Zheng Qian was a little confused for a moment. He felt that he was not the one who was nominated, but the editor Zhang!
"You changed your number, Stephen couldn't contact you, and you didn't reply to the email, so he called me."
Zhang Hanting said with a smile: "I am so excited. There is really no writer in China who has won the Hugo Award. There are even very few nominees, and they are all nominated for short and medium stories, such as the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
There was not even a single nomination, so as soon as the news of your nomination came to me, all the old comrades in our magazine were dancing with joy. We will publish this news in "Science Fiction World" magazine to let all readers and readers in the industry
The author knows..."
"It would be embarrassing not to win the award!" Zheng Qian said with a smile: "There is no need to make such a big fanfare, it is just a nomination. We will wait until we actually win the award."
Zhang Hanting disagreed: "Zheng Qian, do you really not know what the Hugo Award represents to you? Its influence is higher than the Galaxy Award. It is the world's leading science fiction literary award. You won the Hugo Award.
You are a master writer, and science fiction fans all over the world will read your works!"
"And as long as you are nominated, it means that you have the ability to win awards. After the shortlist is officially announced, the nominated works will experience a sales peak. It does not mean that only winning awards will have the opportunity to increase sales."
Zheng Qian suddenly understood and quickly thanked him.
He hardly belongs to the group of writers. After all, he has only written one "The Three-Body Problem" from beginning to end. Subconsciously, he still regards himself as a pure singer-songwriter or actor.
Listening to Zhang Hanting's excited words at this time, he suddenly felt a sense of identity. Especially at the end of the phone call, Zhang Hanting revealed his intention to invite Zheng Qian to join the Writers Association. Zheng Qian felt a little happy in his heart.
When I was involved in the self-media circle in my previous life, I was used to seeing many Internet writers longing for the Writers' Association. It was not about the substantial benefits that joining the Writers' Association would bring, but the self-identification of the profession of "writer".
Of course, for Zheng Qian, this joy was only for a moment. After thinking for a long time, he still declined politely: "I am not a professional author. I wrote "The Three-Body Problem" just by chance. Maybe there will be no other books except the Three-Body Problem in the future.
The output of other works, so..."
"You are already a winner of the Galaxy Award, and now you are nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. If you are not a professional author, then what are the professional writers in the Writers Association?"
Zhang Hanting felt a little ridiculous, and laughed and said: "Don't refuse, absorbing you into the Writers Association will only have advantages and no disadvantages, and it will not delay your work, nor will it affect your life."
It was hard to refuse such kindness, so Zheng Qian reluctantly agreed.
After Zhang Hanting hung up the phone, he immediately started working on Zheng Qian's joining the Writers' Association.
At the same time, the movie "Latent" starring Zheng Qian participated in the Spring Festival release in Hong Kong. After two days of fermentation on the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, its reputation instantly soared.
Although Zheng Qian only had a few minutes of scenes, his appearance also added many gimmicks to the movie "Insidious", attracting countless fans to watch.
However, it is a pity that "Latent" cannot be released in mainland China due to content reasons.
Although it lost the mainland market, it was released simultaneously in the first batch of five regions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, Japan and South Korea, and ten Southeast Asian countries are also scheduled to be released in the second batch half a month later.
Although Hong Kong films are increasingly declining, their afterglow is still there. The era when the whole of Asia was shrouded in Hong Kong films is still vivid in our minds, and its influence cannot be eliminated in a short time.
In particular, "Insidious" is a movie starring Liu Yihua, Tony Leung Chi-wai, and Tsang Li-wai. The director Zhao Wenhui is also the godfather of Hong Kong movies. It received rave reviews at the premiere. It can be said that it was already highly anticipated before it was released.
On the day of the release, which coincided with the Spring Festival, the audience came as scheduled. The attendance rate in almost every venue was over 70%, which made the industry very excited and shouted for the return of Hong Kong movies to its former glory.
The performance overseas is also quite impressive, with frequent good news.
At the beginning of the new year, "Latent" has made a turnaround.
Zheng Qian had actually received an invitation to the premiere of "Insidious" earlier, but he felt that he didn't have many scenes in the film and his contribution was not significant. In addition, he was still preparing for the Spring Festival Gala at the time, so he declined the invitation.
Now that I heard "Insidious" has received rave reviews, I am also happy for the crew.
In comparison, "A World Without Thieves" starring Liu Yihua, Xu Ruoying, Zheng Qian, Ge Yun, and Zhang Bingqiang has gone through many hardships.
