The Goddess Shines on America

With the editor-level reading speed and review experience, Domingo read the entire book with far more efficiency than Brown. Of course, this is not unrelated to working hours. Reviewing is also work, and he certainly has reason to block everything else for it.

After Brown's publicity, almost everyone outside the editor-in-chief also knew that a new Chinese writer named Alice Wang had submitted an excellent work to Bantam, and Brown, who had 15 years of experience, and two practitioners Ten years of Domingo are obsessed.

Then, as the day drew to a close, seven editors, including Brown, were notified that Domingo was going to have a meeting.

"According to the procedure, shouldn't you contact the author first?"

Just received the notice and was about to get up. Brown's colleague, Nieder, drank a vanilla mocha and said, "Why did Les call us for a meeting first? And he still called seven people in one go?"

"Maybe it's something else, hey, my waist is really old."

The editor at the table next to him, Ames, was about sixty years old, but he had a lot of bad luck. Although he was gray-haired, he could only spend his days as an ordinary editor, even for one of the largest publishing houses in the industry.

"Although Rice has been fascinated by that book all morning, no one has stipulated that he called us to the meeting because of it, right? Let's go now, don't keep that guy waiting!"

A group of people quickly gathered in the meeting room, and the seven copied manuscripts were distributed in their respective positions. Brown didn't even need to look through it to know that the topic of this meeting must still be about "Jurassic Park".

"Everyone knows what I'm busy with today, so I won't gossip too much."

Sitting at the head, editor-in-chief Domingo said: "I have read it through, it is definitely an excellent science fiction novel, and it involves biotechnology, cloning technology, chaos theory, and the harmonious development of man and nature. Waiting for several themes. And the most commendable thing is that it didn't happen in a completely fictional era, but we are now."

Most editors were a little surprised to see Domingo following the work so much. The gray-haired Eames flipped through the manuscript casually and said, "Since it's so good, you should have already contacted the author. How are you communicating with him?"

Domingo clicked his tongue, rubbed his temples and said, "This is the biggest problem right now. The author did give her a call, but I hung up all day today, but I couldn't reach her."

"Did anyone answer?"

Eames said, "Is there a message on the phone?"

"No, since you are an Asian, maybe you don't have the habit of using the phone to leave messages? What a bad luck."

Domingo said casually, and then said: "In short, I will continue to try to contact the author tomorrow. This work is really excellent. So now at the meeting, I will assign a task to everyone, that is, everyone will hold the manuscript Go home and read it, finish it as soon as possible, and then write me a book review."

Immediately after the evaluation just now, and then the seven people in the audience were asked to quickly write book reviews, and Domingo's two words immediately exploded in the conference room. After all, this is the work of a newcomer writer, and seven editors have to read through it all night to drive out the book review. What's the situation! ?

Of course seeing the astonishment of his colleagues, Domingo smiled and said, "I know time is a bit tight, but think about it, what will be the day after two months?"

The editors looked at each other, and the editor-in-chief's sudden question made them a little confused. Two months later, it will be July. It is obviously not the time to talk about the annual reading lists of publications such as the New York Times.

"Two months from now . . . When will Mr. Blaney's Youth Is My Love be published?"

"The day when the contract between the Levin Book Club and our bantams is renewed? Domingo, you don't plan to publish this book with them, do you?"

The editors were naturally thinking about the problem from a professional perspective, and Brown was stumped by the sudden question from his boss. Suddenly, Nieder had an idea: "You mean the Los Angeles Olympics in July?"

"Oh, yes, it must be the reason!?"

Upon hearing this sentence, Brown suddenly realized: "Chinese female writer! And her address at the end of the manuscript is Los Angeles! Rice, are you planning to use the Chinese delegation to open up the Chinese market!?"

"Jurassic Park, this book has Chinese as the protagonist? It seems... isn't it? Can it have a market in that country?"

"Whether you can open it or not, the Olympic Games is indeed a good time to promote this book, so in two months, you really have to hurry up!"

