In fact, it is a bit early for Jiangyang to hold the World Science Fiction Convention this year, because there are many local infrastructures built for science fiction that have not yet been completed.
For example, the "Chinese Science Fiction City" mentioned by Zhang Zhong is located five kilometers south of the Tianwang Exhibition Hall. The plan was only launched in the first half of last year, and the plan was not finalized until the end of the year. It has just been launched.
Start building.
This science fiction city embodies the ambition of Jiangyang Municipal Government in cultural construction, covering a total area of 2,000 acres, including a science fiction creative education park, a science fiction world park, a popular science science fiction media base, a cultural incubation park, and a science fiction film and television shooting and research and development base.
,Chinese Science Fiction Museum...
Science Fiction City also has complete supporting facilities, and the area occupied by these commercial facilities is not included in the two thousand acres.
And this is only a preliminary plan. If the development of this science fiction city goes well, it is possible to develop the second and third phases to become a real city within a city.
However, the plan for this science fiction city will take at least three years to complete, which means that it will take about five years from start to completion. The Jiangyang government cannot wait. They urgently need to establish Jiangyang's position in the Chinese science fiction community.
Only if Jiang Yang obtains some kind of "orthodox" status in the science fiction world will the future science fiction city be smoother.
In other words, if Jiangyang had not won the right to host the World Science Fiction Conference last year, the plan for the Chinese Science Fiction City might have been delayed because the government would not be as confident as it is now.
After Zhang Zhong finished speaking, Li Yong, president of the Nanhuai Science Fiction Association, and Wang Zhenguo, mayor of Jiangyang, also went up to give brief speeches respectively.
After their speeches were over, Hilde came on stage again, holding the microphone and announced loudly: "I announce that the 2023 Jiangyang World Science Fiction Conference has officially begun. I hope everyone present can enjoy it in the next four days.
Gotta be happy.”
The opening ceremony is over, but the first day of the conference is not yet over.
The Zhiwang Exhibition Hall does not close until 11:30 p.m. During this time, members can choose to continue activities in the venue.
However, the official website organizes relatively few activities in the evening, so most members can only play on their own.
The World Science Fiction Convention has a high degree of freedom. In addition to the activities organized by the convention, other organizations can also organize their own activities within a certain range.
The ones who work the hardest are the teams in various cities that will apply for fantasy in the next few years. As long as the exhibition hall is not closed, they will basically not leave and will do their best to attract members and canvass votes.
Moreover, not all writers who come to the conference are well-known writers. Many writers at the bottom of the pyramid will choose to come out at night when there are relatively few people.
Because the great writers have left, they can attract readers' attention at this time.
There is no need to wait until the exhibition hall closes at 11:30. Starting from eight or nine o'clock, the restaurants, bars and barbecue stalls near the exhibition hall become extremely lively.
At a feast for tens of thousands of people, everyone's adrenaline levels are soaring. After the day's activities, the heart has been filled with spiritual food, and it's time to replenish the stomach with some material food.
The excitement lasted until three or four o'clock in the morning, when people gradually dispersed and returned to the hotel to rest and wait for the conference the next day.
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Zhang Zhong and his family went home immediately after the opening ceremony.
Pengpeng fell asleep halfway through the opening ceremony, and she didn't even see Zhang Zhong come on stage to speak later.
Zhang Zhong spent most of his time away from his family today, so he didn't take Pengpeng around to play. However, Pengpeng has been to the Zhiwang Exhibition Hall many times and is already very familiar with it.
According to Xu Yuhan and others, this girl played like crazy today, and her legs almost never stopped.
Zhang Zhong is not surprised at all, because any child who comes over today will have a great time.
Although they have not started reading science fiction novels yet, the science fiction peripherals displayed in the exhibition and the cosplayers that can be seen everywhere are infinitely attractive to them.
However, according to Zhang Zhong's observation, there were not many children attending the conference today.
Especially for children like Pengpeng, who are under ten years old, it may take a while to see one.
Most of them are young people between the ages of twenty and thirty-five.
In fact, this is very inappropriate, because this year the conference has made adjustments to allow adults to bring a child under 130 centimeters in for free.
But this is also a start, allowing more children to learn about the World Science Fiction Convention.
I believe it will get better and better in the future.
…
After returning home, Zhang Zhong didn't sleep. He had already started writing "Gibson".
He has been thinking about this extra episode for a while and has some preliminary ideas.
The reason why Zhang Zhong wanted to write about Gibson was actually because he felt that this guy was more like a big boss.
When I first read this book, Zhang Zhong thought that Regent Songde was the final boss, but he didn't expect that he was just the trigger that started the war, a small victim.
The reason why Zhang Zhonghui thinks Gibson is the final boss is because at the end of the novel, the scientific madman Gibbs actually said with a smile that as long as he wanted, with just a few generations of breeding, the Cheshire Cat could be restored to the less successful version it was before.
version—that is, nature’s version.
This passage makes people think a lot, and I always feel that Gibbs has the ability to subvert the world.
Gibson believes that the reason why humans are anxious and fearful is because they are too attached to the past.
Humans want to protect the "old version of people" from rust, but in fact, it is easier to design a new version of the human body that is immune to rust than to protect the old version of people.
Although the methods of expression are different, this issue has been discussed in many science fiction works.
In other words, if human souls (thoughts) are transplanted into robots, humans can live forever, but many people are not willing.
Human beings have a natural sense of superiority towards human beings themselves.
Gibson often said things that were philosophical and easy to understand, but also said things that people couldn't understand.
"We have brought the devil into the world, and nature has become something we don't recognize. It has truly become nature shaped by us. And how poetic it would be if we were swallowed by our own creation."
Such words that only a pervert can say also come from the mouth of Gibson, a scientist.
What on earth did he go through?
Let him live in this era, but have superhuman and incomprehensible thoughts?
What Zhang Zhong did was to add a new POV perspective to "Clockwork Girl".