Mars orphans | Create the surprise world of mapping reality with the heart of urchin

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From the early morning of July 9, 2022, I was taken in Shenzhen

Dadar effect through nature,

We seem to see a bright channel,

I can't help but think of the rise of Shenzhen science fiction capital ...

Introduction to Liu Yang

Liu Yang, a well -known science fiction writer, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a doctor of physics, and deputy director of the Science and Human imagination Research Center of Southern University of Science and Technology. Published more than millions of words of science fiction novels in journals such as "Science Fiction" and "Literature and Art Awards". The works were translated into English and German published in many countries. He has won awards such as the Chinese Science Fiction Award, Shenzhen Youth Literature Award, Gravity Award, Light Years Award, and Rogue Award. Published a collection of short stories "Perfect Doomsday", "Hive", "Wings of Light", and the novel "Mars Orphan", etc., many works are adapted into movies, TV series and anime. In addition to the creation, he also engaged in the research work in digital humanities, creative writing, condensing state physics. He has won academic awards such as Guangdong Province's Outstanding Social Sciences Popularization Work Award, Shenzhen Philosophy and Social Sciences Excellent Achievement Award. "Future Layout of Science Fiction Creation" and other works. In addition, as the chief world architect, he deeply participated in the development and production of a number of 3A -level science fiction games.

The science fiction began under our feet, flying to the vast time and space, and eventually made us better understand ourselves and the possibility of our world with transcendence.

—— Yan Feng commented on "Mars orphan"

The teacher quotes.

----- I successfully harvested self-confidence at first tasting ▏

Before encountering Wu Yan, Liu Yang would not believe that he could become a professional science fiction writer one day.

Liu Yang has loved science since he was a child. Before the college entrance examination, he read Liu Cixin's "Chaoshi", lamenting the greatness of scientists and applied for the physics major of Beijing Normal University. As the editorial of the Department of Physics Department of the Beijing Normal University, Liu Yang has begun science fiction creation during the undergraduate undergraduate, and has also been published in a large number of journals and school forums. But at this time, he only regarded these works as a pen, and he had never been confident that he could truly publish it, thinking that it was out of reach.

"The sci -fi writing course in the school can really teach you what is the second. I think the most important purpose is to encourage everyone, especially the confidence of the writing of beginners." Liu Yang is so deep because it is because it is in the fact that it is because it is in the fact that it is because it is because in the fact that it is because in the fact that it is because of the deep feelings, because it is because it is because of the in During his postgraduate period, he met Professor Wu Yan, a teacher who led him on the road of science fiction.

Professor Wu Yan of Southern University of Science and Technology ｜ Tuyuan Qilu Evening News

In the sci -fi creation elective class set up by Wu Yan, each student must submit it after completing the work. It is also officially allowed by Liu Yang, who was originally lacking confident because of this compulsory requirements. Published. This greatly encouraged Liu Yang's confidence and made him believe that he could also publish works on the official publication.

Since then, Liu Yang has insisted on science fiction creation and actively participated in essay activities. His strength has been more widely recognized. In the end, he signed a contract with the website of Beijing Science and Technology, and has a stable platform for continuous publishing works. These are very valuable experiences for Liu Yang, who has just entered the science fiction industry.

City of Science and Technology.

----- Science fiction industry is born and born ▏

After getting along after the graduate period, Liu Yang and the teacher Wu Yan became more and more familiar with each other. In 2017, Wu Yan came to Shenzhen University of Science and Technology and established the "Science and Human Imagination Research Center" to study how science fiction affects human imagination and study the brain mechanism. This is a new field of interdisciplinary research. Although it belongs to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the research content integrates interdisciplinary knowledge such as science fiction, psychology, and brain science. One day, Wu Yan invited Liu Yang to a lecture at the University of Science and Technology of China. Liu Yang learned this research center and became interested in this. As a result, at the invitation of Wu Yan, Liu Yang decided to work in Shenzhen South China University of Science and Technology and devoted himself to this study. Talking about the feelings of Shenzhen, Liu Yang first sighed: "Shenzhen is a city of science and technology." He believes that there are many cutting -edge scientific and technological applications in Shenzhen, which has promoted the development of the science fiction industry. In a city with high technology content and changing with a variety of technology, people's lives are easily affected by science and technology. Therefore, they have more expectations for the development of scientific and technological development, and science fiction novels are perfectly in line with this psychology. Therefore, from the perspective of readers, Shenzhen has soils that are very suitable for science fiction development. Liu Yang himself often attended a variety of lectures and ran all over the major libraries in Shenzhen. Each time he could deeply feel the citizens' enthusiasm for science fiction.

