A book worth 500,000 words takes a long time to read, so when a series of book reviews were published in major newspapers, its ice and snow door had already been opened in December.

It's not to be said that although the two books have the same name and the plot outline is not essentially different, Alice's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" certainly has received a very different treatment from JK-Rolling.

It was one day in 1997. A single mother used a large number of shredded paper to make a children's magic novel of more than 100,000 words in a cafe. Although she received strong responses from the industry after launching this entire series one after another and brought herself a lot of income, at least she had to wait until the third book was officially published.

The reason is nothing else. It’s not that Harry Potter is slow-heating, but as a long magical series of literature, Rowling’s first one or two are too thin. Insufficient information, how can readers quickly feel the beautiful world of Magic Mom?

But when it comes to Alice, it is completely different.

First of all, the most direct difference between her and Rowling was from the beginning, a best-selling writer who served as a billion-level entrepreneur. Such an influential celebrity wrote a book, how could she worry about not having the first sales? When the number of potential readers was already a hundred times higher than Rowling's of the same period, the basic reaction speed of course increased year-on-year.

Then, it is the most obvious thickness.

As early as a few months ago, Bantam Book Club promoted Alice's long magic series, the theme of children in the seven-year and seven-part plot, and the main story takes school as the place where the story takes place. This is obviously a bedtime reading material for the entire generation to grow up.

If you get one book, you don’t have to worry about a year. If you get seven books, you never have to worry about it. How can those parents, who are the same age as "Harry Potter", not look forward to this novel?

In this month, bantams sold a total of 700,000 copies nationwide. After all, the price of this book is really not too expensive. It costs 500,000 words for 30 US dollars. How many months can this tell the bedside story of his own children? Or how much money is for women and children? In this total of 700,000 sales, parents really account for a lot of shares!

The reader base is extremely large and the basic market demand is also very prosperous. Alice easily broke the situation of "multiple books slowly arousing popularity" by jk-Rolling. Of course, after all, she has increased her work by triple the amount of space. Rather than saying that this phenomenon is ahead of time, the amount of information has met the standard in advance.

A 500,000-word book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" can naturally have the influence of Rowling's first three books.

So, it is not surprising that in the late 1988, just one month later, the cultural pages of mainstream media such as the New York Times will be completely washed out by comments from this novel.

"Breaking free from the new type of magic of Tolkien's framework, a magical story that takes place in the city!"

"The new star of classic works is rising, and an era of new magic has begun!"

"Seven books, seven academic years, seven fantasy doors are gradually open to a generation!"

"The perfect fusion of classical magic and modern society, and the appropriate reflection of illusion and reality!"

It was almost like a blowout, and the entire American fantasy literary world was blown up by this book. Even though the first batch of overseas versions had just been launched in Canada, dozens of writers and critics in the field could no longer help!

The development of fantasy literature in the European and American markets is prosperous. Since Tolkien in the 1950s, not counting the birth of "The Legend of Narnia" of the same period, in the following thirty years, at least a dozen writers have written exquisite stories of the same type.

From the six-part "Legend of the Earth and Sea" in the 1960s to the birth of ten books in the 1970s, to the recently published super-length series "Wheel of Time", all of which are the most outstanding masterpieces in the entire thirty years. Under their shadow, more stories of the same theme are also blooming in the form of a series.

But they undoubtedly have a distinctive feature - either they originate directly from the Tolkien system, or they just build a new world out of thin air. Even if "Amberz" has a sense of a multiverse world view, it still belongs to the category of a superficial world.

Another typical feature is that, like Tolkien, many authors are trying to create an epic vastness. Most of the teenagers' fantasy journey, the strong collision of justice and evil, are like this.

As a result, "Harry Potter" is like a scorching stone, thrown into the smooth and mirror-like ice deep.

Most commentators have a common view, that is, Alice perfectly integrates the magical aura into modern society, and her "map" based in the UK also gives this magical and abundant sense of history and rationality. It is obviously just a school adventure story that children are looking forward to, but many senior industry insiders immediately recognize many worldview messages with their experienced eyes!

