Having said this, Zhang Zhong stopped pretending to be stupid and said, "Dean Xu of the School of Philosophy at Jinling University did mention this matter when we were chatting. I heard what you mean, this matter
Is it going to be officially put on the agenda?”
"Well, if nothing else happens, it will be officially established at the beginning of the new year. The school will be located in our school. At that time, a separate area will be opened in the school where students' teaching and life will be." Liu Hong said.
"That's good."
"Jinling University recommended you, Mr. Zhang, to be the dean of this joint college. This idea coincides with mine, so I came here to ask about your personal wishes."
"I don't have any problem." Zhang Zhong didn't beat around the bush anymore, "I can make a contribution to my alma mater."
Maybe Zhang Zhong answered too simply. Liu Hong on the other end of the phone paused and said, "This is a good relationship. Then I will settle this matter with Jinling University. After it is settled here, maybe
I need to trouble Teacher Zhang to come to the school, we also need to discuss the specific matters of the United Academy."
"Okay, then I'll wait for Principal Liu to notify you."
"Okay, I won't disturb you anymore."
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Zhong curled his lips. Liu Hong still didn't treat him as one of his own, otherwise he wouldn't have said half the words and kept the other half.
Liu Hong called after such a long time. He must have his own concerns or even difficulties.
But he didn't elaborate, and Zhang Zhong couldn't ask in detail. When the water falls in the future, the rocks will definitely pop up.
Just when he was about to draw a lottery, he was interrupted by Liu Hong. Zhang Zhong recalled the system and took out 30,000 points for the lottery.
【Lottery in progress.】
[The lottery is completed, congratulations on winning "Ender's Game"]
Science fiction again?
What Zhang Zhong didn't expect was that he used 30,000 points to draw another copy of "Ender's Game".
He became increasingly confused about this lottery system. It seemed that there was no difference between what he could get from 10,000 points and 30,000 points.
Next time I'd better draw 11,000 points, that seems to be more cost-effective.
He thinks this way not because "Ender's Game" is not good. In fact, this book is very good and has won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award.
This book is also a comeback for the author Card. Before "Ender's Game" came out, Card had also written many novels, but his past novels had a mediocre response, but his short stories performed well.
, Zhang Zhong remembered that before "Ender's Game", Card seemed to have several short stories that were nominated for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award.
Card is also a frequent visitor to the Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards. He has been nominated for these two awards more than 20 times and won five times.
Among them, "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" in the Ender series have won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for two consecutive years, creating an unprecedented miracle in the history of science fiction.
There is another detail that many people don't know, which is that before the full-length "Ender's Game" won the Hugo Award, the short version of this book, Card's debut novel, won the Hugo Award.
Award nominations, and even won Card a Campbell Award for Best New Author.
Zhang Zhong has read eleven books in the Ender series, and the last one, "Shadows Alive", had not been officially published when Zhang Zhong left the earth.
Speaking of "Ender's Game", many non-science fiction fans may also know that this book has been made into a movie after all.
Although the movie version has received average reviews, many people who don't read science fiction novels have become aware of the book, or at least the name of the book.
In the novel, the earth is attacked by the Zerg. The International Fleet believes that it must search for talented children around the world, install monitors on the children, and send them to the International Fleet to train children if they meet the conditions they consider qualified.
Training is conducted on the space station so that humans can take the lead in the battle against the Zerg and gain hope of survival.
In this way, this book seems to be just an ordinary novel about the Zerg invasion, but in fact, unlike ordinary Zerg invasion novels, there are some different things in "Ender's Game", and these things
It is also the existence that supports the writing of a sequel to the novel.
The protagonist of this book, Ender, is just a child, and the book focuses on his psychological changes.
Especially in the final battle, Ender, who has a genius for commanding, used a super tactical weapon called Device Doctor in a training match to directly destroy the enemy's main planet and complete a genocide.
At that time, for Ender, this was just a simulation training, no different from any other simulation training. The destroyed planets and races were just some cold data to him.
But what he didn't know was that his simulated battle had actually directed the real battle through super-light Ansible communication, and everything that happened in the simulated match also happened in reality.
Without knowing anything about it, he completely destroyed the Zerg Jupiter and all the Zerg queens. It was not until after the battle that he discovered that he was being used by the international fleet, and they used his hands to exterminate the entire Zerg tribe.
Ender, who was only eleven years old, became an unprecedented mass murderer. One can imagine his psychological burden.
Some people don't understand Ender's psychological breakdown after the war. After all, from the beginning, their goal was to defeat the Zerg, and the result was the same.
However, the Zerg are not bugs, they are actually advanced beings. Ender's behavior is tantamount to massacring civilians in war. The most important thing is that the Zerg do not seem to be too aggressive, and they have no inextricable hatred with the earth.
It's just that there were some misunderstandings due to communication issues.
It is difficult for an 11-year-old child or even an ordinary adult to bear the annihilation of a family like this.
And at the end of the novel, it can be regarded as the preface to the sequel, foreshadowing the story that follows.
What makes this novel different from ordinary Zerg novels is the post-war part. How Ender and the others conspired and how they learned the truth about the Zerg makes this science fiction novel rise to a new level in theme. The discussion on war also leads to
People think deeply.
Zhang Zhong went through the plot of "Ender's Game" in his mind, and then recalled the plot of "Speaker of the Dead" that followed.
To be honest, it is really difficult to make "Ender's Game" into a movie, because if it is made into a movie, even if not a single cut is made, the final plot will not be too rich.
If possible, it might be better to condense the previous books in the Ender series into one feature-length movie.