At 19 o'clock in the evening of September 1, the CCTV column inserted the relevant news of Li Mu's Hugo Award:

"The latest news from this station, at the 65th World Science Fiction Convention, the Hugo Award jury officially announced today that the Hugo Award for Best Long Story, Best Long Novella, and Best Short Novella Award will be awarded to Chinese writer Li Mu, Li Mu has become the first Chinese writer to win the Hugo Award in history, and also the first Asian writer to win the Hugo Award, and the first science fiction writer to win three Hugo Awards at the same time."

On the evening of September 2, Li Mu went to CCTV to participate in the recording of the program, and was busy until 11:30 p.m. before ending the recording.

CCTV host Wang Ning: "Hello Mr. Li, I didn't expect us to meet so soon, the last time I interviewed you was when the "Inception" project was just exposed."

Li Mu: "It's a great honor to be a guest on our face-to-face column twice in such a short period of time."

Wang Ning: "I understand that most of your publications were first published in the United States, can you tell us about your considerations at that time?"

Li Mu: "Because Chinese science fiction literature is in a relatively marginal position, the circle is very small, there are few readers, and the market is very sluggish, even the sales of the best science fiction works written are difficult to really exceed 10,000 copies. The easiest way to do that is to go to the mature markets of Europe and the United States."

Immediately, the camera turned, and the vast starry sky began to be played on the TV screen, and at the same time, a man's voice explained:

"From a fringe position to a hot topic, this shot in the arm came from the RB town of Yokohama on September 1. On this day, the 65th World Science Fiction Convention awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novella to Chinese writer Li Mu's work "The Martian", the Best Novella Award to Li Mu's work "Gravity", and the Best Short Novella Award to Li Mu's work "The Moon".

"The Hugo Award, the most authoritative and influential award in the field of science fiction in the world, which can be called the Nobel Prize in science fiction art, has also ushered in the first Asian winner, the Chinese writer Li Mu."

After the cutscene, host Wang Ning asked:

"Did you think you'd win a Hugo Award?"

Li Mu: "I've also thought about it, after all, have you been nominated, but the Hugo Award, I have always felt that this award is far away from us, and even the distance between the Hugo Award and the Chinese people is farther than the distance between the Nobel Prize and the Chinese people."

Wang Ning: "Why do you say that?"

Li Mu: "Because the Nobel Prize is awarded to mainstream literature, the mainstream literature in China has deep roots, and we have a lot of very good mainstream literature writers, but you have to know science fiction literature, so to speak, only American science fiction literature is developed in the world, and science fiction literature in other countries is in a downturn, and science fiction writers can't make money......

Wang Ning: "Then why is it that only the United States has developed science fiction literature in the world?"

Li Mu: "There may be many reasons why only the United States is developed science fiction and other countries are all sluggish, which may have a lot to do with the country's historical tradition and scientific and technological strength, as for the reason why Chinese science fiction literature is relatively marginal, because science fiction writers can't make money, even if we write very good science fiction in China, we can only sell tens of thousands of copies, and we can't make money writing science fiction in China, so naturally we can't attract people who are really talented in this field to really devote all their energy to this cause." We don't lack talents who can write good science fiction works, what we lack is a market that allows these people to make a name for themselves through science fiction."

"For example, a science fiction writer I know, named Liu Cixin, he wrote a book called "The Three-Body Problem", this book can be said to be the most exciting science fiction work I have read in recent years, if in a relatively mature market, this book is completely with the potential of tens of millions of sales, but how much money does this book currently make for the author?"

"Before I bought the copyright of this work, the price of "The Three-Body Problem" serialized in the magazine was 180 yuan per thousand words, and I made a total of money

More than 30,000 pieces,"

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Tay Son Province, Duong Quan City.

"Dad, your name is on TV."

Liu Cixin's daughter, Liu Jingjing, suddenly pointed to the TV set at home.

Liu Cixin and his wife rushed to the TV when they heard the news, and at this time, Li Mu was talking about the excitement of "The Three-Body Problem" in the CCTV studio.

In addition to talking about "The Three-Body Problem" in the interview, Li Mu also talked about the magazine "Science Fiction World", talked about the glorious history of this magazine, and talked about his relationship with this magazine.

On September 5th, focusing on the films produced by Huashang Media since its birth, Li Mu, chairman of Huashang Media, was interviewed by reporters. Li Mu said in the interview that he is full of confidence in the future of Chinese science fiction films, and introduced the project preparation of Huashang Media in the future, including the upcoming two super-large-scale investment science fiction film projects, and the total investment of the two films is initially estimated to exceed 1.6 billion yuan.

……

Netizens said that in 07, they could no longer find a more popular person than Li Mu.

The global hit of "Super Body" made Li Mu famous in the entertainment industry.

The casting of "Inception" was in an uproar, and the film investment of 120 million US dollars detonated the Internet, and since then, Li Mu's name has really entered the field of vision of most netizens.

Next is the legend of winning the three awards of the 65th Hugo Awards, coupled with the rolling interviews of various CCTV channels and departments, as well as the promotion of many local provincial satellite TV and municipal TV stations, in short, Li Mu deservedly became the most popular figure in China recently.

Even whenever a celebrity starts to hype up a scandal again, some netizens comment below the news:

"Don't fry it, if you just fry it again, can you still be as popular as Li Mu this year?"

In fact, it's not just Li Mu who has exploded recently, the hotline of the "Science Fiction World Magazine" has been blown up in the past two days, and the number of direct remittances to the magazine to order magazines has increased tenfold in a few days, although the data of the post office is not yet known, but it is estimated that the number of subscribers will definitely usher in a wave of explosion.

Because there is a precedent for this in previous years.

Before 1995, the sales of Science Fiction World magazine were less than 40,000, and after 95 years, it suddenly exploded to 150,000 copies per month.

Unexpectedly, after a lapse of 12 years, the same scene appeared in the magazine "Science Fiction World" again, and this time the social heat is obviously even higher than that in 95.

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On September 5, Huashang Media Company issued audition invitations to Gao Yuanyuan, Yu Feihong, Zeng Li, Hu Jing, Huang Bo, Zhang Zijian, Zhang Hanyu and others, and the actors who received the invitations all said that they would participate in the audition.

It is worth mentioning that Gao Yuanyuan was about to sign a contract with director Lu Chuan "Nanjing! Nankyo! The crew, but after receiving the invitation from Huashang, he resolutely decided to participate in the audition of the crew of "How to Steal the Key".