The writing style was the reason why Yu Jing couldn't stop reading the first chapter, but what really kept her reading for three hours straight was the story itself.
"This book is a perfect blend of Zhang Zhong's two styles, science fiction and detective. Although the background is a science fiction novel, the main story line has the style of a detective novel."
Yu Jing turned her head and saw a tall and handsome boy telling his companions about his opinions on the new book.
One of the companions nodded and said, "That's true, and the story is very compact, and it all happened within one day."
"I think the novel wants to explore something very deep. For example, the sect called Mo Se in it has been proven to be fake, but there are still a large number of believers. The androids can't understand it, and I can't explain it either."
"This is about faith. In fact, for faith, whether it is true or false, it has no impact on the faith itself. For example, my mother worshiped the Buddha, but she actually told me that she knew the Buddha was fake. She said she worshiped the Buddha.
It's because although she knows that Buddha is fake, the influence of those things in the teachings on her is true."
"Auntie is very clear. The novel has always been about the protagonist chasing androids, and what they have always discussed is the difference between androids and real people."
"The most talked about thing in the book is empathy."
"It's really hard to explain empathy. In fact, I can't understand the empathy of humans in the book. Will a cow or crocodile be killed when you wear leather shoes?"
"Of course not. This is also Zhang Zhong's prediction. After all, the world in the book has suffered catastrophes, and it must be different from ours. For example, the turtle Gong Yin Duolong was ecstatic after picking up a spider.
After putting it in a bottle and taking it home, the spider collapsed when the android cut off its legs. In fact, in our impression, if a person like Yin Duolong appeared in reality, he would definitely have no reaction to such a thing. I have also seen
There are many children of several years old who torture and kill frogs."
"Yeah, when we were kids, we killed spiders, burned ants, everything."
"So, if we use the measuring table in the book to judge bionics and humans, we might come to the conclusion that we are not human either."
"That is to say, empathy is a very strange and magical thing. It has to do with experience."
"Didn't you see how Yang Lei behaved when she was tested?"
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Yu Jing held the book and listened to the boys discussing the contents of the book. While she found it very interesting, she also couldn't help but sigh, do these readers read books so carefully now?
Or if she is a more careful reader of science fiction novels, she always forgets most of the plots in romance novels after reading them.
She wanted to join in their discussion. She also had her own opinions on several topics, but she was really embarrassed.
"Let's go to a reading club tonight."
"There will be a new book out today, so there will definitely be a lot of people there."
"It's better to have more people. There are some plots in the book that I don't quite understand. I just wanted to chat with them when I went there."
Hearing this, Yu Jing couldn't help it anymore and asked, "I'm sorry, the reading meeting you just mentioned..."
The handsome boy glanced at the book in Yu Jing's hand and said with a smile, "The branch of our school's support club is at Guole Tea House. Do you want to go? You can go with us."
"Is that okay?"
"Of course." Several boys smiled. There were fewer girls reading science fiction novels, not to mention that Yu Jing was quite good-looking, so of course they were very willing.
"Thank you then."
"No, please leave your contact information and we will contact you before you go."
"Oh, okay."
Just like that, Yu Jing and the handsome boy left each other's contact information.
After separating from the boys, she put down the trial book in her hand and went to the bookshelf to get a new one. When she was about to check out, she saw two other books by Zhang Zhong on the bookshelf. It was Zhang Zhong who had won the Nebula Award before.
The award-winning I, Robot and Dune.
She thought for a while and ran back to get one copy of each.
"I have to make up for my missed lessons," she thought.
…
There are many situations like Yu Jing's across the country. Because of the influence of the Nebula Award, many people who did not read science fiction novels before will take a second look when they go to a bookstore and see new books.
, maybe you will become a fan of Zhang Zhong.
Some people read Zhang Zhong’s novels because they were “forced out of necessity”. Now the topic of the Nebula Award has penetrated into ordinary people’s conversations. Many people suddenly talked about the Nebula Award while chatting, and then
When someone talks about the Nebula Award winner, people who don't know will feel embarrassed. There have been a few times where people who don't know will run to find out more.
Although the starting point is not very good, the result is always good. More Chinese people are willing to go into bookstores and read science fiction novels.
Zhang Zhong read the feedback from netizens on the Internet and thought it was pretty good, so he didn’t read it again. He wrote in the afternoon and studied Chinese literature in the evening. The day passed like this.
That night, he went to bed very early. After telling Pengpeng a story, he went to bed at around nine o'clock.
But he went to bed early, but some people couldn't sleep.
Chen Qing has been paying attention to the situation of new books today. He has read the reports and new book ratings on major websites. Thanks to the Nebula Award, the new book is very popular, higher than all Zhang Zhong's previous books.
At 12 o'clock in the evening, some preliminary data finally came out.
The moment he saw the numbers, Chen Qing was ecstatic. As of 10 p.m. Beijing time, the global sales of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" had reached 9.29 million copies.
And because of the time difference, many countries have just started selling it. The 9.29 million copies were mainly contributed by China. In just one Chinese market, 5.8 million copies were sold in one day. This is
An unprecedented figure. Never before has the first-day sales volume of a book in China reached this figure.
Even if this number is divided by ten, I am afraid that very few novels can achieve that, and so far, the total sales of all Huaxia novels have not exceeded this number, and many of them are Zhang Zhong's books.
Such a crazy number was achieved by "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Chen Qing looked at the table on the screen and wondered what the total global sales volume would be like in ten hours, when the total global sales volume for 24 hours was released.
One thousand and fifty? Two thousand? Or more?
Now the largest North American market has just begun. Even if it is conservatively estimated, the North American market can bring sales of two to three million copies of this book. It is basically a certainty that it will exceed one thousand and fifty copies.