Monday, the first day of work, today will be the same day as before, Brown thought so when he walked into the editorial room.

This is Bantam Book Company in Manhattan, New York. As a senior editor, Brown has spent fifteen years in three publishing houses. Now even his son is in elementary school. So, you can imagine how many wonderful novels he has read and how many creative manuscripts he has read.

However, recently, the number of submissions to the company has dropped a lot, and he has not been able to pick up good books. Brown has not achieved performance for a long time.

"Lianna, how many are there today? Can you make up twenty books?"

Before his butt was hot, Secretary Leanna walked towards him with a cup of coffee: "There are only seven books in total. Are you planning to read it now, or take a break first?"

Brown picked up the coffee and frowned: "Seven books? Are you sure you are not talking about seventeen?"

"It's seven, Mr. Brown, I know what you mean. The number was fifteen last Friday, but it dropped by half today, that's right."

Although she was talking about things that were not good for the company, Leanna's expression was still calm: "But the weight of the express delivery has not changed. They are all novels. If you read them one by one, it will probably be the same as the fifteen books."

Brown nodded, which is also a feature of the book publishing industry. Quantity cannot determine quality, and the benefits of a high-quality work can bring are definitely several times that of ordinary books.

Think about the Lord of the Rings back then, which has been popular since the 1950s, so the slogan is extremely arrogant: there are only two types of people in the world, who have seen the Lord of the Rings, and who are about to see it.

Therefore, as the book and cultural industry in the United States develops step by step, the responsibility of editors is even more important. After all, if someone can discover works worthy of the Lord of the Rings, just its value at that time is enough to compare the bestsellers of this year!

"Oh, it's just a needle in a haystack..."

Looking at the manuscript that Leanna immediately sent him, Brown sighed helplessly.

"What are you sighing at? The recent work pressure?"

After putting down the manuscript, Leanna was not in a hurry to leave. As she asked, she looked at the floor-to-ceiling window behind Brown.

In the bustling core area of ​​Manhattan, the uneven skyscrapers are clusters of bustling ants at a height of hundreds of meters above the ground. This is fashionable and early morning. If it were sunset or even late at night, it would definitely give people a feeling of "empty and lonely", especially for outsiders who work hard.

"Work pressure? Oh, of course, Leanna, let's see how many recent submissions are."

Brown opened the express delivery and said, "Five companies! In the past month, just one Manhattan, we have registered five large publishing houses! Look at their overwhelming publicity, look at the benefits they give to authors! Then look at the decreasing number here!"

"Do you want to have more or less work?"

Leanna still stood in front of him calmly: "As for the competition from other publishers, that is what Chairman Speke should worry about. Just do the job you should do? Could it be that Mr. Brown can no longer afford the loan for his monthly salary and will soon be divorced?"

"...Lianna, why did I advise you to sign a ten-year contract?"

"Of course, you have a sharp eye and recognized my talent as a secretary."

All the Qifen Express was disassembled. Facing the seven heavy manuscripts, Brown waved his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it, you go out first, I still have to read the manuscript."

"So, I'll make another cup of coffee for you, or do I need Starbucks opposite?"

"Hurry up and go for a walk outside the company."

After Leanna left, Brown began to read the first manuscript slowly.

This is undoubtedly a novel. The plot is probably in Georgia. After just reading the first chapter, Brown knew that it was just a plagiarism. It was too similar. In addition to the location of the occurrence, it was like a copy of "Gone with Gone". Scarlett was replaced by Carlettie, and Rhettie turned into Reckard. The author's research on spelling was very outstanding.

"What kind of trash, it's really a pity that he can write hundreds of thousands of words!"

But this still cannot reach Brown's eye. After all, "Gone with Gone" is his must-read book in school literature classes. As an editor who has been in the industry for fifteen years, if he can't even see this plagiarism, the entire bantam should have gone bankrupt.

Immediately afterwards, Brown began to read the next manuscript, which is typically a mystery novel. According to the beginning of the story, a married woman was strangled to death in a confined room. The story took place in the island resort mansion on a rainy night, and all the characters appeared were limited to ten. What readers and the protagonist of the story had to do was to find out the real murderer who had the same limited conditions under these limited conditions.