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From the perspective of the science fiction industry, Shenzhen has also brought many opportunities to science fiction creators. Taking the game industry as an example, many Shenzhen companies are trying to create a good 3A -level science fiction game, and many science fiction writers are planning or directed in the gaming industry in Shenzhen. As the chief world architect, Liu Yang also often cooperates with these Shenzhen game companies to help them make a world view. In his opinion, the entire science fiction industry in Shenzhen has a great demand for science fiction writers, and there is a lot of room for cooperation between the two.

Mars orphans.

----- Fresh perspective reflects society ▏

Liu Yang said that the most important thing about writing science fiction is to have a dramatic conflict. In the latest masterpiece "Mars Orphan", Liu Yang takes a two -dimensional universe he built as a basic setting. He assumes that there is only two space dimensions in the universe in the world and has a complete and independent scientific system. In some accidents, this two -dimensional universe has some connections with our three -dimensional universe, and various misunderstandings have been produced during this interconnection. As a result, the dramatic conflict of the novel came out, which led to the entire story.

The novel wrote that students found that the scientific knowledge learned on the surface looks wrong. For example, the law of gravitational gravity of Newton is not the same. All elemental cycle tables have changed. ... "A normal reader will have a doubt when reading these contents, and feels that his original cognition has been broken. This is actually a sense of surprise. Coming out. "The novel starts with the scene that people are familiar with, and when you think that he predicts his prediction, a unexpected turning is made. With the advancement of the story, the suspense will always be rendered to the end.

Liu Yang believes that the current domestic science fiction novels are either for adults or children's objects. The story is relatively simple, and YANG Adult Fiction written to young people is very scarce. "Mars Orphan" broke this point, reflecting complex, adult social problems from the perspective of teenagers.

When it comes to the feedback of the reader, Liu Yang admits that science fiction can attract readers and make readers feel very interesting and complete reading smoothly. If readers can get a reading interest that cannot be obtained in other novels, and a kind of intelligent understanding, that is the icing on the cake.

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Science fiction creation.

---- 01 close to reality highlight surprise ▏

When asked how to ensure the surprise of science fiction works, Liu Yang emphasized: "We know that science fiction novels must have things that break through traditional thinking and break through everyone's cognitive common sense, but they cannot be surprised by the whole novel." He believes that he believes that he believes that he believes that he believes that If the story of the novel happens in a completely strange scene, there is no place for humans, then it must not be an attractive novel that everyone likes to watch, because everything is surprising. In fact, everything is where everything is all places. There is no surprise. "So I think the real surprise should be that most of the scenes are familiar with everyone, and then suddenly there is something that completely jumps out of the existing scene in somewhere, and the reader will be attracted by it immediately, and then It produces a strong sense of contrast, which is the source of a real sense of surprise. "This is the first aspect of Liu Yang's consciousness to ensure the surprise of science fiction.

"In the second aspect," Liu Yang continued to share: "Everything that is beyond everyone in the novel must describe very rich details and write it as if the real reality." Liu Yang It has been revealed that when writing a science fiction novel, a lot of specific numbers will be added. Although it does not necessarily require very strict and accurate calculations, at least after a rough estimate, and cannot be estimated by simple methods, he usually uses programming to simulate simulation Essence It is these technical details that make the world created by science fiction writers more credible.

So, is it necessary to fully conform to reality technology? Liu Yang said that science fiction writers can of course be able to think of itself, but the entire novel must have internal logic to run through it. In other words, you can not rely on scientific knowledge, but you must have a scientific way of thinking. If there is neither real scientific knowledge nor scientific logic, it is not a science fiction novel, but a fantasy novel or magic novel. "For example, in" Harry Potter ", the relationship between the spell and the broom flying in the sky will never be explained. And the scientific basis; or imagine a logic that explains that there is a causal relationship between this spell and flight. Although this causal relationship does not exist in real life, it can run through the entire novel, then this can also be regarded as science fiction. "However, if you really want to involve a certain professional field, it is best to learn about real scientific knowledge first." Liu Yang put forward his own point of view. For example, to write a science fiction novel about the moon, it is not only a professional researcher of the moon to write, but at least before creating, you must understand the relevant background knowledge of the moon. Therefore, there are a lot of preparation work when writing science fiction. It is not necessary to write it immediately. It takes a lot of time to check the information. "I am the same. When I write any novels, such as writing a novel, basically the process of checking the information in the beginning of writing. When you have a lot of understanding of this thing, you know that it at the bottom What is the mechanism? At this time, you can really write confidently. "

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Science fiction creation.

