Li Mu had seen both the movie version of "The Divergent" and its novel version in his previous life, the difference was that the movie he watched at that time was the English version, while the novel he read was the Chinese version.

The total word count of the Chinese version of "Divergent 1" is about 220,000 words, and if he puts all his energy on this novel, it will only take half a month to complete the creation of the Chinese version. But he still has to be busy with the later stage of "Super Body", to participate in various official and semi-official activities, to attend various evening parties, salons, seminars, etc. in the entertainment industry, so it was not until the end of January 07 that he finally completed the creation of "Divergent 1".

After knocking on the last period, Li Mu stretched a big lazy waist, and then he glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer - 20:27, it was not too late, Li Mu immediately dialed the phone number of Qin Li, the editor of Science Fiction World Magazine.

"Sister Li, I have written another book, which is still oriented to Europe and the United States, and I still have to trouble you about domestic and foreign publishing."

"You're writing books again?"

Qin Li originally had a little cold these days, although it was not a big problem, but she also felt that her whole body was weak and she was drowsy all day long, but she didn't expect that she would become energetic in an instant now, as if she had even ventilated her nose that had been plugged for two days.

"Well, but this time I only wrote the Chinese version, and I have to trouble Sister Li to help find a reliable translator."

"No problem at all, don't worry, you must find the top literary translator in China."

"That's troublesome Sister Li, I'll send the novel to Sister Li's mailbox immediately."

"Okay."

After a while, Qin Li really received a new email, and she couldn't wait to download the work.

"Divergent?"

What are you talking about?

Unlike works such as "The Martian", "Inception" and "Interstellar", this novel does not have any useful content from the title alone.

Qin Li poured herself a cup of hot water, took two cold medicines, and then sat down in front of the computer and opened the file.

"We have a mirror in our house, which hangs in the hallway on the second floor, with a sliding plate in front. As a member of a selfless family, I would sit in front of the mirror on the second day of the beginning of every three months, waiting for my mother to cut my hair. ”

As the reading deepened, Qin Li quickly figured out the setting of the novel.

The heroine of "Divergent" Tracey lives in a time when humanity is divided into five factions - honest, erudite, fearless, friendly, and selfless, and those who are abandoned by these five factions become non-factional and live a vagabond life.

Tracey was born into the Selfless faction, but eventually chose the Dreadnought. As a result of the personality test, she was a divergent, someone who should have been killed by that society, and she was warned not to tell anyone, including her own parents.

……

"Whew!"

Qin Li was lazy, it was already three o'clock in the morning, but her spirit was still extremely excited. Seven hours, 220,000 words, I read it in one sitting, and there was no emotion similar to irritability and boredom, she already vaguely felt the potential contained in this book.

In the past two years, the two most popular novel series sold in the European and American book markets are Stephanie Mayer's "Twilight" and Li Mu's "The Hunger Games".

Qin Li has studied the reasons why these two series are so popular, and she also has some personal experience, and this "Divergent" brings her the feeling:

"If you like Twilight or The Hunger Games, you're going crazy about this Divergent!"

……

Editorial Department of Science Fiction World Magazine.

A female editor turned her head and asked, "Why didn't Sister Qin come today?" ”

Yang Feng edited: "It should be a cold and a serious one." ”

A male editor with glasses said, "Sister Qin has had a cold for a long time this time. ”

Yang Feng said: "It's been long enough, it's been more than a week." ”

"By the way, how many of Li Mu's books have sold combined?"

"24 million copies, the total sales of the "Hunger Games" two-part series are 21 million copies, and the five novels of "The Martian", "Inception", "Gravity", "Interstellar" and "The Moon" have sold a total of 3 million copies."