Although the script was polished by Zheng Qian, it was still stuck when it was submitted for review and the relevant departments refused to approve it.
According to director Feng Xiaolong's internal information, because the subject matter is relatively sensitive, it required strict review. Fortunately, after cutting out some clips, it passed the review smoothly.
However, there is no need to worry about releasing it during the Spring Festival. Firstly, the relevant departments will not approve it. Secondly, the time is too tight, the theater schedule is full, and the promotion and distribution will not be able to keep up.
So after final discussion, the date was decided on the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first lunar month, February 23rd.
Prior to this, the distributor Yefu Film and Television Production Company also invested heavily in vigorous promotion. Unlike "Insidious" which was released throughout Asia, "A World Without Thieves" currently has no other release channels and only relies on the mainland market.
Therefore, calling on movie fans to go to the cinema has become a top priority for the publicity and development parties.
Because of the 20 million investment from Yuexiang Media, the publicity and distribution funds of "A World Without Thieves" are very sufficient. People can easily see the "A World Without Thieves" on buses, subways, airports and other places in major cities.
Poster.
In addition, Feng Xiaolong, Liu Yihua, Xu Ruoying and others began to appear on various major TV programs to promote new movies, and he can be called a model worker.
As an investor and one of the starring actors, Zheng Qian did not participate in the promotion of the film. He only received an invitation from Yefu Film and Television Production Company for the premiere at the Binjiang Cinema in Donghai City one week before the release.
This time he had to go, after all, he had invested money.
Therefore, Zheng Qian, who was leisurely enjoying the Spring Festival holiday at home for a week, notified Fei Fei, Mao Miaorui and others who were about to start work on the day before the eighth day of the first lunar month, and asked the team to fly to the East China Sea.
Ren Xin was also ready to go, waiting for Zheng Qian to come to greet her.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, early in the morning, Zheng Qian said goodbye to his parents, drove to a nearby car wash shop, washed Ren's Mercedes-Benz E-Class, and ran to a gas station to fill up the tank.
He drove to Futian District and handed the car back to Ren Hao.
Although Ren Hao said he didn't care, he still glanced outside and inside the car with his peripheral vision while laughing. He couldn't help but be extremely satisfied with Zheng Qian. Under the farewell of everyone in the Ren family, Ren Hao personally drove Zheng Qian and Ren Hao.
Xin heads to the airport.
Before leaving, Ren Hao said to Zheng Qian with an ambiguous smile: "How many years older than you are I am, and I have some experience in life."
He glanced at Ren Xin, who was getting her boarding pass, and then lowered his voice: "Take action when it's time to take action. Don't hesitate to avoid missing a good opportunity."
Zheng Qian: "???"
Seeing Ren Hao's excited look, Zheng Qian sighed, lowered the brim of his hat, and dragged his suitcase through the security check with Ren Xin.
Ren Xin said goodbye to Ren Hao. Seeing Zheng Qian's gloomy look, she smiled and said, "In a bad mood? Didn't you receive any lucky money during the New Year?"
Zheng Qian glanced at her, shook his head and sighed.
With the innocent look on Sister Xin's face, she was still counting the money with a smile even if she was sold by her own brother!
With this wave, the security inspector and some passengers finally noticed that Zheng Qian was extraordinary. They all whispered in surprise, picked up their mobile phones and started taking pictures.
When the security inspector saw Zheng Qian, who had taken off his hat and mask, his face suddenly turned red.
He took the detector and checked his whole body several times. It wasn't until Zheng Qian asked, "Is it okay?" that the security inspector immediately took a step back as if on reflex and made a gesture of invitation.
Just at this moment, Zheng Qian had already been taken several photos by several nearby passengers. He smiled and even smiled when he saw a teenage junior high school student and asked him to take a photo with him. However, the other person
I was so frightened that I dropped my phone on the ground, causing everyone around me to burst into laughter.
After getting on the plane, the world finally became quiet.
After politely declining all the interruptions from the flight attendants, Zheng Qian put on his eye mask and was about to take a nap when he heard a broken Mandarin sentence: "Mr. Zheng?"
Zheng Qian pulled down his blindfold and looked to the side, and saw a young woman with blond hair and blue eyes in the next seat looking at him in surprise.
"you are?"
Zheng Qian felt that the other party looked familiar, but he didn't think of it for a moment.
Fanny felt as if her heart was jumping into her throat at this moment.
