After Penny Austin sat down, she looked sideways at the three of them.
Lind was the most uncomfortable. He and Penny Austin were connected together. Penny turned to one side and her body was almost touching Lind.
"Ahem." Lin De cleared his throat and unconsciously leaned towards Zhang Zhong, "We just had a casual chat."
Penny Austin smiled and looked at Llorente again, "Daniel, it's been a long time."
Llorente pursed his lips and lowered his head without saying anything, but Penny Austin didn't care. She moved her eyes to Zhang Zhong and smiled coquettishly, "Pz, we haven't seen each other for a long time. I originally thought that I could win the Nebula Award at the Nebula Awards."
I saw you at the award ceremony."
Zhang Chong said with a smile, "Unfortunately, I was in France signing books at the last Nebula Awards ceremony."
"Oh, France is a romantic country. I have always wanted to go there and hold a book signing. Next time we have a chance, we can make an appointment to go together."
"Didn't you do any autograph signings at the science fiction convention these days?"
Penny shook her head, "Forget it, the stadium is too big and the temperature in Wellington is too low. It's too cold to sign books at the venue."
Zhang Zhong looked at Penny's thin clothes and thought to himself, if you feel cold, you can definitely add a few more layers of clothing.
The arrival of Penny Austin made the originally harmonious atmosphere become awkward. Especially the former favorite Llorente, who saw Penny Austin like a mouse meeting a cat, and has not said a word until now.
As for Linde, he also shrank down and spoke a lot less. Zhang Zhong was left alone, talking to Penny Austin.
But then a savior arrived.
A man sitting in another group next to him, across the aisle from Penny Austin, smiled and chatted up, "Penny, your clothes tonight are very beautiful."
The other party is a young European and American man, average-looking, but wearing a suit and leather shoes, quite respectable.
When he came over from Penny Austin, this man couldn't take his eyes away and kept circling her body.
Zhang Zhong didn't know the other person, and he wasn't too interested in such a playboy, but when he came to strike up a conversation, he undoubtedly saved the three of them, so the three of them were grateful to this man.
Of course, the person who can sit in this row will not be an unknown person.
When Penny Austin was chatting with the other party, Llorente took the time to whisper, "He is Michael, a writer of emotional novels."
"Emotional novelist?" Zhang Zhong raised his eyebrows. If he remembered correctly, he should have come to attend the Hugo Award Ceremony.
Linde laughed softly and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. Michael is also a science fiction writer, but there are more emotional elements in his works. In his novels, there are often love, marriage, marriage changes, and infidelity... Maybe it's because he is good at it.
He writes about things between men and women, so many people, such as Llorente, think he is an emotional novelist."
"There is no need to explain to him, this guy is just a pornographic text seller." Llorente suddenly emphasized his tone.
Zhang Zhong glanced at Llorente, it was not like he could say this.
Although they haven't known each other for a long time, Llorente is obviously a good gentleman. They talked to a lot of people just now, and even if he didn't praise him a few times, he wouldn't scold him.
This Michael was the first person Llorente attacked tonight.
Is it because Michael is really in trouble, or is Llorente's unusual reaction related to Penny Austin?
Zhang Zhong was not very interested in such gossip. He changed the topic and said, "I saw a piece of news two days ago. Vanderbilt University published a research report in Astrophysical Letters. In the report
It shows that 15 percent of the massive stars in the universe are destined to collide in the form of black holes."
Llorente nodded, "Well, I have also paid attention to this news. In fact, they had published about the same report four years ago, but the data was 14%. Obtained from gravitational wave astronomy
Since the breakthrough, scientists have been able to detect more than a dozen pairs of very close binary black holes through gravitational collisions. However, it is not known how many of these black holes were produced by stars..."
Linde is a fantasy novelist, and Zhang Zhong is a science fiction novelist with quotation marks, so when it comes to this issue, only Llorente really has the right to speak.
In fact, do science fiction novelists need to actively learn science fiction knowledge?
After such a long period of confirmation in the science fiction world, the answer should be no.
Many science fiction writers can write lovable science fiction novels even without learning much scientific knowledge.
Because there are very few people who are as obsessed with whether science fiction novels are good or not as Chinese science fiction fans.
But even so, most science fiction writers still care more about scientific knowledge than ordinary people.
Even Zhang Zhong, a science fiction novelist with quotation marks, will pay attention to news in this area consciously or unconsciously.
Llorente is one of the experts. He even wrote a SCI paper on the relationship between celestial bodies.
Therefore, you can often see a lot of "hard science fiction" in Llorente's novels.
"The events recorded by LIGO are very useful for taking stock of the space-time resources of the universe at different times. Researchers will use general relativity to take stock of space-time resources. They can deduce the constraints at each step of the binary black hole's journey..."
Linde poked Zhang Zhong, "What is LIGO?"
"Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory." Zhang Zhong whispered back. He had just learned about this thing.
"I have thought about writing a novel about black hole collisions before, but I have never been able to get into it. In fact..."
"What are you talking about?"
Penny's voice suddenly replaced Llorente's talk.
"We are talking about black holes." Zhang Zhong said.
"What an interesting topic. I just heard Daniel say that you have a new inspiration... Oh, the ceremony has begun."
Several people looked at Hilde who appeared on the stage, and Llorente breathed a sigh of relief. He really didn't want to talk to Penny.
Hilde stood on the stage and patted the microphone, then said with a smile, "Welcome everyone to the scene, the ceremony is about to begin, but..."
Before he finished speaking, several men in black ran out from the side, covered his mouth, and dragged him away.
While the audience was in confusion, a tall, masked man wearing a blood-red robe walked onto the stage.
The masked man smiled wildly and said: "Tonight, I will take over the stage."
Seeing this person, everyone in the audience laughed, knowing that Hilde's arrest just now was a little joke.
This masked man wearing a blood-red robe is none other than Hard Wade, the villain in the famous science fiction novel "World of Mechanics".