Churchill received a follow-up manuscript of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" sent from China, which contained about 50,000 words. After reading it, he became even more depressed because there were too few updates to the novel, and he didn't know when he would be able to see the subsequent chapters.
Due to Churchill's initiative, Zhou Hexuan's novel manuscripts were sent directly to him and were submitted to magazines after he had read them.
It was impossible for Churchill to do such a trivial matter by himself. He replaced his servants and ordered: "Send the manuscript to the magazine "Scientific School"."
After the servant left with the manuscript, Churchill began to write to his pen pal Wells and sent it with a copy of the newly published magazine "Scientific School".
Three days later, Wells, who had just returned from an interview in Geneva, received Churchill's letter.
"Dear Wells:
I haven’t corresponded with you for a long time. I heard that you went to Geneva to cover the League of Nations meeting. I wonder what’s new there...
Recently, I read a science fiction novel called "Legend of the Galactic Heroes", written by the famous Chinese author Zhou Hexuan. This science fiction work is very interesting. For example, it mentions the 'subspace jump navigation method'.
Concepts such as 'electronic computers', etc. Especially the concept of star battleships are very similar to your work "Star Wars"..."
Wells is over 60 years old. He is one of the founders of British science fiction. Now he rarely writes long stories and has changed his career to a political theorist and journalist.
Wells was very familiar with Zhou Hexuan because he was also a historian and had written the book "Outline of World History".
"Outline of World History" was introduced to China during the Northern Expedition and quickly developed into various versions, including even translations in classical Chinese. Before Zhou Hexuan compiled "General History of the World", many of the world history textbooks in many universities in China were based on Wells.
The book is based on the original version.
Therefore, Wells is also an awesome person who seems to be involved in any field and often achieves amazing achievements.
Let’s first talk about Wells’s achievements in the field of science fiction. His 1914 work “The World Got Free” invented the term “atomic bomb” in which people used the energy released by atomic fission to create the ultimate weapon.
, causing hundreds of cities to be reduced to ashes in atomic explosions. He wrote "Armored Armor" before World War I, predicting the emergence of armored tanks; and in "Interstellar War", the Martians he wrote used "hot wires"
"As a weapon, it is very similar to the laser discovered decades later.
This gentleman is currently writing a novel called "The Future World", which predicts that a world war will break out in the 1940s. This war will be characterized by the widespread use of air combat, causing devastating damage to major cities around the world.
A benign dictatorship emerged to govern the world.
As early as 1895, Wells wrote "The Time Machine", expounding the theory of "four-dimensional space" and conjecturing that humans can travel through time and space at will. At that time, Einstein was still in middle school.
However, he was such an outstanding person in the world of science fiction literature, but he was keen on political theory and historical research. He was good friends with Bernard Shaw, both members of the Fabian Society, and they were also the proposers and advocates of progressive socialism.
Well, Wells is actually a science student. He majored in physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy and biology at university. He received a Bachelor of Science from Imperial College and was a professor of biology at the University of London when he was young.
It is ridiculous to look at Wells's life, because he was born in a poor family, and both his parents worked as humble servants. Because the family was so poor, Wells started working very early, as an apprentice in a cloth shop, a pharmacist's assistant,
Elementary school teacher, university teaching assistant... Anyway, he has done everything. Going to university was a matter of adulthood because he had no money to pay tuition when he was a teenager.
Wells put away Churchill's letters, opened the magazine "School of Science", and read it with great interest.
Like Churchill, Wells smiled knowingly when he saw the description of the tyrant Rudolf in the opening chapter. He also saw the danger of the spread of fascism and was writing a work about the world war, so it was very easy to read the story in the book.
Allusions to Hitler.
Unfortunately, the magazine serialized very little content, only a prologue. Wells felt unsatisfied after reading it.
Welles wrote back to Churchill: "Dear Winston, I have received your letter. The situation at the League of Nations meeting is very disappointing... The "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" is indeed interesting, but the content is too little.
Do you still have any follow-up manuscripts in hand..."
Churchill's reply was "Yes", and then he threw tens of thousands of words of manuscripts over at once. Wells finished reading the subsequent manuscripts, a little disappointed, but still eager to read the rest.
Although Wells is the founder of British science fiction, he is actually a realist writer disguised as science fiction. His works have always discussed real problems, criticized the decadent capitalist system, and advocated a utopian future.
socialism.
Although "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" also has a certain degree of realistic criticism, it is essentially a "hero novel" or a "chivalry novel". The original work is a hodgepodge. Rudolf borrowed from Hitler, and the escape of the rebels borrowed from our party's Long March.
, the overall world structure was born out of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the seemingly gorgeous interstellar war is actually no different from "The Romance of the Gods".
The book repeatedly emphasizes that the two protagonists are super-intelligent, but this actually gives the supporting characters an aura of mental retardation. For example, the overlord of one party, such as Rubinski, has no shining points at all.
Zhou Hexuan was still copying the first few chapters, but the more he copied, the more he felt something was wrong, so he thought about revising the plot and at least raising the IQ of the main supporting characters. In this way, the writing speed slowed down a lot, and he could finish it in half a month.
There is no guarantee that I will write 10,000 words.
Perhaps Japanese writers are more verbose in their writing, and there is too much argumentative nonsense in the original work. Zhou Hexuan deleted it whenever he could, and he probably had to delete tens of thousands of words.
No matter what, "Legend of the Galactic Heroes" began to be serialized in the UK, attracting the enthusiasm of many science fiction enthusiasts.
Wells himself wrote a review: "I have read about 60,000 words in the book "Galaxy". Putting aside the entertainment elements, it can be regarded as a political metaphor. The author seems to want to explore the national political system, ideology and
The relationship between individuals, trying to find a model that is most suitable for human survival and development. The author shows strong creative ambition and designs a grand narrative framework. Humanity has realized the pioneering of the galaxy more than a thousand years later, but human nature
The despicability and political corruption have not changed... Since there is too little serialized content at the moment, I cannot make a more in-depth evaluation, but I am very much looking forward to its subsequent plot, which may become a cosmic epic in the future of mankind."