I met this Chinese superstar on a plane a few years ago. At that time, Mr. Zheng kept staring at her. Fanny thought he was a book fan of hers. Later, when she saw Zheng Qian on the Spring Festival Gala stage, Fanny
All of a sudden, I felt that my whole body was filled with passion, and I secretly regretted that I had missed a romantic encounter.
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Unexpectedly, we bumped into each other on the same flight today!
Is this fate? Or fate?
Fanny looked at Zheng Qian's doubtful eyes and felt a little nervous.
As the author of the North American classic bestseller "Gulliver's Fantasy Journey", although Fanny has not yet achieved financial freedom, at the age of twenty-six or seventeen, she is definitely a leader in the industry and one of the best among her peers.
Outstanding.
The royalties she received were enough to allow her to live an exquisite upper-class life for twenty years.
However, no matter how generous life is, it is still nothing without dreams, so this trip to China is also to prepare for a new book.
Meeting Zheng Qian was purely by chance.
"My name is Fanny, and I know you, Mr. Zheng!"
Fanny said in fluent British English: "We met on a previous flight, have you forgotten? I was holding a copy of "The Three-Body Problem" in my hand, and you were observing me..."
Speaking of this, Fanny's eyes were very bright: "I was very impressed by you. Later I watched the Spring Festival Gala and I knew that the star on the stage was you. I admired your singing even though I didn't understand it.
, but the tune is very sad..."
Fanny spoke English fluently and naturally, attracting the attention of many passengers and crew members in the cabin.
Zheng Qian roughly remembered it at this time. He also had some impressions of Fanny. It was because the other party was holding an English version of "The Three-Body Problem" in his hand, which aroused Zheng Qian's curiosity, so he tilted his head and looked at her.
Read some books.
Unexpectedly, the other party thought he was observing her.
Zheng Qian laughed dumbly and wanted to explain, but felt it was unnecessary, so he smiled and said in English: "Thank you for your appreciation, Miss Fanny, but you may have misunderstood. What I was observing at that time was the novel in your hand, that is,
"The Three-Body Problem"..."
Seeing Fanny's look of disbelief, Zheng Qian shrugged: "Maybe you don't believe it, but I wrote the novel "The Three-Body Problem". It was the first time I saw the English version in print..."
Fanny still didn't believe it, but that wasn't important. What was important was that she wanted to make friends with this handsome Chinese boy.
So he stood up and said to Ren Xin beside him: "Beautiful lady, can you change your seat?"
Ren Xin pointed at herself, then gave Zheng Qian a strange look, then decisively stood up and changed seats.
Zheng Qian was about to speak but stopped.
As soon as Fanny sat down, a strong smell of perfume hit her.
Zheng Qian automatically blocked his sense of smell and sighed. Is the body odor of white people so strong that it needs to be covered with such a strong perfume?
Fanny smoothed her blond hair at her temples, shook hands with Zheng Qian, and said with a smile on her face: "You said you were the author of "The Three-Body Problem," Qin? Do you have any evidence?"
Zheng Qian smiled bitterly and said, "Is there anyone here who can pretend to be someone else?"
Fanny's smile continued: "Of course, you may not know that I am also a writer. I am the author of "Gulliver's Fantastic Journey". I have been impersonated by many people. Oh, have you read this book?
?"
Zheng Qian had no impression. He didn't know much about foreign affairs, so he looked at Ren Xin.
Ren Xin also shook his head.
When Fanny saw this, she took out a beautifully packaged book from her bag. It was the North American classic bestseller "Gulliver's Fantastic Journey".
As she opened it, she took out a pen, signed her name on the title page, handed it to Zheng Qian, and said with a smile: "My dear, this is for you, this is a limited signed edition."
Zheng Qian felt goosebumps all over his body.
Many male passengers in the cabin looked envious when they saw Zheng Qian being chatted up by a foreign beauty.
The female passengers seemed to have entered Fanny's perspective, and they all watched excitedly as Zheng Qian conversed with the foreigner in fluent English.
At this time, the flight attendant noticed the situation on Zheng Qian's side, walked over and asked with a smile: "Mr. Zheng, do you need anything?"
"I want to go to the bathroom." Zheng Qian blurted out.
"Okay, come with me." The flight attendant said with a smile.
Fanny licked her tongue and moistened her lips. She watched Zheng Qian go to the bathroom and waited expectantly.
Who would have known that after waiting for two hours, Zheng Qian did not come back until the plane landed.