When the news that "The Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award reached China, a chain reaction like a tsunami appeared in the continuous reports of many media!
No one could have imagined that a Chinese person could win the Hugo Award, and no one could have imagined that Zheng Qian could win the Hugo Award.
In the eyes of the public, Zheng Qian has nothing to do with the Hugo Award. Most people have no idea what the book "The Three-Body Problem" is about, and have never even heard of it.
But the fact is before our eyes, it really happened!
The famous writer Li Mo lamented on his personal Weibo: "Actually, I have paid attention to "The Three-Body Problem" because not long ago, "The Three-Body Problem" was nominated for the Hugo Award. I was very curious at the time, so I bought it and read it.
Yesterday, I just finished reading The Three-Body Problem."
"I was shocked by the universe described by the author and attracted by the incredible science fiction scenes in the book. Today, the Hugo Awards announced the winners, and "The Three-Body Problem" won the Best Long Story Award. This is really
Something that shocked me even more.”
"Especially when I saw Zheng Qian in the news, I suddenly discovered that the film "The Three-Body Problem" that I couldn't put down was actually composed by Zheng Qian, a singer I know well!"
“It’s incredible!”
"However, after reading "The Three-Body Problem", I have no doubt that Zheng Qian single-handedly raised Chinese science fiction literature to a world-class level."
"This is not without purpose. The Hugo Award won by "Three-Body Problem" is ironclad proof. This work contains a majestic story structure, magnificent and novel scientific imagination, and rich and simple humanistic reflection. Zheng Qian has brought us a
A space epic with sublime connotations, it not only conquered me, but also conquered science fiction readers around the world."
"What "The Three-Body Problem" embodies is a high-level, high-level imagination. The key lies in the self-consistency of fantasy. What Zheng Qian provides is a pure hard science fiction work that is consistent with scientific theory.
A world where all logical deductions are self-consistent.”
"Good science fiction should be about making the most ethereal and crazy imagination as real as a news report. The story should be thorough, complete and self-contained. There is no doubt that Zheng Qian did it!"
"This is the first Asian to win the Hugo Award, and the first Chinese to win the Hugo Award. It can be said that Chinese science fiction has gone beyond the mainland and contributed a master-level author to the world's science fiction!
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"History will remember this day!"
In addition to many writers and editors expressing their congratulations to Zheng Qian for winning the Hugo Award on social networking sites, many celebrities in the entertainment industry also expressed their congratulations to Zheng Qian, such as Chu Youbin, Wei Yehong, Meng Haitao, etc., who all immediately expressed their congratulations to Zheng Qian.
Qian sent a congratulatory message.
On the same day, a commentator from the People's Daily also analyzed the fact that "The Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award and published thousands of words of comments.
"We noticed that the acceptance of "The Three-Body Problem" by European and American audiences actually has a lot to do with Zheng Qian's writing style:
After a long period of development, American science fiction is now in a mixed period of various styles. Many authors pursue literary sense and cultural awareness. It is rare to see works like Zheng Qian's that construct grand space epics in a classical style.
Zheng Qian's "The Three-Body Problem" is characterized by its sci-fi concept based on the cutting-edge of science and technology. Its sci-fi concept is dense, advanced and grand, and it can easily cross cultures and languages without reducing its impact.
The plot of the story has a strong visual sense, and it is easy to leave a deep impression on readers and a broad imagination space, not to mention the freshness that comes from outside American culture..."
"Of course, winning the Hugo Award only means Zheng Qian's success on the world science fiction stage, but it does not mean that Chinese science fiction has stood at the forefront of world science fiction——
In fact, our science fiction literature is far from developed enough. It faces serious problems such as few authors, small industry scale, unstable readers, and limited market...
But today, Zheng Qian proved that our country is capable of producing science fiction masters, and we should vigorously cultivate relevant systems so that Chinese science fiction stories can spread all over the world.
At the same time, let us look forward to and wish that in the future, Zheng Qian will win a bunch of Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards and move to a higher position!"
"Today's star will shine for a long time!"
With the support and endorsement of "People's Daily", the fact that "Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award has become a hot event that the Chinese people are most concerned about.
People were excitedly discussing topics related to "The Three-Body Problem".
In addition, a large number of office workers and students bought "The Three-Body Problem" from major bookstores across the country.