Seeing that the whole meeting room suddenly became lively, Domingo sat in the chief seat and did not make a sound. He checked the time, and there was still about half an hour before get off work.

"Why don't you go through the manuscript first and give me a preliminary suggestion."

Considering the issue of efficiency, Domingo said: "After all, since this Alice Wang is a newcomer writer, it will take some time for the company to promote her works. The Olympic Games is only two months away, everyone hurry up Time!"

At the request of the editor-in-chief, all seven people in the audience picked up the manuscript and read it. In fact, if it weren't for Domingo having something to say, they couldn't help but want to flip through it. After all, Brown has been telling everyone all day today how wonderful this book is, and everyone is curious about it.

Brown read it again with relish, and even Domingo himself, now that everyone had started reading, picked up the manuscript and read it again.

The meeting room was quiet, and the sound of pages turning kept ringing out. The initial browsing speed was very fast. When the minute hand was five minutes away from the hour, most people had already read the full text.

"This book is really engaging!"

Blaney, an editor with five years of seniority, was the first to say: "Unlike those science fiction novels that focus on space and the universe, this book only arranges the time in the present, and except for dinosaur cloning technology, everything else is in line with the Modern society is exactly the same. I'm sure, compared with other similar books, this novel has the strongest sense of substitution!"

"To be precise, it is the sense of environmental substitution."

Nieder was the second to open the mouth and said: "I carefully browsed the author's description of the park's control system, using computers to control the entire park's equipment. Although it is still a bit difficult at present, it is completely feasible in theory."

"And the author obviously knows computer technology very well. In order to prevent ordinary readers from being confused, he also attached pictures of the operation interface in the text. As for the cloning technology, although the current technical level is not good enough, it is all visible and tactile. Compared with those cosmic science fiction novels that meet aliens, the technology obtained is really close to life!"

All the editors present agreed with Nieder's comment. Since the Soviet Union launched the first manned spacecraft and let astronaut Gagarin into space, almost the entire world of science fiction has been related to the universe. Similarly, as long as the public hears the name of science fiction, they will not hesitate to think of the space field.

Like the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and its adaptation novel released in 1968, the first "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series was published in 1979. As for the recognized master of science fiction, Asimov was even more famous in the 1950s. This is the most typical example of the concentrated creation of several "Galaxy Empire" series.

As for the "Star Trek" series, which is both popular in movies and TV series, Lucas's "Star Wars" series, fan-like novels are overwhelming!

Against such a general background, this newcomer Chinese writer took a different approach, just writing about cloning technology. Generally speaking, it is actually a very risky behavior.

However, cloning objects is so different.

Dinosaur!

This writer actually brought dinosaurs up!

Although in the 1960s and 1970s, many people felt that human beings would definitely enter the interstellar era of lunar colonization as described in "2001: A Space Odyssey". But everyone also knows that ordinary people still have no chance to enter the universe after all.

But Jurassic Park is different!

The time is 1989, and the location is an island in the waters of Madagascar. By purchasing amber in large quantities, the dinosaur blood in ancient mosquitoes was obtained, and the dinosaurs that had been extinct for 65 million years were reborn with cloning technology and DNA embedding technology, and then...

"And then she actually thought of opening a theme park!"

Levins, who has eight years of experience in the industry, shouted excitedly: "My God! Les, and everyone, I am not afraid of your jokes. If such a park really opened in Madagascar, I will take a loan for ten years, and I will pay for it. Go there with my wife and kids for a week!"

"Yes, yes, the sense of substitution is too strong!"

Brown also agreed: "Compared to going to space, going to 'Jurassic Park' for a week, all kinds of costs are very cheap. Look at my physical fitness, if someone invites me to travel in space , even if I pay me back, I won’t be able to go, can the training of astronauts be tolerated by anyone?”

"In short, everyone is optimistic about this book."

Seeing the excitement of the whole table, Domingo looked at his watch, and then looked down at the last page of the manuscript. On it, Alice Wang's phone number and address are written clearly.

"What I have to figure out now is why no one answered the phone after I hung up for a whole day?"