Many professional book critics even feel that it is very difficult to interpret "The Matrix". Writing a book review without authorization will have very big loopholes. A mere week is not enough for them to study it.
According to incomplete statistics, there are currently tens of thousands of websites or virtual communities directly related to "The Matrix" on the Internet, and hundreds of thousands more indirectly related!
The previous pre-sales results of "Hyperion" were much better, with 1.58 million sales before the official launch. However, the sales volume in the first week was only 2.15 million copies, and the total sales were only 3.73 million copies.
"We are not here because we are free, we are here because we are not free."
It is obviously a novel, but not many people care about the plot of the novel, and no one pays attention to the skills and writing style of the novel itself. These people are paying attention to the ideological fields derived from the novel.
In fact, Lin Han also knows that after the movie is released, there will be a surge in novels. This momentum may be even greater than when the "Mars" movie drove novels!
Lin Han just wants to ask three questions: Who am I, where do I come from, and where do I want to go!
The plot of the novel is not difficult, but the plot jumps too quickly and requires concentrated analysis and thinking.
None of these things are exposed from the front, but are taken from a perspective similar to that of a paparazzi. Many of the things are just scales, but they look real!
This is human nature. Otherwise, Renmin University Publishing House would not list this novel as this year’s champion seed. There is still so much potential that can be tapped!
Because the movie "The Matrix" is worth watching over and over again, if many people don't understand the movie, they will look for novels to get the answers they want from the text.
So a few days later, Will Johnson, a big figure in the book review world and a Pulitzer Prize winner in the United States, published his review of the Matrix novel in the New York Times, firing the first shot.
There are very few book reviews about this novel in the English market, not because it is not very popular, but because book reviewers are afraid to rush into it. They need to read the novel repeatedly to fully understand the meaning it wants to express!
This is not only to promote the novel "The Matrix", but also to promote the subsequent movie, which can be regarded as a base for viral marketing.
Open your eyes now, open your eyes to find the truth of this world, don't be confused anymore, you are the savior of this world! "
But the sales volume of Lin Han's book is better than that of another book, and the word-of-mouth evaluation of one book is better than that of another book. Doesn't this mean that the next book will sell 5 million copies in the first week
"You want to know what it is? The matrix is everywhere."
This website seems relatively simple on the outside, but many contents require visitors to enter through passwords like real hackers.
Of course, such a mysterious website has attracted countless netizens to come in and explore its secrets. Many netizens have been blocked by many barriers, and only a few people who are familiar with novels and have superb skills can enter it!
Not to mention ordinary writers, just talking about top best-selling writers, there are very few who can sell 5 million copies in a year, let alone within a week!
These deep connotations are not single, but diverse. Almost everyone can make completely different interpretations based on their different knowledge structures, religious beliefs, and cultural preferences, and these interpretations can often be self-justifying within their respective discourse circles. .
The sales volume of "The Matrix" in the mainland seven days a week reached 3.1 million. Counting the original 1.32 million pre-sales, the total sales reached a level of 4.42 million.
The hacker wave has gradually evolved into hacker culture, and many people are curious about the mysterious field of hackers!
This terrible progress makes people in the book market tremble with fear. Generally speaking, after reaching the peak, it is very difficult to make further progress because the potential is insufficient!
Netizens who are addicted to it call themselves "black fans". Just like the exchange between Neo and Morpheus at the beginning of the novel, they exchange their experiences and experiences about "black science" with each other on the electronic network, and even initiate certain topics related to the novel. Discuss the details, share novels, movie shooting news, etc.
But this is not all of hacker culture. Thanks to this popular novel, a large number of "hacker communities" using the Internet as a carrier have appeared!
"Do you think this world is real? Do you think everything you see, ask, and hear is real? If you want to know the real world, you need to make a choice!"
"In the past ten days, I have been reading and reminiscing about the huge novel world of "The Matrix". You can read the novel to understand the specific plot, so I won't go into details.
I have several friends in academia who are writing an anthology about The Matrix. Once it is released, everyone will be able to see the discussion this novel brings to the academic community... "
The icons of a red pill and a blue pill appear on the computer screen. This is an obvious choice link. Different choices will jump to different pages!
