Chapter 719 Galaxy Award

"Editor Yang, I finally see you!" Shen Long stretched out his right hand with a smile. Shen Long respected Yang Xiao very much. Under her leadership, "Science Fiction World" went from a trough to prosperity and became the world's best-selling science fiction literature magazine. .

In 1984, at the most difficult moment when the sources of manuscripts and financial resources were exhausted, Yang Xiao became the editor-in-chief of "Science and Literature". At that time, she could have chosen a powerful and wealthy unit to "gain a job", but she chose to make a silent contribution—— Stick to the only position of Chinese science fiction.

When the country was completely "weaned" and the higher authorities did not give a penny to the publications, she united everyone to edit more than ten best-selling books such as the children's popular science book "Good Night Story 365" and "Physics Atlas for Middle School". The profits from the books are used to subsidize the huge losses of the publications, and at the same time "feed" the editors themselves.

When the transportation was tense, she took off her high heels and stepped on the tricycle; when the elevator stopped, she led several editors to carry tens of thousands of books to the office on the tenth floor with their hands on their shoulders; She and the editor rode bicycles from school to school to collect manuscripts and subscribe to publications.

She carefully read and processed manuscripts, attached great importance to cultivating new authors, persisted in personally approving readers' letters for a long time, and listened to readers' voices. Through the unremitting efforts of her and the editors, the journal finally stabilized its position.

At the end of the 1980s, she single-handedly dragged a heavy bookcase full of periodicals and science fiction books published in China to Italy to attend the WSF annual meeting; on behalf of China, she defeated her competitor Poland and won the right to host the annual meeting.

In 1990, when many members of WSF boycotted holding the annual conference in China, she took the train from Beijing to Holland after a long journey of eight days and eight nights despite suffering from motion sickness; many science fiction writers were surprised and deeply admired her courage and perseverance Admire.

Through the efforts of her and her colleagues, the WSF member countries once again approved holding the WSF Annual Conference in Chengdu with an overwhelming majority; she served as the Secretary-General of the Preparatory Committee of the Annual Conference, and made the Chengdu Annual Conference a "WSF Conference" with her outstanding organizational skills and hard work. The grandest and most successful annual meeting since its establishment."

It is an exaggeration to say that without Yang Xiao’s persistence, perhaps Da Liu, Han Song and others would not have insisted on writing science fiction novels, and China would have lost a large number of excellent literary works such as "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Wandering Earth". There will be no box office of more than 4 billion yuan for "The Wandering Earth". I am afraid that the opening of the era of Chinese science fiction movies will come later.

How could Shen Long disrespect such a person; Yang Xiao was quite surprised by Shen Long's solemnity, after all, she was only a young editor under 30 years old, but Shen Long was already a famous writer.

"Ms. Sun, I'm really sorry. It stands to reason that I should go to see you first, and now you have to come to pick me up." Yang Xiao quickly reached out to shake hands with Shen Long.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the venue first, and we'll have a good chat after signing." Shen Long didn't come to pick her up this time just to meet her, he had more important things to discuss with Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao came to the capital for a meeting this time. After Shen Long got the news, he asked her to meet in the capital. After sending her to the meeting place to sign in, Shen Long took her to his courtyard.

"Your place is so clean, it's really suitable for creation." Yang Xiao looked at the surrounding environment and said, after a short chat, she began to comfort and encourage Shen Long, "Mr. Controversial, but I've also heard from many readers and science fiction writers in support of you."

Shen Long waved his hand, "These are trivial matters, and sometimes such controversies can actually promote the development of science fiction literature." Shen Long is an old man, so he is not afraid of these disputes.

Moreover, he also participated in the debate, citing scriptures and refusing the opponents to the point that they had nothing to say. They wanted to play theories and pens with high-ranking officials, but they were almost too close.

"I invite you here this time to discuss another matter." Shen Long got to the point, "Last year, before his death, Mr. Mao Dun donated his manuscript fee to establish the Mao Dun Literature Award, which is of great importance to traditional literature. The promotion of sci-fi literature; although the influence of sci-fi literature today cannot be compared with traditional ones, I think that if there is an award specifically for sci-fi literature, it can also promote the development of sci-fi literature!"

"Yes." Yang Xiao nodded. Especially at this time, science fiction literature is under tremendous pressure. If an award can be established and heavyweights can be persuaded to appear, it will definitely be a good thing for domestic science fiction literature.

But this may be a bit difficult, not to mention the small things like setting up an awards committee, awarding, and holding an award ceremony, but the expenditure required for setting up awards is beyond what the current "Science Fiction Literature" can afford. There is no such thing as Mao Dun in the science fiction literature world.

Seeing Yang Xiao's distressed expression, Shen Long said, "It just so happened that "Happy Hunting" was translated into English and published in the American magazine "Fantasy and Science Fiction Literature" some time ago. I made a little investment in the United States, and the income is not bad.”

"What do you mean?" Yang Xiao became excited when he heard this.

"That's why I plan to donate 200,000 US dollars to support the establishment of this award." Shen Long said, since Govan can advance the Galaxy Award, of course I can too.

"Two hundred thousand U.S. dollars!" Yang Xiao almost suspected that he had heard it wrong. The official exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the people is around 1.9, but no one will exchange it according to this ratio. There are black market dealers reselling U.S. dollars everywhere at banks and customs gates , if the exchange is carried out according to the ratio they gave, at least it can be exchanged for millions.

Even if it is difficult to go to the black market, nearly 400,000 RMB is not a small amount, which is more than the Mao Dun Literature Award. Hearing this good news suddenly, Yang Xiao was a little dazed for a while, and he didn't recover for a long time.

"However, I want to clarify in advance that the money is not for the "Science Fiction Literature and Art" magazine. According to my idea, we need to set up a science fiction literature committee first, and then this committee will select and present awards." It was established by the two magazines "Science Fiction Literature and Art" and "Tree of Wisdom" at the earliest. Later, "Tree of Wisdom" ceased publication and became an independent selection by "Science Fiction World". is a better way.

"This is what it should be." Yang Xiao woke up from the huge surprise, she took a sip of tea to calm down, "I can help you to contact the committee."

"That would be the best." Shen Long said with a smile, he trusted Yang Xiao's organizational ability very much.

"By the way, what do you plan to call this award?" Yang Xiao asked.

"Galaxy Award!"

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