"Why do you say that books such as "The Martian" and "Inception" can't sell "The Hunger Games"? It feels like the latter five novels are of higher quality. ”

"Maybe there is a threshold for reading the last five novels. Take "The Martian" as an example, listen to Qin Li's editor, this book has been registered with NASA. Dozens or hundreds of current or former NASA staff, everyone collectively found fault with this book, and in the end, they couldn't find a few obvious loopholes! Although the Martian survival method written inside seems to be unclear, and the professional terms are thrown out one by one, smashing the readers, in fact, most of the content written in the book is really very operable! For that reason, this book is God's work! But it is precisely because of this that this book has a higher reading threshold than "The Hunger Games". ”

"That's right, the same goes for Inception. Read it once, it's a little confused, and then go back and watch it carefully for the second time, this time after reading it, it seems to understand whether you understand it or not, and then the key plot goes to the third time. Now I finally completely sorted out the plot -, and then knelt directly, God! I think the vast majority of readers are actually not very brainy, so there is no way, "Inception" just can't sell "The Hunger Games". ”

""Inception" is actually easy to understand, and "Interstellar" is really a big head to watch - relativity, quantum mechanics, five-dimensional space, time dilation, gravitational slingshot."

"Especially the time dilation theory in it."

"After reading the novel, I read a lot of related works, and after reading it, I seemed to understand it for a moment, but after a while, I thought about it carefully, and my brain was actually still a mess."

"Just a few theories made me lose sleep for several nights. In those days, my mind was full of the universe, time and space, relativity, and the like, which was simply uncomfortable for people to scratch their ears and cheeks. ”

"Just this kind of novel, if you like it, you will kneel directly, but when you meet someone who doesn't like it, you don't like to use your brain, how can this kind of book be as enjoyable as "The Hunger Games"!"

Several people were discussing, and Editor Qin Li pushed the door in, with two big black circles on his head, but his spirit was unexpectedly good.

"Li Mu sent me the new book last night, and I stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning to read it."

After speaking, Qin Li sat in front of the computer and operated:

"The novel has been sent to the work mailbox, if you are interested, you can take a look."

When all the editors heard this, they all took immediate action, downloading and reading.

This is Li Mu's new book, how can everyone not be interested?

"Divergent" is a typical American novel, with no urine point blockbuster mode throughout the whole process, all kinds of dazzling tests and challenges, and wonderful and exciting plots wave after wave.

But the best part of the novel is actually the author's construction of the worldview, and the divergents do not belong to any classification:

They have the helpfulness of the altruists, but they are not as selfless as the altruists.

They have the honesty of the honesty, but they want to keep their privacy.

They have a polymath spirit of exploration of the unknown and a thirst for knowledge, but they do not want to treat these as the whole of life.

They have the kindness and friendliness of a friendly faction, but they are also well aware of the contradictions between people.

They have the bravery and determination of the dreadnoughts, but they can't let go of their truest fears.

They are dangerous to the world, as they cannot be controlled by their own characteristics like the other five factions.

Because they have this quality, but they also have other qualities.

The presence of the divergent frightens the manipulator, who believes that such a person should not exist.

They are afraid that "unique" will spread.

If the number of divergents increases, then the world's classification of human beings will become meaningless, so the divergents must be eliminated.

……

In the afternoon, it is close to the end of work.

"What do you think of the book 'Divergent'?" Editor Qin Li saw that everyone had almost finished reading, so she asked.

"It's okay, but I actually prefer Li Mu's "The Martian."

"It's exciting, but the degree of shock is still not as good as Li Mu's "Inception"."

"It's very enjoyable to read it in one go, but if you discuss the depth of the novel, this book is actually not as good as Li Mu's debut novel "The Moon".

"The plot is tense and exciting, and the world view setting is also very innovative, so it can be said that the reading experience is very good. But after reading it, I always feel that this book is far less shocking than the "Three-Body Problem" that Da Liu just finished. ”

After listening to everyone's opinions, Qin Li said: "I feel the same as everyone else, but the problem is that the problems of "Divergent" and "The Hunger Games" also exist all. ”

Everyone in the editorial department was shocked when they heard this.

That's right! "Divergent" does have a lot of problems, and it's nowhere near that deep, but what about The Hunger Games?

But The Hunger Games sold 21 million copies in the United States!

And what about Divergent?