Douban 9.4 brain burning story set, black humor+horror element, dare to write!

Today Axin wants to recommend a "ancient" American drama and the screenwriter behind it:

From the first quarter of 1959 to the fifth season of 1964, the American fantasy suspense TV series "Obloss Time and Space" (also known as "Yin Yang Magic Realm") was based on the story of the 159 episodes of the imagination and absurdity. The ups and downs of the upsurge has also become one of the influential programs in the history of television; the Douban score is above 9.0.

Among the many creators of this drama, one of the life experiences of life is also very "magic" -as a British -year -old writer, Charles Bormont can be described as high -yield. Gold's love.

However, he was stuck at the age of 34. When he died at the age of 38, it was said to look like an 95 -year -old man.

Fortunately, the book "Perhaps Dreams" produced by Penguin · Light Classic allows us to have the opportunity to enjoy the master's style through the text.

The book includes a total of 16 brain -burning short stories, which can appreciate the chaos brought by reality and dream intercourse, but also feel the conflict and loss brought by the rapid development of technology; it will not only see how aliens "do" to destroy humans in the same way, " It can also appreciate the terrible witchcraft and vampires.

It can be said that the author cleaned philosophical science fiction, fun and horror, and black humor and humor, which brought readers a unique pushing novel feast.

Think of the novel world in all flowers

It may be difficult to classify the works in Charles's pen.

Some stories are full of realistic colors on the surface, but with the development of the plot, it has moved towards a weird direction. Some works are obviously science fiction, but there are many fantasy elements that are also true.

It may be the most suitable to classify his work as "pushing novels".

The so -called novels refer to some types of novels, or they cannot be completely classified as science fiction or fantasy types.

These novels are based on conjectures and do not exist in the imagination elements in the real world. The works guess and deduced possible results by changing the real or possible laws we know in the current society.

Charles Beaumont (Charles Beaumont)

Because of this, although the book is composed of only 16 short stories, it is included that Vientiane is blooming and wonderful.

Among them, "Father, Dear Father" with the theme of artificial human -oriented themes, "Father's Paradox" and time travel, and "Monster Show" with the theme of alien invasion are typical science fiction novel.

However, the most worth mentioning is the anti -utopian science fiction work with "the transformation of the whole people" as its core.

In the age of the story, all people have to transform human body when they are at the age of 18 to make them have the "most perfect" appearance and figure.

"Beautiful People" illustration

In the era of Bomont's creation of this novel, cosmetic surgery was only targeted at those who were seriously disfigured, but he predicts that he has seen the crazyness of future generations about changing his figure and appearance, which is really admirable.

As for other works, it is more complicated in terms of type.

Based on the real world as the background, the "Songs Dedicated to a Lady", "A Classic Extra -Wedding" and "New Voice", which promoted the development of the plot through wonderful "rules", can be regarded as city fantasy novels.

"Jungle", which is perfectly integrated with imagination with the magical elements of witchcraft, is a scientific fantasy novel.

In addition, the "Meeting Land", which focuses on the "assembly meeting", is a post -world doomsday work.

There are "Witch Moon" and "Men named", which are wizards and Satan, are supernatural novels.

"Witch Night" illustration

It can be said that Charles can help us find our own work to match it.

Therefore, when reading the book "Maybe Dreams", there is no need to worry about "aesthetic fatigue", because each story is a new start of a different theme.

The gorgeous conclusion of the coexistence of reversal and surprise

In addition to the colorful work type, the Eu Henry -style ending reversal is another significant feature of Charles's works.

Although there are simple plot reversal such as "The Song Dedicated to a Lady" or "A Classic Wedding Extrater", the reader can guess the ending with the clues left by the author.

"A Classic Extra -Extraordinary Love" illustration illustration

But there are no shortage of "God's reversal" that I never read in the end -when shocked, in addition to admiring the author’s brain, as readers, we can only sigh bitterly, we are so easy to be so easy The ground fell into the thinking trap of the author's design.

If it is classified to the ending of these "god reincarnation", it can be simply organized into the following three types:

The first is to use the special settings that are easy to be ignored by readers to form a reversal of the ending.

For example, the anti -kill at the end of "The Moon of the Witch" is so.

Compared to the two eternal wizards, there is no sense of existence as a "subpoena to send offer" as a preacher, and the phrase "I pick it up, anytime, anywhere" is more like a bragging. This setting is used to achieve reversal.

The same is true of "Father, Dear Father". After all, who would think of the hero who wanted to return to the death of his father in the past, he was actually an illegitimate child. The second is to use the elements such as dreams and hallucinations to achieve reversal through the switching of reality and illusions.

The most representative of which is the short story of the same name "There is a dream". By misleading the readers, the reader believes that "playground = dream, hospital = reality", creating a story structure like "Dream of Dream" like "Dream of Dreams" " Essence

"Maybe Dreams" illustration

The two articles of "Phantom Dream" and "Free Earth" also use the setting that is difficult to distinguish, making the end of the story "another possibility".

The third is based on the reversal of the character's identity to achieve the plot reversal.

For readers, without clearly explained, the characters in the story often default to "humans" in the story, and the author uses this to laid a trap.

For example, the first feeling of the "Farm" given people, it is very similar to that after the end of the world, the surviving humans gathered together to plan the way out; The assembly of a vampire, because they could not find humans who could absorb, they planned to enter a dormant state.

"Convention Land" illustration illustration

I have to say that this ending is really surprising, crying and laughing. And this method also uses this method of "Monster Show".

Thinking behind the magic text

Of course, in addition to the unexpected sense of the story itself, Charles also shows many of its own thinking through these stories.

Although the content of this part is often only a word, the length is not large, but it is precisely because of the existence of these contents that not only make the work more thicker and think value, but also the remaining taste it produces is farther than the reversal itself.

In the article "The Song Dedicated to a Lady", the author explained the disadvantages of the rapid development of society through the mouth of the elderly.

In order to keep up with the development of the times, people have become more efficient, but they also forget how to leisure, how to enjoy a real life, and how to love someone slowly.

"Song Dedicated to a Lady" illustration

As for the controversy brought about by the "artificial people" consciousness inheritance in "Follow him", and the seemingly clear and vague relationship between witchcraft and science in "Jungle" are the most commonly discussed topics of science fiction novels. The latter also discussed in depth on the acceptance of different races and cultural acceptance.

In addition, in the exploration of their own consciousness, the article "Beautiful People" mainly shows the dilemma of individuals when self -awareness and social consciousness.

Although Mary in the story is not beautiful, she recognizes her image, so she hopes to retain her own personality by rejecting "deformation"; however, this idea is to treat "deformation" as a normal mainstream society. agreed.

As a result, although she continued to resist and tried to persuade everyone to accept her thoughts, she ended up in front of the "mainstream cognition" forced execution.

And this sense of weakness also makes us feel the same in the face of the cruel reality.

The two articles of "BOC Music" and "Night Rider" discussed the severity of reputation, glory, artistic value, and life.

In order to miss the glory that can never be obtained, in order to show the best side of the band, it gives himself or others' lives, and is it worth it?

Although the author does not know his own opinions, we may have our own answers through these two stories.

"Bronze Music" illustration

Charles Bonter, a monster who died early, broke the boundary of fantasy stories throughout his life. His brain hole is the source of inspiration for countless authors and screenwriters.

This blurred illusion that the god of imagination "There is a dream may have a dream" span the distance of half a century and the distance of half the earth, and pull you and me into the eternal dream together.

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