Yu Dong invited Yang Xiao to the office. He searched for the teapot for a long time but couldn't find the tea, so he could only pour her a cup of boiled water.
"President Yang, the conditions are poor, so I can only ask you to make do with it."
"It's already very good." Yang Xiao shook his head and looked around.
This is a collective office with about a dozen positions. There is no one else at the moment. Yu Dong’s position looks like a new teacher’s position. It is neater than other positions and does not put anything.
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"It seems your school is holding a sports meeting today?"
"Yes, it's over. Now the students and teachers are rushing to go home for the holidays, so there is no one in the office at the moment. This National Day, the school is closed for nine days, and even those who are far away have time to go back.
"
Colleges and universities have always been more generous in terms of holidays than the national regulations. For example, in normal times, although the country still implements single holidays, Jinyi has one and a half days off every week.
"I came to see you today, and I'm going home tomorrow. But we don't have much vacation, and we still have to work when we get back. You should have some understanding of the situation in "Science Fiction World". It was very difficult in the past few years, but it has finally improved somewhat this year.
, How dare I delay." Speaking of "Science Fiction World", Yang Xiao's slightly tired eyes glowed faintly.
Yu Dong nodded, expressing his understanding of what Yang Xiao said, and then comforted her: "President Yang, there is no need to worry too much. I am optimistic about the prospects of "Science Fiction World". With more and more contacts at home and abroad,
If there are more, domestic readers’ views on science fiction will gradually change.”
Yang Xiao didn't pay too much attention to Dong's comfort, because she had heard such words too many times, and she thought that Yu Dong was just like others, just for comfort.
But what she didn't know was that Yu Dong was not just a simple comforter, he really believed it because he had experienced the glory days of "Science Fiction World".
"Teacher Yu, I won't waste your time too much, let's get down to business." Yang Xiao adjusted his mood and said, "My purpose of coming here this time is very clear, I just want to see the "Second World"
Only then can I decide whether to serialize it in "Science Fiction World". Everyone knows the situation at the magazine, and we can't take too big a risk."
Hearing that Yang Xiao wanted to read the entire manuscript, Yu Dong said regretfully, "I'm sorry, President Yang, I have only written half of "The Second World". If you want to read the entire manuscript, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."
Hearing Yu Dong's words, Yang Xiao's eyelids jumped suddenly. She didn't expect that "The Second World" had not been completed yet.
But then she felt lucky that she didn't make a rash decision, otherwise something would really go wrong.
"However, if you want to know the whole story, I can show you my outline." Yu Dong said.
An outline?
Yang Xiao felt that reading the outline would be better than reading the part of the manuscript that Yu Dong had already written.
But she still nodded and said, "Okay, I'll look at the outline first."
"Then wait for me here for a while. The manuscripts are all in the dormitory, not far away. I'll go get them." Yu Dong stood up and said.
Yang Xiao also stood up and said, "I'll go with you."
Yu Dong frowned. Although there was a big age difference between him and Yang Xiao, bringing a woman to the dormitory would not cause any rumors.
School is not really an ivory tower.
"Is it inconvenient?" Yang Xiao keenly observed Yu Dong's expression and asked.
Yu Dong thought for a while and shook his head frankly: "No, let's go there together."
After arriving at the dormitory, Yu Dong found out the manuscript and outline he had written and gave them to Yang Xiao.
The manuscript contains nearly 200,000 words, with a total of more than 400 pages, stacked up in a thick stack.
Let’s talk about Yu Dong’s outline. He wrote more than 20,000 words and dozens of pages.
Yang Xiao held a heavy manuscript in his hand. He didn't know why, but his heart, which had been hanging in the air just now, suddenly relaxed a little.
Two hundred thousand words sounds like a small number, but when you actually hold it in your hand, you can feel its weight.
Yang Xiao knew that he couldn't read the remaining hundreds of thousands of words in a short time, so he chose to read the outline first.
Looking at it, more than an hour has passed.
Yu Dong's outline is very interesting. It is not a simple introduction to the story. It is also interspersed with some very unique inspirations. It is a bit confusing to read, so it took Yang Xiao so long.
After reading the entire outline, Yang Xiao took a long breath.
"Teacher Yu, what major do you major in? I think you seem to have a lot of research on the Internet."
Yang Xiao's first reaction after reading the outline was this. Yu Dong is also very insightful about the development of the Internet. Although she can't understand many of the things in it, her years of working in science fiction literature have given her a sensitivity in science fiction.
of nerves.
She could understand the complete network world structure shown by Yu Dong in the story. There were many insights in this outline that reminded her of Clark's paper on the development of radio, and she had many predictions.
Although we still don't know whether these predictions will come true, it is definitely obvious that Yu Dong has researched in this area.
But Yu Dong's answer made her jaw drop.
"I majored in Chinese at Yenching Normal University."
"Chinese major?"
Yang Xiao felt a strong psychological impact twice today because of Yu Dong. The first time was when he learned that Yu Dong was a young and handsome guy, and the second time was now - when he heard Yu Dong say that he was majoring in literature.
Can a literature major write science fiction?
Of course you can, but rarely.
Throughout the history of science fiction literature, most well-known writers focused on natural science in their early years.
For example, Herbert George Wells, the author of "The Time Machine", studied physics, chemistry, geology, and astronomy at the Royal Academy of Sciences when he was young.
Asimov was an assistant professor of biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine, Heinlein studied physics at the University of California and later worked as an engineer at the Naval Air Experiment in Philadelphia, and Arthur Clark served as a radar officer in the Royal Air Force.
Pilot, participated in the development of early warning radar defense system.
Besides, Zheng Wenguang, the most famous science fiction novelist in China, graduated from the Department of Astronomy.
but……
Yang Xiao thought of another person who brought science fiction literature into the electronic age. William Gibson, the author of "Neuromancer", had a degree in literature.
Thinking about it this way, Yu Dong seems to have something in common with Gibson. Both of them have literature degrees, and their works are all related to the Internet.
Chapter completed!