Many parents line up to buy "The Three-Body Problem" in order to cultivate their children's interests and hobbies. They just want their children to have the heart to win the Hugo Award from an early age.
The whole country is rushing to buy "The Three-Body Problem", which directly makes the "Three-Body Problem" sell out of stock.
The publishing house urgently mobilized its inventory and sent the existing 100,000 copies of "The Three-Body Problem" to all parts of the country.
But this obviously can only solve the urgent needs, and greater needs are yet to come.
The printing factory received the order as soon as possible and started working overtime for printing and production. In the shortest time, one million more copies of "The Three-Body Problem" were printed.
No one thought that such a day would come.
No one expected that "The Three-Body Problem" would win the world's highest award in the field of science fiction art. Even the domestic literary circle did not pay much attention to this award, which led to a serious lack of inventory preparation for "The Three-Body Problem".
At present, the publishing house's orders are distributed to multiple printing factories. During this wave of craze, the sales volume of "The Three-Body Problem" began to rise. In almost a day or two, the sales volume exceeded the previous accumulation.
The impact of "The Three-Body Problem" winning the Hugo Award goes far beyond sales.
General Political Department Song and Dance Ensemble.
The team leader Jiang Yunqiu returned from an outing, entered the conference room, and placed the briefcase in his hand on the table.
Sitting in front of the conference table were the heads of various departments of the General Political Department Song and Dance Ensemble.
They received the message half an hour ago and were already waiting in the conference room in advance.
Among them, Wang Chuanjun, the director of the creative office, looked at Jiang Yunqiu and smiled. He had heard some rumors in advance, so he was in a good mood.
Jiang Yunqiu nodded, and after finishing some official talks in a short period of time, he took out a certificate of award from his briefcase.
She spread it out and said: "To convey the instructions from superiors, Comrade Zheng Qian, deputy director of the creative office, has been awarded third-class merit for his outstanding achievements in external performance tasks, and has been specially awarded a certificate as a token of encouragement."
When everyone saw this, they all laughed and applauded.
Everyone knows that this should be the reward when Zheng Qian led the Military Art Symphony Orchestra to tour abroad last time and achieved a complete success.
It did create a huge sensation at that time, not only in "Xinwen Lianbo", but also in the entire country, it caused a wave of related discussions. It contributed to the cause of our country's symphony and opened up fertile ground. It is natural to be awarded a third-class merit.
Who among you here does not have a third-class gong?
But Jiang Yunqiu took out a small red book from his briefcase and wrote "Certificate of Honor" in four gilded characters: "In view of Comrade Zheng Qian's positive performance in the past year, with the approval of the General Administration, he is specially awarded the 2005 Chinese Youth Core Values Leader
Character title."
When everyone saw this, they all looked envious and clapped again.
This is an honorary title.
Even Wang Chuanjun, after so many years of internal work, has only received it once.
However, considering Zheng Qian's positive performance for the party and the country at home and abroad, it is not too bizarre and completely reasonable to receive this honorary title.
Therefore, everyone present also gave positive affirmations.
I thought it was over, but Jiang Yunqiu took out a small notebook from his briefcase and continued: "This is a dictation from a superior: With the approval of the General Political Department, the work "The Three-Body Problem" created by Comrade Zheng Qian was included in the 2005 World Science Fiction
Won the Hugo Award for Best Novel at the conference. In recognition of Comrade Zheng Qian’s contribution to the field of science fiction literature, he was given a second-class merit award... The relevant medals were issued two days later."
Now the whole conference room fell silent.
Wang Chuanjun opened his mouth, almost salivating with envy.
The cadres of other departments looked at each other with expressions of admiration on their faces.
The fact that Zheng Qian won the Hugo Award caused a huge sensation after it was exposed in the media yesterday. Everyone knew about it, including the cadres working in the art troupe.
Not only did "Xinwen Lianbo" broadcast strongly, but "People's Daily" and major party media also quickly promoted it, which directly made the Hugo Award, which was originally unknown in China, famous and made Zheng Qian become everyone's eyes.
The ultimate genius and master of science fiction!
After all, this award is extremely difficult to win, even harder than the Nobel Prize.
However, after winning the award at the World Science Fiction Conference, the work "The Three-Body Problem" was immediately presented to the desks of relevant leaders.
