left alone on Mars?

Qin Li looked up at Yang Feng: "Log: SOL6, what do you mean?" ”

Yang Feng looked up after typing in Baidu's query: "Martian solar day, Martian solar day, the average interval between the rise and fall of the sun on Mars." It is equal to 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds, which is very close to the day of the earth. ”

Qin Li nodded, and then the two continued to look down.

The surface temperature of Mars ranges from minus 143 degrees Celsius to a maximum of 35 degrees Celsius.

The atmospheric pressure is about 1% of the earth, the atmospheric composition: carbon dioxide > 95%, nitrogen 3%, argon 1.6%, Mayue wants to survive in this environment for a year without prior preparation, in the best case, rescuers will arrive in a year, but, is this possible?

Mars grows potatoes, uses rocket fuel (hydrazine), catalyzes into nitrogen and hydrogen, and burns hydrogen to obtain water.

Thermoelectric power generation using the heat of decay of highly toxic radioactive elements,

Use the Mars Pathfinder, launched by the United States in 1996, to get in touch with Earth.

"Do you say that these methods described in Li Muxin's book can really be implemented in reality?"

At lunch, Yang Feng asked Qin Li to edit.

Qin Li said after pondering: "I don't understand a lot of things, and I don't know if Li Mu wrote it correctly, but when it comes to the part of the book that I just understand, I don't see any fault." ”

"Me too." Yang Feng nodded solemnly.

Qin Li said: "I'll send the manuscript to my friends in the publishing house in the United States today, let's see what they have to say." ”

Editor Qin Li has been in charge of the magazine's external communication work.

……

Five days later, Qin Li finally received a call from her friend at a foreign publishing house.

"I have good news and bad news here, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Good news."

"The good news is that this kind of book originally failed to meet the publishing requirements of the publishing house, but who called us friends and the author of this book is Li Mu - by the way, this is really written by Li Mu?"

"Absolutely." Qin Li said.

"It's not the same as "The Hunger Games" at all, in short, in view of our friendship and the fact that this is Li Mu's new book, I specially asked a friend who used to work at NASA to read this book together, and the friend found his friend after reading it, and then his friend found his friend's friend, and many of these friends have worked at NASA or are currently working at NASA, and then they started to get together to find fault with this novel, don't you say, they really found several faults in a few days."

Qin Li asked, "Is this good news?" ”

The other end said, "Of course it's good news!" A novel about Martian survival and rescue, a group of former NASA staff members or current NASA staff, many people who are very likely to be really responsible for landing missions on Mars in the future, everyone actually got together to discuss the possible loopholes in this novel, and after discussing for a few days, they really summed up some loopholes, don't you think it's outrageous? ”

Qin Li said: "What do you mean, most of the survival methods written in the book are feasible?" ”

The other end said, "Yes, Mars grows potatoes?" Feasible! And it's the best option; Rocket fuel to water? Feasible! Nuclear batteries for heating, it is dangerous, but it is feasible, and the SNAP27 RTG that Apollo brought to the moon can do; Using the Mars Pathfinder launched by the United States in 1996 to connect with Earth? Feasible! This probe does have a corresponding interface to connect to a computer, and it can indeed be used to communicate with the earth after the transformation; 16-base communication to contact the earth? Feasible! Gravitational slingshot effect orbit change? Feasible - feasible, feasible, feasible, all of these things are feasible by my friends, and my NASA friends laughed that this could have been used as a Martian survival guide, but most people will not need this kind of guide in their lifetime. ”

Qin Li was silent for a while after listening to her friend's words, and then asked, "What about the bad news?" ”

"The bad news is that very few of the books that my weird friends and his colleagues like sell well," her American friend said. ”

Qin Li was speechless for a long time after hearing this, and she didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed, in short, her mood was very complicated.

At the same time, the movie "Assassin" was officially launched in the United States.