---- 02 Creative source Multiple aspects ▏

For science fiction writers, creativity is the most critical strength. The creativity of each writer may not be the same, Liu Yang shared his own experience. "Generally my creativity comes from these three aspects."

The first aspect is reading. The first is the reading of novels, such as historical novels, traditional realist novels, or reasoning novels, and science fiction. In the process of reading these novels, sometimes some ideas are naturally emerged. For example, when reading a reasoning novel, when you see a trick design, you will want to construct a more delicate design on science fiction. Or when you read other novels, you may be inspired from the story and characters in the novel. The second is the reading of science into three levels. The first is science and technology news, which is the lowest level; the second is science science readings, which will give you a more systematic and deeper understanding of a scientific discovery; Essence

The second aspect is thinking exercises. Thinking practice is to ask yourself some hypothetical issues. The more ridiculous, the better, such as "Assuming that everyone on the earth will run east at the same time", "Everyone in the world will close at the same time at the same time. What will happen to the eyes "and so on. You can conceive some hypothetical issues in your mind anytime, anywhere, to train the ideological ability of this innovative scene, and to train your own thinking logical reasoning ability in the process of answering these questions.

The third aspect is to communicate with others often. Liu Yang offers science fiction creation courses at Shenzhen South China University of Science and Technology. Each time he class, he will discuss a discussion with the students and collide with a thinking. In the process of discussing with others, there may be many new inspirations.

Science fiction creation.

---- 03 The mentality of playing is the core ▏

What kind of qualities do an excellent science fiction writer need? I believe this is also a matter of concern for many science fiction creators.

As a hard science fiction writer, Liu Yang usually does a lot of scientific training. He believes that although it is not necessary to write soft science fiction novels, there should still be some basic scientific training, or at least some scientific literacy. In addition, after all, science fiction is literary creation, and basic literary literacy still needs. Basic scientific literacy and literary literacy are the prerequisite for creating science fiction.

But in Liu Yang's view, these are not the most important, and they can be trained and learned the day after tomorrow. He believes that the most important thing is to have the mentality of a puppet, and he can imagine something that is very fun and make him feel interesting. For example, Liu Cixin has a novel called "Supernova Era". Its imagination is what will it look like if the whole world is only six years old? Such an idea itself is fun, and from this basic setting, you can feel the author's mentality of the author.

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Liu Yang felt that the original intention of science fiction creation was to get fun, that is, when writing, it would be fun to write this thing, and then the reader would feel very interesting to read it. Having this mentality is more important than scientific literacy and literary literacy. This should actually be the core of science fiction writers.

From the perspective of the reader, as long as a novel is very interesting, the surprise is very creative, they will feel that watching science fiction is a process of enjoyment, and it is a process of traveling in the virtual world created by the author. , I will read it spontaneously. Therefore, when writing, science fiction writers can construct an interesting story and a new virtual world with a pupil mentality, and the works will naturally be loved by readers.

Science fiction creation.

---- 04 Long writing needs to be motivated ▏

"Mars Orphan" is the first novel written by Liu Yang. Compared with previous short stories, he deeply felt that these were two completely different creative modes and experiences. Short novels focus on stories, and long -term science fiction novels need a very large world architecture and fine shaping of characters, so their focus is not the same. Liu Yang revealed that his short stories can be completed at most a week. He will set up everything and write it out. The entire creation process can be completely stretched out. The structure of the entire chapter can be done very well rigorous.

However, it is impossible for a novel to be written within a week, and it is possible for half a year to a few years. Therefore Think about the specific details. This brings a lot of problems. Like other writers, because the time span is too long, it is written that it will inevitably deviate from the original idea. At the same time, in the process of long -term creation, it will continue to jump back and forth, continue to modify, increase deletion, and replenish. Liu Yang believes that in this case, there is a need to have a ultimate goal to motivate himself, that is, to imagine a final scene as the direction of creation. For example, in "Mars Orphan", the scene of Amu at the end of the story in the hydropower station has become an incentive for Liu Yang to write down.

Science fiction status.

----- Optimistic scarcity downstream lags ▏

In the 1930s and 1940s, it was an American science fiction golden era. At that time, most science fiction works were technical optimism, and scientists could solve all problems. With the changes in the creative environment of science fiction, most of the current writing directions in science fiction are relatively dark, such as currently popular Cyberpunk, steam punk, anti -utopian, waste soil novels, doomsday themes, etc. Liu Yang believes that this is actually a technical reason, that is, if you write a darker future, it will be relatively easy in the structure of the story.