The "Red Bank Project" described in it, as well as that special decade and the miserable life of the Chinese people, are a bit dazzling, but the overall impact of winning the award is positive.
Jiang Yunqiu also received such instructions, so in the next period of time, Jiang Yunqiu will have a good talk with Zheng Qian, asking Zheng Qian not to always write tragic stories, but to actively promote some of our country's current achievements.
But in fact, the second and third parts of "The Three-Body Problem" will no longer have relevant plots. It may be for this reason that although the second and third parts of the "Three-Body Problem" in the previous life have become more and more
The more exciting it is, but it loses the opportunity to win awards abroad.
After all, after years of regular research, it is well known that there are conditions for domestic works to win international awards.
Regardless of literature or film and television works.
For example, Mo Yan's Nobel Prize-winning works such as "Red Sorghum" or Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" are all good works.
But they all have one thing in common.
For example, a special decade, or the miserable life of the Chinese people.
The first part of "The Three-Body Problem" gives people the impression that it followed this path.
The description of the Hong'an Base and the suppression of human nature will make foreign award-winning audiences shine.
The follow-up to "The Three-Body Problem" not only featured a huge world view of the universe, but also had a group of Chinese people saving the world. This obviously did not meet the original intention of the award presenter, so it was unable to continue to win the award.
Of course, this is some public prejudice. In fact, the first part of "The Three-Body Problem" is indeed more popular abroad than the second part, but it is undeniable that the penetration in the ideological field has never stopped.
Art has no borders, but awards do.
Therefore, how to increase our own voice will be the top priority in the next external tasks.
Everyone knows this, but it is not easy to achieve it.
At this time, the entire conference room burst into applause, followed by praise for Zheng Qian.
"When I first met Zheng Qian, I felt that this guy must be a real person. You see, he not only wrote works like "The Soul of the Chinese Army", but also brought the Military Art Symphony Orchestra to the world. I heard
As I said, the Military Art Symphony Orchestra is very popular abroad now."
"This Hugo Award is also a surprise. I didn't expect Comrade Zheng Qian to secretly write science fiction, and he wrote it so well!"
"Actually, Zheng Qian is a bit underserved by staying in the studio. Such a genius can really shine anywhere."
"I met Comrade Yungang from the Air Force Political and Art Troupe some time ago, and now his intestines are full of regret, haha!"
"I have to get an autograph from Zheng Qian later. My daughter keeps clamoring to come to work every day to take photos with Zheng Qian. She doesn't know that I won't be able to see Zheng Qian..."
Everyone burst into laughter. Although they were envious of Zheng Qian for winning so many honors, they also knew that this was an honor earned by Zheng Qian based on his performance and strength over the past year, and he deserved it, so no one had any objections.
It's just that telling all the commendations of the past year at once is really shocking to everyone.
Although there are many opportunities for civilian cadres to receive honors, this is the first time that everyone has experienced such an intensive announcement of honors.
Jiang Yunqiu waited for everyone to communicate and gathered, and smiled slightly: "Comrade Zheng Qian is indeed good. Now that he has received so many honors, it can be regarded as bringing glory to our General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe. Since everyone is very satisfied with Comrade Zheng Qian's performance at this stage.
, then I propose here to promote Zheng Qian to one level, do you have any objections?"
Wang Chuanjun's eyes lit up and he said quickly: "I have no objection. Besides, Zheng Qian is still a working graduate student and has received so many commendations. I think this is in compliance with the regulations."
When the others saw this, some nodded in agreement, while others hesitated.
"If I remember correctly, Zheng Qian is now at the seventh level of civil service, right?"
"One more level, that is the sixth level of civil service. Zheng Qian is 24 years old now? This... this is too young!"
"In my impression, it is already very rare for someone in their early twenties to reach the seventh-level civilian cadre. If this goes up to another level... none of the major art troupes have such young sixth-level civilian cadres!"
"Unprecedented!"
"Yes, I remember that Zheng Qian was promoted not long ago, right? Only half a year? If he is promoted to another level..."
"I don't think it's appropriate."
"I also think it's inappropriate and the impact is not good."
When Wang Chuanjun saw these people talking nonsense, his heart suddenly became filled with unknown fire, and he slammed the table: "If you have Comrade Zheng Qian's ability, even if you mention Shao Chiang directly, I have no objection!"