"It's all around us, even in this little room. When you look out the window or turn on the TV, you can see it. You can feel it when you go to work, you can feel it when you go to entertainment. Come to it, the same goes for when you do your taxes.
Lin Han is now in a separate category in the book sales market. There is no one who can even compete with him. He has even begun to go abroad to compete with the world's top best-selling authors.
If you don't know "The Matrix", you are out!
These photos seem to be indistinguishable from the real ones. Netizens know that they are fake and are probably movie scenes, but they can't help but feel a chill behind them.
This result has undoubtedly broken the first-week sales of new books in the past ten years, and is far higher than the sales of any previous book by Lin Han in the same period!
When people were inspired and determined to become hackers, they began to instill in these people the hacker's "code of conduct", "the art of asking questions" and so on.
Under such circumstances, Lin Han's long-planned official website also surfaced. This is a website that their company spent a lot of money to build and is as complex as the world in the movie.
Scientists demonstrate the possibility of human-computer connection and virtual reality technology in "The Matrix"; science fiction novelists discuss the reference and development of classic science fiction consciousness in "The Matrix"; philosophers debate the relationship between cognition and science embodied in the novel. Ontology, people with different religious backgrounds dissect novels in order to find their preferred religious meaning, while ethicists explore the dilemma of choice between fantasy and reality.
When people think of hackers, they probably think of computer experts with disheveled hair and depressed looks.
Countless netizens were inspired by this passage. Everyone is a savior!
This hacker frenzy came so fast and urgent that many people didn't even realize it. Everyone around them was talking about the novel and the filming of the movie.
This text gradually emerged from the monitor, as if it was answering questions for netizens, but another text that followed immediately made people's hearts beat!
"Listen to me, I know why you're here. I know everything you do, I know why you have trouble sleeping, why you live alone, why you sit in front of your computer day and night."
From the earliest days, they worked hard to clarify to people that "hacker" is not a derogatory term and does not refer to criminals who invade computer networks.
Rarely has a science fiction novel inspired as many types of long-term reflections as The Matrix. Not only readers enjoy doing these thinking, but experts and scholars also participate in it. I call this the hacker culture wave.
From beginning to end, the core idea of this novel is about cause and effect. Everything in the world has a cause and effect. The deep information revealed behind the novel is fascinating.
Western philosophers are doing the same thing as Chinese philosophers. They are all studying the practical significance reflected in this novel, but they started much later than the Chinese philosophers.
When people figured it out, they started telling people how to be a hacker and comparing hackers to painters.
Although both Chinese and English physical books were released on the same day, China has had a free online version for a long time. Although it is a bit inconvenient to read, doing research means overcoming all kinds of difficulties!
These websites or communities related to "The Matrix" also play a role in screening members. If you are not technically qualified, you will not be able to get in!
What appeared in the eyes of these few people were some revelations that looked very real. The documentary-style photos showed many things, including blurry photos of mechanically growing humans, the terrifying tentacles of mechanical octopuses, and tin... The desolation of An World.
This novel is being talked about on Weibo, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even the WeChat public account. After more than half a year, Lin Han has achieved such good results in his new science fiction novel. As his fans Of course I am extremely happy.
Different from last year's quantity accumulation, this year he took the quality route, but the effect still seems to be very good. Readers are quite willing to buy it and rate the novel very highly!
The entire website has a gloomy tone, and green program codes slide down from time to time. This is actually Lin Han's reference to some renderings of the movie version, and he got them here first to let netizens quench their thirst!
It’s selling like crazy, it’s just selling like crazy!
It is the world that blinds you and prevents you from seeing the truth!
When netizens enter these websites, they more or less feel the similarity between reality and the plots of novels, and the boundaries between fantasy and reality are once again blurred in reality.
This novel does say a lot. Lin Han uses matrices to explain fatalism, causality, human nature, relativity, mechanical materialism, dialectical materialism, etc. In other words, several major systems in the world of human philosophy have been completely explained by Lin Han in his novels.
Since most of these people are proficient in computers and the Internet, many of them are hard-core figures, and there are even real hackers hiding among them.
After the New York Times took the lead, other book reviewers began to analyze it, but they did not dare to make big claims.