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[Chapter 328.327 Vest and Filmization]

For hard science fiction works, science fiction is the most important, even far surpassing writing and storytelling.

And many science fictions directly put the scientific fantasy in the book in the form of the title of the book, so that readers can understand it at a glance.

Such as Andy Weir's "The Martian", Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", and Asimov's robot series.

Tachizawa Yuriko, as the head of the science fiction club, naturally understands this truth.

So after seeing the name "The Sinking of Japan", she immediately knew what kind of theme the book was about.

For a while, she was a little excited.

Among the manuscripts submitted, there is finally a manuscript that is not a soft science fiction work about space battleships or robot combat.

In addition, this science fiction work about the sinking of Japan has never been written before,

But apart from being excited, Tachisawa Yuriko was actually a little worried.

After all, although this topic sounds very attractive, the contributor named Akihara is something she has never heard of before.

So, can such a newcomer really write any excellent works?

Will he waste the subject and write something specious?

For example, use the gimmick of Japan's sinking to tell some love stories between men and women.

This kind of thing is not unprecedented, or in other words, there are too many precedents.

Thinking of this, Tachizawa Yuriko restrained her mind, and decided to take a look first before talking.

She took out this thick manuscript, put it on the table, then lowered her head, and began to read it carefully with a scrutiny attitude.

At the beginning, I talked a lot about geography and astronomy, which is not bad. It seems that the author has put in a lot of hard work.

Hey, it turns out that the sinking of Japan can be explained by this statement!

Because the Japanese archipelago is located at the junction of the North American plate, the Pacific plate, and the Philippine Sea plate and the Eurasian plate.

The Pacific plate is subducting below the Eurasian plate due to crustal movement.

This leads to three possibilities.

The first is two plates, jacked up against each other.

The second is to insert one plate under the other and lift the other plate up

The third is that the subducting plate will bring the large plate where the Japanese archipelago is located into the deep crust.

The article also quoted a scientist's point of view in 1977, that is, scientists confirmed that the Japanese crust did gradually sink to the east trench. (True event.)

Seeing this, Tachizawa Yuriko couldn't help but feel horrified. Is it possible that Japan will sink?And what happens after it sinks?

With new questions, she continued to look down.

Time passed by, and the sky outside the window also changed from blue to yellow, and then turned into pitch black again.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Tachizawa Yuriko finally finished reading this extremely heavy manuscript, and she found that it took her more than 10 hours.

At this moment, she was already hungry and thirsty.

But even so, she didn't have the idea of ​​standing up to eat something, but her pupils shrank, and her eyes shone with excitement.

At this moment, she has already admired this work and the author of the work.

This book, this... Who wrote it!

This is much more interesting than those books that tell love stories between men and women under the guise of science fiction!

Rigorous and detailed scientific setting, social dynamics in which human nature is facing a crisis, and no-long-winded writing style, even if it is placed in the world of science fiction literature, it can be said to have a place!

Could it be that some retired sci-fi masters felt dissatisfied with the current sci-fi world, so they started to work again?

Or is there a foreign sci-fi writer who specially wrote the Japanese version to participate in the award?

Thinking of this, Tachizawa Yuriko turned her attention to the first page of the manuscript, which is the contributor's column

On it, there is a line of Akihara written.

Akihara?

Tachizawa Yuriko read a few words silently, thinking of the Japanese translation of the name, which is "Akihara".

Could it be that the reasoning writer Hiroto Akihara wants to enter the world of science fiction?

Tachizawa Yuriko couldn't help but think of this possibility.

But she quickly shook her head, feeling that she was thinking too much.

Hiroto Akihara, as the best-selling writer in the neon reasoning world today, has won the Uemura Award, which represents the highest award for neon reasoning.

The current status of reasoning is much better than that of the declining science fiction.

So she couldn't think of any reason for Hiroto Akihara to enter the world of science fiction.

In addition, as a reasoner, even if the other party is really interested in writing science fiction, he probably writes works of soft science fiction, and at best he is just a newcomer.

A rigorous and reasonable work like "The Sinking of Japan" cannot be written by a newcomer.

So the question is, which predecessor or colleague's work is it?

She frowned and thought about it for a long time, but finally she couldn't figure it out, so she decided to give up.

After all, in her opinion, as long as the other party comes to the scene to win the prize, she will definitely meet the other party in real life.

……

While Tachizawa Yuriko was amazed, Akihara Yuto was waiting for someone in a small private room of an izakaya while drinking shochu.

And the person he was waiting for today was Nei Haituo.

After "Memories of Murder" became popular, this part-time independent investor director also got a lot of opportunities by virtue of this opportunity.

Not only many film companies have invited him to make films, but even investors are willing to invest in him to make new films.

To put it simply, he has now become a celebrity in the film industry.

Hiroto Akihara approached him today, but it was about the filming of the work "The Sinking of Japan".