Chapter thirty-one, read it to me overnight!
With his editor-in-chief reading speed and experience in writing review, Domingo read the whole book with efficiency far exceeding Brown. Of course, this is not unrelated to the current working hours. Reviewing the draft is also a work, so he certainly has reason to arrange all other things for this.
After Brown's publicity, almost everyone outside the editor-in-chief also knew that a new Chinese writer named Alice Wang threw an excellent work into the Bantam, which made Brown, who had been in the 15-year-old and Domingo, who had been in the 20-year-old for both.
Then, when the whole day was about to end, seven editors, including Brown, were notified that Domingo was going to have a meeting.
"According to the process, shouldn't we contact the author first?"
Just as he received the notice and was about to get up, Brown's colleague, Niedel, drank vanilla Mocha and said, "Why did Rice ask us to have a meeting first? And he would still call seven people in one breath?"
"Maybe it's something else, oh, my waist is so old."
The editor of the table next to him, Ames, is already sixty years old, but his fate is ill-fated. Although he is gray-haired, he can only live in an ordinary editorial position, even one of the largest publishing houses in the industry.
"Although Rice was fascinated by that book all morning, no one had any regulations. He asked us to have a meeting for it, right? Let's go quickly, don't let that guy wait and worry!"
The group soon gathered in the conference room, and seven copies of manuscripts were distributed in their respective locations. Brown didn't even need to look at them, and the topic of this conference must be about "Jurassic Park".
"Everyone knows what I'm busy with today, so I won't talk much."
Sitting in the chief, Editor-in-Chief Domingo said: "I have read it through. It is definitely an extremely excellent science fiction novel, and it involves several themes such as biotechnology, cloning technology, chaos theory, and harmonious development between man and nature. And the most commendable thing is that it either happened in a completely fictional era, or at this time we are now."
Most editors were a little surprised to see Domingo so popular with this work. The gray-haired Emes flipped through the manuscript and said, "Since it's that good, you should have contacted the author, how are you communicating with the other party?"
Domingo tskated and rubbed her temples: "This is the biggest problem at present. The author did give a phone call, but I hung up all day today and couldn't contact her."
“Didn’t anyone answer?”
"Are there any phone messages?" Ames said, "
"No, since you are an Asian, you may not have the habit of using phone messages? It's so unlucky."
Domingo sighed casually and continued: "Anyway, 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 for everyone to go home to read the manuscript, finish it as soon as possible, and then write me a book review thought."
The comment just now was followed, and then seven people in the audience quickly wrote a book review. Domingo's two words suddenly exploded in the conference room. After all, this is the work of a new writer. There were seven editors who had to read it all night and kick it out. What's going on!?
Of course, seeing the surprise of colleagues, Domingo smiled and said, "I know time is a bit tight, but think about it, what day will be in two months?"
The editors looked at each other, and the editor-in-chief suddenly raised the question that they were a little confused. Two months later it was July. If we talk about the annual reading list of the New York Times and other publications, it was obviously not the time.
"Two months later...Mr. Blaney's "Youth is My Love" was published?"
"The day when Levine Bookstore renews its contract with us bantams? Domingo, you won't plan to publish this book with them, are you?"
The editors naturally thought about the problem from a professional perspective. Brown was also stumped by his boss's sudden problem. Suddenly, Needle had an idea: "Are you referring to the Los Angeles Olympics in July?"
"Oh, yes, this must be the reason!"
As soon as he heard this, Brown suddenly realized: "A 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 features Chinese people as the protagonist? It seems...isn't it? Can it have a market in that country?"
"No matter whether it can be opened or not, the Olympics is indeed a good time to promote this book, so for two months, I really need to hurry up!"
Seeing that the entire conference room was bustling, Domingo sat in the chief without saying a word. He looked at the time and there was still about half an hour left before getting off work.
"How about you look through the manuscript first and give me some preliminary suggestions."
Considering the issue of efficiency, Domingo said: "After all, since Alice-Wang is a new writer, it will take some time for the company to promote her works. It is only two months away from the Olympics, so everyone should hurry up!"
With the editor-in-chief's request, all seven people picked up the manuscript and read it. In fact, if it weren't for Domingo's words, they would have been able to turn it over. After all, Brown was constantly telling everyone how wonderful this book was, and anyone was curious about it.
Brown started reading again with relish. Even Domingo himself, since everyone started reading, he copied the manuscript and started reading it.
The conference room was quiet, and the sound of flipping through the pages kept ringing, and the initial browsing speed was very fast. When the minute hand was still five minutes away from the hour of get off work, most people had already finished reading the full text.
"This book is really very immersive!"
Blaney, the five-year-old editor, said the first: "Unlike the science fiction novels on the market that focus on space and the universe, this book only arranges the age in the present, and except for dinosaur cloning technology, everything else is exactly the same as modern society. I am sure that compared to other similar books, this novel has the strongest sense of substitution!"
“To be precise, it’s the sense of environmental inclusion.”
Niedel spoke in the second speech: "I carefully browsed the author's description of the park control system and used computers to control the entire park equipment. Although it is still a bit difficult now, it is theoretically completely feasible."
"And the author obviously knows computer technology in particular. In order to avoid ordinary readers not being able to understand it, he also attached pictures of the operation interface in the article. As for cloning technology, although the current technical level is not good, it is also visible and tangible technology. Compared with those cosmic science fiction novels that meet aliens, it is too close to life!"
The editors present all agreed with Nidel's comments. Since the Soviet Union launched the first manned spacecraft and allowed astronaut Gagarin to enter space, almost the entire world's science fiction novels are related to the universe. Similarly, whenever the people hear the name of science fiction, they will think of the space field without hesitation.
Like the movie "2001 Space Odyssey" released in 1968 and its adapted novels, the first "Host the Galactic Guide" series published in 1979. As for the recognized science fiction master, Asimov even created several of the "Galaxy Empire" series in the 1950s, these are the most typical examples.
As for movies and TV series, the double hit "Star Trek" series, Lucas' "Star Wars" series, and fan-like novels are even more overwhelming!
Against this background, this new Chinese writer took a different approach and simply wrote about cloning techniques. Generally speaking, it is actually a very risky behavior.
However, the cloned object is so unique.
Dinosaur!
This writer actually brought the dinosaurs up!
Although in the 1960s and 1970s, many people thought that humans would definitely enter the interstellar era of moon colonization as described in "2001 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 was 1989, and the location was an island in the Madagascar waters. By purchasing a large number of amber, we obtained dinosaur blood from ancient mosquitoes, and cloning technology and DNA embedding technology to reappear the dinosaurs that had long been destroyed for 65 million years, and then...
"Then she actually thought of opening a theme park!"
Levins, who had eight years of experience in the industry, shouted excitedly: "My God! Les, and everyone, aren't afraid of you laughing at me. If Madagascar really opened such a park, I would even borrow ten years of money and would go there with my wife and children for a week!"
"Yes, yes, the sense of substitution is so strong!"
Brown also agreed: "Compared to entering space, going to Jurassic Park for a week is very cheap. Look at my physical fitness. If someone invites me to travel to space, I can't go even if I pay me a lot. Can anyone bear the training of astronauts?"
"Anyway, just be optimistic about this book."
Looking at the excitement of the whole table, Domingo looked at the watch and then looked down at the end of the manuscript. On it, Alice Wang's phone number and address were clearly written.
"What I need to figure out now is why no one answered the phone after I hung up for a day?"
Chapter completed!