However, Liu Yang insisted on believing that optimistic imagination can also be written, and made some attempts for this. For example, his novel "Train Flying to the Moon" tells a story that solves the technical disaster through technology, and his other novel "Single Pole During" tells the social problem through technology. In recent years, this technological optimism novel has been relatively rare, but this is also relatively scarce in the current composition of science fiction. In Liu Yang's view, there should still be such a thing in science fiction literature.

Through long -term observation and analysis, Liu Yang believes that the level of creation of the entire science fiction novels in China has reached a very high and mature level. Except for "Three Body", which is recognized as the world's top level, other new generation of science fiction writers can actually write very good science fiction works.

"Three Body" posters ｜ Picture source interface news

However, from the general concept of science fiction creation, the downstream of the entire science fiction is actually far worse. After the creation of science fiction, it involves a series of downstream products, including games, film and television, script killing, etc. The development of these science fiction industries is still lagging behind. Science fiction screenwriters, directors, and producers are very lacking. Most people who have done science fiction film and television projects have never done science fiction programs before, and they basically do not understand science fiction. Therefore, many science fiction writers are transferred to science fiction screenwriter. This is actually a problem, because writing novels and scripts is completely different, and their respective requirements, focus, and skills are not so interoperable. So a good science fiction writer may not be able to write a good science fiction script.

In this regard, Liu Yang also expressed his expectations. He hoped that in a few years, there will be more mature science fiction film and television projects or game projects in China. After practitioners have more experience, the entire industry will become more and more mature.

Science fiction future.

----- The environment is great, hard work innovation ▏

The success of "Three Body" is world -renowned, but it is difficult for outsiders to imagine that Liu Cixin could not find the publishing of the publishing house after writing this book. Liu Yang shared the science fiction development process he knew. At the beginning of this century, the publishing environment and industrial environment of the entire science fiction were incomparable with now. In addition to the "Science Fiction World" magazine for a long time, science fiction rarely has a platform that can be published, and because it is a magazine, domestic science fiction writers can only write short stories.

And now the creative environment of young science fiction writers is much better than before. Like Shenzhen this year, there is a project in Shenzhen. It has supported a large number of middle school students. A large number of middle school students have been published smoothly. Many publishers are happy to publish science fiction novels, and many platforms are also publishing science fiction works. In addition, although the science fiction industry is still in a relatively primary stage, there are basically some development opportunities, such as Liu Cixin's all science fiction IPs are rushing to develop. Liu Yang revealed that many of his IPs are also in the development process.

In addition, Shenzhen has also established an authoritative and professional literary award hosted by the Shenzhen Federation of Literary and Art Federation and hosted by the Shenzhen Writers Association. The Shenzhen Youth Literature Award for young writers. , Prospering Shenzhen's literary career has played a positive role. In 2021, Liu Yang's short story collection "Wings of Light" won the 11th Shenzhen Youth Literature Award. Liu Yang said at the awards ceremony: "The book" Wings of Light "contains some of my short science fiction novels, and many of them are written after I came to Shenzhen. Setting creates a sense of surprise by deducting -this is the most important characteristic of science fiction works. "The work reflects the keen observation and deep thinking of young writers on Shenzhen, a city marked by innovation and technology. Tuyuan Qingsong Comics

Finally, for the younger generation of science fiction writers, Liu Yang expressed his expectations and suggestions: "I think I still have to write a very fresh setting. This is very important. Don't write some traditional science fiction novels according to the previous model, Don't always write robots, artificial intelligence, and aliens. You must write some more interesting things, and at the same time, you must write novels that are close to reality and close to the Chinese people's psychology. "

Conclusion.

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As Liu Yang said, science fiction creation must have the sea of ​​stars and the real background. And this concept has always run through Liu Yang's science fiction works. According to Liu Yang himself, he currently has two new novels. Among them, "City in the well" is the sequel of "Mars Orphan", and another "Crack" is the prequel of "Mars Orphan". These three books are a world series. Liu Yang called them "Future Universe Trilogy" Essence

Next, Liu Yang intends to write another series, which is intended to be called the "exotic chase" series, telling a series of adventure stories of the protagonist and his artificial intelligence partner in different parallel universes. This series is different from the previous series that it involves a more magnificent world. It is a universe composed of many parallel worlds. Each parallel universe has its own different world settings. The difference is very large. For example, everyone in a parallel world lives in a snail -like house. Because there is a lot of radiation in the outside world, I have to move this house wherever I go ...

Let's look forward to Liu Yang's new work together, and also hope that Shenzhen's science fiction literature and science fiction industry can usher in a brighter future under the guidance of Liu Yang and other outstanding science fiction writers.

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