"This is good, but is this kind of environment a bit coincidental? There are only ten people in the island on a rainy night, and it is still a secret room case. Tsk tsk, the authenticity is not good, but it is very interesting as a gimmick and setting... not right!"

After a quick reading, Brown turned over dozens of pages in just ten minutes, and then he was shocked to see that the follow-up to the entire manuscript was actually another work.

"Is the reasoning series? Then I have to spend some experience to identify it, so I will put it aside first."

In this way, when Secretary Leanna sent her afternoon tea, Brown had already read all seven manuscripts.

"This reasoning series is worth a little bit published, and nothing else can do."

Lying lazily leaning against the back of the chair, Brown savvy coffee while looking at the skyscrapers outside the window. It happened that a helicopter flew past the distance, which was a routine patrol by the New York Police Department.

Just then, Leanna walked in again.

"Mr. Brown, the front desk received another express delivery, which is also a manuscript."

Brown waved his hand, turned the chair to face the floor-to-ceiling window, and slowly held the coffee cup and said, "I'll read these seven books today. Put it away first. It's not too late to read it tomorrow."

"Mr. Brown?"

However, Leanna had no intention of leaving and was still standing: "You said this morning, why are there only seven copies and so few, so I specially called FedEx to speed up the delivery of more packages. Mr. Brown, please don't ruin your subordinates' support for your work?"

Brown's eyebrows twitched subconsciously, even though he was now facing away from the door, he could clearly feel the cold breath behind him.

"That...Lianna, I just complained casually. Why did you call FedEx specifically? The expedited fee is inconvenient..."

"Of course it's up to you. How can we, employees who work hard for the company, be embarrassed to ask the company to pay the expedited fee? You're right?"

"Cough! Cough cough cough!"

"Ah Mr. Brown, drink slowly. This is toilet paper, and then this is the manuscript, and then at the end, this is the check for the expedited fee. You are writing your name with your head up. Please hold it."

Looking at Leanna's enchanting little steps when she went out, Brown sighed deeply.

"Well, I haven't eaten my Black Forest cake yet."

Seeing that there were a lot of words in front of him, he shook his head, pushed the rich afternoon refreshment aside, and began to read this one.

Jurassic Park

Very...unaware.

This is how Brown felt when he saw the title of the book.

Of course he knew what the Jurassic is, the Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous, dinosaurs crawled everywhere; of course he knew more about what the park meant, flowers, plants, stone roads, and he still had the habit of walking in Central Park every weekend.

But if he combined these two words and he was a little confused.

The dinosaurs of the Jurassic era built a park, and then they all talked about love, caught bees, and played football... children's stories?

Then why do you have to be the Jurassic era? Aren’t the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus Rex more eye-catching?

He didn't worry much about this issue, so he opened the first page of the text.

"International Genetic Technology Company Event"

This should be the name of the sub-volume title. When I suddenly saw it, Brown was shocked again.

Genetic technology company, and it's international!

No matter what the incident is, it feels really amazing!

At this moment, Brown immediately realized that this was probably a science fiction novel.

Subconsciously, he looked at the calendar around him, and he did this habitually whenever he reviewed the manuscript and met science fiction novels.

Monday, May 28, 1984.

By determining the date, it is easy to compare the technological level in the book with the real world, right?

Then, he immediately fell into the plot of the book.

According to the author's compilation, in the world of this novel, although it was still in the 1980s, biotechnology technology developed ahead of schedule at a shocking speed. The whole world is full of genetic technology companies, biotechnology companies, etc. In short, the biotechnology revolution broke out in this world.

A preface is just a preface to the entire novel of hundreds of thousands of words. The author concisely expresses this situation. Furthermore, at the end of the article, a more fascinating situation is explained.

A world's top biotech company filed for bankruptcy protection, but the reason for the bankruptcy was not announced to the outside world, and everyone signed a confidentiality agreement during internal communication.

Why, the company does not announce the reasons for bankruptcy to the outside world?

Why do relevant personnel sign a confidentiality agreement?

Because, this reason is an incident, and this incident took place on a remote island on the west coast of Costa Rica in two days in August 1989.

Without any hesitation, Brown turned on the first chapter of the main text, and the oncoming title made him immediately and breathe.

"Beast Devours Man".
Chapter completed!