Crash.
It's not raining, it's Lin Yuan typing!
So hardworking!
While typing, Lin Yuan was also reviewing the entire content of "The Wandering Earth" in his mind.
Centuries ago.
Scientists have discovered unusual activity inside the sun.
According to scientific predictions, it will produce a violent explosion called a "helium flash" and expand into a huge and dim red giant that will completely engulf the Earth.
The only way for mankind to survive is to migrate to other planets!
The only feasible destination for humanity is Proxima Centauri, 4.3 light-years away.
So the United Human Government concentrated all its efforts and built more than 10,000 Earth engines, planning to fly the Earth out of the solar system and to the vicinity of Proxima Centauri after 2,500 years, or 100 generations.
If we want the Earth to fly in the direction humans want, we must first use a planetary engine to stop the Earth's rotation.
This process took 42 years and was called the "brake era."
The sun no longer rises in the east and sets in the west in one day,
Half of the Earth will be in long-term daytime, and the other half will be in long-term night.
The sun became something to be feared.
For children who have never seen the sun, sunrise is a nervous and frightening event.
It was in such a doomsday-filled situation that the Earth set sail for its new home 4.3 light years away.
The children saw a huge comet appear in the sky.
That's the moon.
In order to avoid a collision between the Earth and the Moon when the Earth accelerated, people installed an engine on the Moon to push it away.
When the Earth flies near Jupiter, it will use Jupiter's "gravitational slingshot" effect to accelerate itself out of the solar system.
The future is no longer boundless, but extremely dangerous.
What humans can see is no longer the blue sea and sky, but the cold walls of the underground city.
Education has changed.
Knowledge is forcibly divided into high and low levels, and the so-called useless subjects have become really useless:
School education is focused on science and engineering, and education such as art and philosophy has been compressed to a minimum. Human beings no longer have the leisure time for this.
This is the busiest era for mankind, and everyone has endless work to do.
There are still history classes.
It’s just that the history of the pre-solar era in textbooks is like the myth of the Garden of Eden to humans.
Love is gone.
The two people got together just to escape the loneliness of crossing the vast ice field alone.
The marriage fell apart.
Our current ethical habits have become a trivial matter.
After being accelerated by Jupiter's gravity, the Earth successfully flew to the edge of the solar system. The four-centuries-long fear of death was finally alleviated. However, instead of celebrating, humans broke out in rebellion.
Because after comparing solar images, some people found that the sun's luminosity, pixel arrangement and other parameters have not changed at all from four centuries ago.
So they exclaimed:
The sun will not explode! We have all been deceived! The Earth has been betrayed! The United Government fabricated everything and they want to dictate the Earth!
Conspiracy theories are always particularly persuasive.
Countless "Earth citizens with conscience" took up arms in anger and drove 5,000 officials and scientists of the United Government out of the Earth Engine Control Center, throwing them onto the ice of the sea, letting the severe cold of minus 100 degrees slowly take their lives.
However.
Just as the crowd who had successfully seized power were singing "My Sun" and preparing to drive the Earth back to its original orbit, a solar helium flash occurred.
Mercury…
Mars…
Venus…
These three companion planets of the Earth turned into a wisp of smoke in the radiation of hundreds of millions of degrees.
Fortunately, the earth has flown far enough away at this time.
…
Those who have read the novel will find that:
At first glance, the content of the novel and the movie "The Wandering Earth" are completely different.
The time span of the novel is very large, while the time span of the movie is very small.
The content of the movie only occupies a very small space in the novel, so much so that in the eyes of many people, the movie is just a borrowed shell of the original novel.
However.
The movie tells the perspectives of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, about the years in the underground city, about the obsession with watching the sunrise, about human persistence and sacrifice, etc.
All of them are the core provided by the novel.
The length of the movie cannot fully present the grand narrative of the novel. Even Nolan or Spielberg cannot do it. Adaptation is inevitable.
When the whole story is reviewed.
Lin Yuan wrote the last line of the novel: "Ah, Earth, my Wandering Earth..."
A novel of about 23,000 words was completed.
But there is still one thing Lin Yuan needs to do:
He replaced all references to "Earth" in the document with "Blue Planet".
This has no impact on the plot itself, just like the mentions of those place names in the novel have been replaced by Lin Yuan with certain place names on Blue Star, as long as the meaning expressed is the same.
At this time, Lin Yuan suddenly felt a little emotional:
Who could have imagined in that era that this short story, which took Liu Cixin two weeks to complete and earned him more than 2,000 yuan in royalties and more than 2,000 yuan in Galaxy Special Prize money, would eventually be made into a movie with a box office of nearly 5 billion yuan, allowing all Chinese people to see the rise of Chinese science fiction!
From this point of view, Liu Cixin is truly a hero of Chinese science fiction.
The Three-Body series of novels has shown the world that science fiction in the East is on the rise;
And "The Wandering Earth" allows the world to see that our Eastern science fiction films are shining.
certainly.
Lin Yuan admitted that this was not Liu Cixin's best science fiction novel, not even the best short story. Although the novel won the Galaxy Special Award before the movie adaptation became a hit, it was obviously not as well-known as Liu Cixin's other short stories such as "The Rural Teacher". However, the value of the novel itself is definitely worthy of recognition, and it is not even afraid of being shown to science fiction fans all over the world.
As for why Lin Yuan chose this one
Because Lin Yuan felt that he could adapt this novel into a movie in the future.
On Blue Star Lin Yuan can even make up for some of the regrets of the Little Broken Ball, such as making the scenes more grand, adjusting some of the criticized plots, and so on.
…
And when Lin Yuan completed the novel "The Wandering Earth".
People from the tribe have already contacted Weizhou science fiction writer Huyan Dabao.
At that time.
Huyan Dabo was having dinner with his friends when he suddenly received a call from the tribe contact. He seemed a little surprised:
"Release a new work on the tribe and compete with Chu Kuang from Qinzhou?"
"Yes!"
The tribe's contact person smiled and said, "If you agree to this cooperation, you will receive a very considerable reward, and you can also use Chu Kuang to become famous in all continents of Blue Star..."
"I refuse."
"Teacher Huyan Dabo..."
"I am a die-hard fan of Mr. Chu Kuang. I will not target my idol in the field that I am best at."
tribe:"?"
The foreign aid I had been thinking about for a long time turned out to be a crazy fan of Chu Kuang
Damn!
Opposite Huyan Dabao, a friend named Chen Le couldn't help smiling and slapped his thigh hard.