Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 663 Announcing the Results
The Hugo Award for Best Novel has not been tied for a long time. The last time the names of two books appeared on the list of best novel winners at the same time dates back to 1993, and it has been 30 years since It's time.

In fact, since the establishment of the Hugo Awards, there have not been several cases of tying awards.Not to mention the best novel, even counting all the awards, there are only a handful of cases where they are tied.

Due to the continuous improvement of the selection mode of the Hugo Award in recent years, it is almost impossible to win the award in a tie, because the requirements are too high and the probability is too small.

This year, because the Hugo Awards have experienced a frenzy of swiping votes, the selection rules have been changed appropriately, and this is possible.Of course, as for the specific situation, no one can say for sure, the newly revised rules are not as transparent as before.

pz made history!

This is the thought of everyone present.

Although the Hugo Awards have also been awarded in parallel, but the winning works are from different writers, like this time two works are from the same person, which is the first time.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the science fiction master pz has unique ingenuity and ingenious layout. During the long journey, he sometimes pushes readers into dangerous and dangerous environments, and sometimes brings us into a wonderful world full of poetic and picturesque. The magnificent scenes are depicted and meticulously detailed. The detailed descriptions of the alternately appear..."

When the reasons for winning "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" began to be played on the radio, Zhang Zhong knew that he had to go on stage.

But he didn't need to worry at all, because after the broadcast of the award reasons for "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", the reason for the award of "Three-Body 2 Dark Forest" was immediately broadcast.

"The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking in the forest like a ghost, gently pushing aside the branches blocking the way, trying not to let the footsteps make a sound, and even breathing must be careful... "Three-Body 2 Dark Forest" shows everything that the starfish civilization can experience in the universe. It is vast and subtle. The dark forest has harsh laws and hope of survival. The shock, feeling and thinking that pz brings to people, Rising to a new dimension in this book. Remember, don't answer, don't answer, don't answer!"

When the last "don't answer" fell, Zhang Zhong also stepped onto the stage with one foot.

In order to step on it better, Zhang Zhong also spent a lot of thought.

After taking the stage, Llorente hugged him like an old acquaintance who had known him for a long time.

"Congratulations, pz."

Zhang Zhong patted him on the back, "Thank you."

Then the two separated, Zhang Zhong walked forward, and a staff member came over with two trophies.

Zhang Zhong looked at the two trophies and smiled. The Hugo Award is still kind, at least he didn't only give out one trophy because the works are all his own.

The trophy of the Hugo Awards has no fixed shape, but it is roughly the same every time, with a rocket on it.

When the awards were first awarded, everyone was more casual. They temporarily made a rocket out of stainless steel, and put a wooden base underneath, which was crude and ugly.

Later, someone proposed to use the oldsmobile car logo as a trophy, but it didn't look good, so I designed one myself.

Although it is a design, there is nothing new. It is still a rocket, but the workmanship is not as rough as before.

After so many years, the main image of the rocket has been preserved.

This year's trophy has two golden maple leaves inlaid on the edge of the award.

Probably gold-plated, and with the urgency of the World Science Fiction Convention, it is impossible for them to decorate with pure gold maple leaves, the cost is too high to be worthwhile.

Holding a trophy in one hand, Zhang Zhong leaned in front of the microphone and said with a smile, "Although holding a trophy in both hands is a bit flamboyant, but who is Mr. Llorente not willing to come and help?"

Llorente, who was standing behind, was caught by the cue, walked over with a smile, snatched two trophies from Zhang Zhong, and then ran to the back.

Zhang Zhong looked at the empty hands and shrugged his shoulders, "It's much easier now, thank you Mr. Llorente for your help, but please don't forget to return the trophy to me later."

Llorente compared a "three" with his hand behind, which means that he has three of this thing, which is not uncommon.

The interaction between the two caused roars of laughter.

"First of all, I would like to thank the organizing committee for sending me this award. Before I came to Wellington, someone asked me if I had any expectations for this visit. I told the person who asked this question, I hope that the weather in Wellington will not be too cold. My expectations have been met. Realized, the weather in Wellington these two days is very good. In addition, I also got some unexpected surprises - those two heavy trophies. I thought I would return empty-handed, or only get one, but I didn't expect that "good things come in pairs". "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of an adventurer. Except for those "mysterious" popular science knowledge, it doesn't look too much like a science fiction novel. I often read comments from netizens on the Internet. I found that many teenagers like this book very much. However, the reason why they like this book is not because they can learn knowledge from it, but because of some wonderful fantasies in it. In China, when people describe creativity, they often use A new vocabulary is used, called brain hole. Open a hole in the brain. I don't know where the word comes from, but I think this word is very vivid. The bigger the hole in our head, the more we may need Extraordinary imagination to fill these holes. Obviously "[-] Leagues Under the Sea" is not a novel with a lot of brain holes, it seems quite satisfactory..."

"When I learned that "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Three-Body 2" won awards at the same time, I was very happy, not because of my own honor, but because of the traditional elements and brain holes in science fiction It is a gratifying thing that the elements can be recognized by everyone at the same time. Science fiction has been translated into a 'kehuan' novel in the Chinese language, and 'kehuan' is composed of two words, science and fantasy. The award of the book just represents these two words..."

Zhang Zhong didn't prepare a manuscript, but he could still handle such a scene.

The Hugo Awards Ceremony has now come to an end, and there will be no other important matters, so the entire stage is handed over to Zhang Zhong, and he does not have to consider whether his acceptance speech is too long and affect the progress of the ceremony.

However, Zhang Zhong didn't say too much. After chatting for six or seven minutes, he ended his acceptance speech.

"Finally, I would like to thank all the readers who supported me, and I hope you will continue to support me."

When Zhang Zhong was about to walk off the stage with Llorente, Hilde ran out again and handed Zhang Zhong a card, "Pz, there is something I need to ask you to do me a favor."

"This is?" Zhang Zhong looked suspiciously at the card in his hand.

Hilde said, "You'll know it when you read it. What you have to do is very simple, just read the contents of the card."

After speaking, Hilde left, and Llorente saw that he had nothing to do, so he said, "I will go down first, and I will keep the trophy for you first."

Zhang nodded, returned to the microphone, and opened the card Hilde gave him.

When he saw the contents of the card, his two eyebrows couldn't help but raised, and then he held the microphone and said, "I announce that the host city of the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention is... Jiangyang!"

(End of this chapter)