"Can magic and science fiction still be compatible? The magic power of a mage is a new type of energy similar to electricity. The powerful brain waves turn into mental power to influence the movement of microscopic particles. The magical basic course "Magic Theory" allows us, who claim to be noble, to see the true power!"

"It's strange why we didn't realize it in the past. Think about it carefully, hover spell and flying techniques are indeed anti-gravity techniques in the field of science. Is magic really just high technology on another level? The magic wand, like a saying, "Yugadim-Leviosa," the young Ron used the power that humans can master in "Star Trek"!"

"The new type of magic completely opens its doors, and the scientific literacy of first-year students far exceeds that of Nobel Prize winners. Wizards will eventually rule modern society!"

There is no doubt that too many critics have discovered the most prominent feature of "Harry Potter". It is not that it inserts a strange world into the realm, but that Alice, as an entrepreneur in the technology world, has successfully integrated magical settings and real science together!

"There is no sense of incongruity at all. The eleven-year-old boy is incompetent to question the wizard's teaching. The school's teaching is like burning gold every word, perfectly integrating the history of the development of the magic system into the history of modern science and technology. What is magic? Magic is an elite high-tech based on the development of supernatural powers!"

"Was this a magical subject or a science fiction type? I can't help but wonder. Alice used a whole chapter to describe Harry's first "Magic Theory" class, which also allowed me, a well-read critic, to be baptized by a new education. The magic stone with controllable radioactivity can achieve the effect of turning stones into gold by changing the structure of basic particles. This really makes me imagine how many smart scientists will be born in the generation who grew up watching this series of seven plots?"

To be honest, although Americans are deeply influenced by British culture, the number of readers in the fantasy category is limited after all. This is not the UK. Compared with the type of "Star Trek", the loyal readers of magic novels are at most tens of millions. Seven hundred thousand copies sold in a month, but there are still too many people who have never seen it.

But now it's good. When a large number of book reviews describe it like this, it's not surprising that the phenomenon of republishing it like a blowout is not surprising.

It actually explained magic perfectly with science!?

To be honest, Europeans may feel a little disgusted, but this is exactly what hits the hearts of almost all Americans!

On Christmas Eve, it is the last time for every household to shop for a big meal, but this time, there are few people in front of the supermarket in the streets. On the contrary, many people ran to the door of the bookstore. Even though they were carrying large bags and small volumes, even if the team was following the corner of the street and headed to the other side, people still enjoyed it!

"I have a premonition that if my son really reads the seven-part Harry Potter plot, he will definitely be a scientist in the future!"

"I have read it with my sister-in-law, it's so wonderful. You know, I'm a serious physicist, so how can I read any magic novels in my daily life? You saw it, and I'm here to buy it now!"

"You guys tell me, how exactly does Alice-Wang's head grow? I also read that chapter of "Magic Theory" through my colleagues. You are a physicist, right? What do you think is feasible?"

If you want to talk about the most fascinating part of this whole "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", I believe no one will say it is the last "Double-faced Man". "Magic Theory" is a magic theory, which is really worthy of being a campus novel. The author actually used the teacher to attend the readers... and it was such a wonderful course!

"I just want to know how Alice came up with it." The physicist lined up and said, "The theoretical part is absolutely fine. As long as you are indeed a wizard... Don't laugh, I'm serious. Think about it, who could have thought of the practical application of electricity before Faraday? Then if these wizards also have a strange biological energy in their bodies, combined with the powerful brain waves that can sense the fluctuations of basic particles, wouldn't it be natural to invent a so-called spell and magic?"

The only thing that was the case with a word awakening the dreamer was that the physicist answered questions and answered questions to the customers in the queue, but wasn’t he influenced by Alice?

Furthermore, how many scientists have rarely bought a magic novel after seeing various news comments, and are affected?
Chapter completed!