Shenzhen and science fiction writing has natural mutual mutual mutual mutual nature ｜ Shenzhen Hong Kong book review · Writing in Shenzhen

Author:Crystal report Time:2022.09.09

Editor's note: In a certain year of Shenzhen Reading Month, Wang Nuo opened a science fiction "brain hole" for Shenzhen: If the city enters the era of the entire data in the future, the city will become a huge data living body. What should you do if you create the same exactly?

This science fiction "brain hole" originated from her observation and thinking about Shenzhen. The "Shenzhen Second Generation", who grew up in Shekou, regards the development of the city for 40 years into a miracle. Wang Nuo Nuo said that this is a very "science fiction" thing. Therefore, Shenzhen also gave birth to her science fiction story that belongs to this city. Of course, Wang Nuo Nuo also pointed out that Shenzhen's high -speed development will also bring embarrassment to imagination, which makes her unable to forget the original intention of writing science fiction when she was a child, and it was because she continued to think about the impact of urban development on science fiction literary creation.

Shenzhen and science fiction writing has natural mutual mutual mutualivity

■ Wang Nuo Nuo

▲ Wang Nuo Nuo: The author of the "Science Fiction World" magazine column, published "Earth None Answers" and "Hometown Ming". For three consecutive years, the works have been selected as "Best Science Fiction Work in China in 2017", "2018 Best Science Fiction Works in China" and "2019 Best Science Fiction Works". Won the Best Newcomer Award of the 2018 Chinese Science and Fiction Galaxy Award, the Best Newcomer Award of the 2020 Chinese Science Fiction Star Cloud Award, the 2019 Morning Star Award Code Special Award, the first prize of the 2018 Lenghu Award, and the third prize of the 2019 Lenghu Award. A number of works such as "The Night of Cold Lake", "The Method of Spring", and "The Secret of Mountains and Names" have been translated into English and Japanese, and published overseas.

Opportunity to write novels

I earned the first manuscript fee at the age of 11, which is also the first wealth obtained by my own labor in my life. What makes me even more proud of later is that I have not participated in the composition competition selected by a Chinese teacher, or I submitted the newspaper to encourage children to write columns.

At the age of 11, I was addicted to online games, and it was about the point where I put all my pocket money into this career. At that time, the online game was not as convenient as it is now. Players need to buy some cards in the newspaper, and then charge the points in the game to the game account to change the game of the game. 6 points can play for 1 hour, and 300 -point point card costs 30 yuan, which is equivalent to playing a large online game for an hour, you need to pay about 6 cents for the game company.

I may be able to recapture the computer's right to use the computer by cracking the computer password and turning the box to find a router, but the cost of the point card for 1 hour of 6 cents is really worrying. At this moment, I saw a long -term essay event on a game forum, so I wrote a novel with a semi -strategy nature. Unexpectedly, in the next week, this article has always ranked first in the list of the forum. I got the right to use the 1,000 -point coupon as expected, equivalent to RMB 100, and the game time was 167 hours.

This is undoubtedly a huge amount for elementary school students. Today, I have forgotten what copies did I play in this long 167 hours of free game time, how many netizens I met, and what kind of achievements I have achieved. The only thing I remember was the joy of redeeming the 1,000 -point coupon -I sent my forum ID and the game ID to the forum administrator, and the 1,000 -point coupon after verification went directly to my game account.

My opportunity to write novels is so realistic -to obtain readers' reading, appreciation, and clicks in words, and in exchange for some cards. This is also very suitable for Shenzhen. The style of this city that brings me a big city is simple, practical, and hard -working.

City becomes a medium

The cities in sci -fi novels always show their multiple faces, but if they are summarized by extreme refined methods, then these cities can be divided into two types of colors -dark color and completely pure white.

The dark and colorful cities belong to the chaotic night: Cyberpunk, robotics, neon lights, and sinful alleys erupt again and again. The pure white city is not a holy capital. It belongs to order: slogans, minimalist buildings, uniform uniforms, low contrast colors, and flat and utopia built by high -level high walls.

The former focuses on the conflict between science and technology, personal life, and personal happiness, while the latter assumes that after human society is highly developed, it completely abandons the insistence on individual boundaries ...

The city becomes a medium between an individual and group in a science fiction novel. It is the intake of everyone and the output of everyone. It is often abstracted into a collective will in the text.

The author of "Establishment", the US future scholar Kevin Kelly believes that about 10,000 years ago, when human beings changed the ability of the natural environment to change the ability of human beings, the first critical point appeared in society; and the first critical point; and Right now, our ability to transform our technical elements exceeds our ability to change our technical elements, and the second critical point has appeared.

The city represents the transformation of the environment for human use of technology in the past, and also represents the transformation of human beings itself in the future. Shenzhen can be said to be the focus city of technology and human conflict.

In the novel "One Day Story" (in the "Unknown to Earth"), people have disagreed with future development. Humans have divided into three stances: paying attention to material, information, and energy.

1. Choose substances, humans should cherish the entity, love nature, protect the earth, resist the excessive erosion of technology, and return to the ancient pastoral shepherd -style lifestyle; The world of the universe is realized in the server in the server; 3. Selecting energy, people's goals should be the sea of stars. People vigorously develop energy utilization technology, and finally take the interstellar fleet to overcome difficulties to march to distant star groups. In the novel, the human beings with three stances have reached a state of harmonious coexistence through a certain coincidence. But returning to reality, whether it is the news that is happening or the performance of the capital market, shows the second kind of human beings, that is, the people who choose "information", abandon the body, and sink into the universe are becoming most. From this perspective, Shenzhen is also a fairly introverted city. Under the slogan of struggle and self -worth, it is the pursuit of personal improvement and personal experience. We entrusted great trust in the online office software, but we knew very little about the neighbors of the door next door. Because colleagues are related to the enthusiastic personal career, neighbors just happened to appear in the same physical space in the same era as us in the same era.

Always misunderstand

Writing science fiction in Shenzhen is not like most people understand: as long as the high -tech inventions and high -tech lifestyles that occur around the surrounding areas are slightly improved and the text is incorporated to get excellent stories. In fact, the pragmatic, introverted temperament and science fiction novels of the city in Shenzhen are naturally mutually exclusive.

"The future is here, but the distribution is uneven." William Gibson, the author of "Nervous Waves", wrote this sentence. Shenzhen must be the area with a high concentration of "future". When the future becomes a reality, the person who lives in the future will not bother to lament the incredible future, nor will it be full of expectations to think more about the future. Because "the future" is inevitable in this city, the cheapest, the most reasonable, unlimited supply.

Writers living in the town can have the most unrestrained imagination, and the most occlusive environment can bred the best science fiction story. Because of the life that is soaked at two o'clock, the unchanged street scene and relationship network, the story you think can break away from life and reach the top of the head. In a metropolis like Shenzhen, technology penetrates into every pore without perforation, but the imagination is reality. For authors like me, the biggest challenge of writing has become a battle with 996, and hundreds of unparalleled do not have hundreds of do not. Reading news battles and exhausting battles brought about by the daytime information over the day.

Recently, I often think of writing novels in order to earn online games when I was a kid. I was very envious of myself at that time, because at that time, it seemed that everything around me did not necessarily move towards a better future.

Thank you very much for that experience. Without it, I might lose the reason for resistance. In the bombardment of the forward city machine, it has already been integrated with 996, hundreds of unreasonable messages, and the fatigue brought by the overload of information during the day. Essence

Wang Nuo Nuo's work

"Hometown Ming" Shandong Education Publishing House in June 2021