fictionpage Chapter 16 The Truman Show
Chapter 16 The Truman Show
Geniuses are always looked up to.
Yu Zhen's extraordinary creative ability, with his initial release of 25 high-quality story pieces, had already caused a sensation in Shanghai's literary circles.
Editors from almost every magazine and journal publishing house in Shanghai flocked to the scene, eager to find out what was going on.
Yu Zhen later revealed the issue of his "unknown identity".
The publishing house was being cautious, and also didn't want outsiders to snatch those 25 articles.
So they deliberately suppressed the news for a period of time, giving no opportunity for outsiders to freely contact Yu Zhen himself.
Before we knew it, Yu Zhen had been in Shanghai for about ten days.
Thanks to the deliberate suppression of information within the company, the exaggerated rumors circulating outside have finally subsided.
However, with the release of the first draft of the new version of "The Truman Show," turmoil has begun within the three journals. While everyone admires Yu Zhen's creative talent, many are even more curious about where he gets his inspiration for the futuristic technological concepts in his stories.
For example, the concept of a "global village".
For example, the bio-genetic engineering of "clones".
For example, if an entire island of over 100 square kilometers could be transformed into a fully transparent, three-dimensional live-streaming studio, then devices that could be disguised as pinhole cameras, Bluetooth wireless data transmission systems, 360-degree self-tracking and detection systems, supercomputer central control platforms, network big data algorithm aggregation systems, and AI-powered personalized live-streaming terminals could be integrated into the natural environment…
Leaving aside the specific story content.
Just considering the many high-tech futuristic settings involved in the story.
Anyway, they don't know how real scientists would react to it.
But for ordinary people like them who are just reading stories, after reading a 5-word science fiction story with a slightly complicated setting, they should have been dizzy from the complex future technology tree system.
But that's not how it works. When people reflect on the story after reading it, they often feel that the future world of humanity should definitely have some high-tech new products integrated into daily life.
"That kid Yu Zhen, could he have actually lived in such a future society? The way he describes all those futuristic technological products doesn't seem like pure fabrication at all..."
"Yes, yes, I also have that feeling of not being able to tell what's real and what's fake..."
"I need to find some friends at research institutes when I have the chance to have a good chat about these technological concepts..."
People have a herd mentality. When one person focuses their discussion on the technological concepts in the story, more and more people will start to figure out the intricacies.
He does not mean that.
Some people actually went back to their friends in research institutions and used it as a bragging point to talk at length about what cutting-edge products humanity would have in the high-tech field in the next ten or twenty years.
No one paid attention to the boastful chatting at the dinner table at the time.
However, a few days later, people from the Shanghai Research Institute came to inquire about the Truman Show and asked for the manuscript of the story.
The editorial department of Harvest didn't take it too seriously at first.
I assumed the researchers from the research institute were just science fiction enthusiasts who wanted to read the work in advance, so I gave them permission. They weren't allowed to take the manuscript with them, but I could only look through it on the spot.
The researchers at the institute didn't make any excessive demands.
Upon receiving the manuscript, he immediately began to peruse it, making notes as he went.
Finally, the researchers filled a notebook with notes on future technological product ideas and then hurriedly left with the notebook.
Even so, nobody really took it seriously.
After all, it was just a science fiction story, not some major scientific research achievement. The fact that some seemingly plausible but actually flawed future technology concepts could be copied and used as treasures by people in the research institute at least proves that Yu Zhen's future technology fantasies in the novel were not just random thoughts, but had a considerable degree of real-world reference value.
Yu Zhen himself was completely unaware of this.
After a short break of several days, he has now gone into seclusion again to begin writing "The Truman Show 2: The Brain in a Vat".
He has already designed the story structure for the sequel, directly grafting it onto several super classic Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters such as "The Matrix", "Resident Evil", "Criminal", "Prototype", and "Terminator".
In the near future, more sequels to "The Truman Show" will be produced.
such as:
The Truman Show 3: Resident Evil
The Truman Show 4: Terminator
The Truman Show: The Matrix
……
Now, Yu Zhen has fully realized that his creative strengths do not lie in the present era, in reflecting on the past, or in exposing the so-called social status quo.
In the current domestic literary scene, the absolute mainstream is "scar literature" and "educated youth literature," which are stories and articles that are always required to reflect on and expose social reality, with this as their spiritual core.
To be honest, he really couldn't write these kinds of stories and articles.
Because there is simply no corresponding foundation for living.
Therefore, even though they had seen old movies like "The Herdsman," none of the 25 "storytelling" level works were copied or referenced.
Having traveled from the future, the era I am most familiar with is the 21st century, an era of highly developed internet.
Using a storytelling style reminiscent of a popular online novel, this book envisions a series of real and imagined future worlds, allowing readers to experience life in the new century through science fiction stories.
This is undoubtedly his inexhaustible source of creative inspiration.
Besides, there are so many Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters to draw inspiration from when writing science fiction stories.
It should be noted that the entire 1990s, and the first decade of the new century, were two decades in which Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters dominated the world.
So many brilliant science fiction story ideas.
Those are undoubtedly super gold mines, unattended and unguarded.
Having mysteriously traveled through time to this era, and possessing the ability and opportunity to openly and legitimately seize those super gold mines ten years in advance, thus drawing money from foreigners' pockets ahead of time.
This is the most obvious thing to do and the one that should be seized as soon as possible.
What are we still hesitating about, right? The next path we're determined to take is the path of Hollywood sci-fi blockbusters, leaving them all with nowhere to go! Ha!
Yu Zhen plans to spend the next three months creating his first science fiction epic, which is expected to be over one million words long.
He wants to turn his novel "The Truman Show" into a super IP, a science fiction empire capable of igniting a science fiction craze worldwide.