Chinanews client, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Shangguanyun) Recently, at the 2020 China Science Fiction Conference, the "2020 China Science Fiction Industry Report" was released.
According to the report's statistics, in 2019, China's science fiction has developed steadily, with a total industrial value of 65.871 billion yuan for the year.
Indeed, nowadays science fiction literature and science fiction film and television dramas have gradually become hot topics, including their peripheral products, with a lot of fans... Many people are also thinking about a question: science fiction works are so concerned, in the future, China's science fiction industry will usher in Broke out?
Data map: On November 1, the "Science Fiction Night" event of the 2020 China Science Fiction Conference was held at the No. 3 Blast Furnace of Shougang Park, Beijing. The cool light show and other content added fun to the citizens' weekend life.
The picture shows the performers of the robot imitation show interacting with citizens.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
The total value of China's science fiction industry in 2019: 65.871 billion yuan
A few days ago, the "2020 China Science Fiction Industry Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") was released.
According to reports, this report mainly counts four major industries: reading, film and television, games and peripheral products.
The report shows that the total value of China's science fiction industry in 2019 was 65.871 billion yuan, an increase of more than 20 billion yuan from 45.635 billion yuan in 2018.
Among them, the overall output value of the sci-fi reading market in 2019 was about 2.01 billion yuan, an increase of 13% year-on-year, and the market scale has increased compared with 2018. This is partly due to the promotion of the movie "Wandering Earth".
Subdivided into the sci-fi book market, the head effect is more prominent: the sci-fi book retail market basically relies on few head-selling books (mainly the "Three Body" series and the "Galactic Empire" series, Verne Sci-Fi series) Propped up.
This conclusion can also be confirmed from another figure.
A few days ago, in the first three quarters of 2020, the three major lists of fictitious, non-fictional, and children's open-book comprehensive retail were announced. In the TOP10 fictional list, "Three Body" ranked second.
What is the charm of science fiction?
In all links of the science fiction industry, literature is undoubtedly an important link.
On the 2nd, in a "Science Fiction Keynote Speech" at the 2020 China Science Fiction Conference, the views of guests such as science fiction writer and screenwriter Chen Chufan, and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Sci-Fi World" attracted widespread attention.
Data map: On November 1, the "Science Fiction Night" event of the 2020 China Science Fiction Conference was held at the No. 3 Blast Furnace of Shougang Park, Beijing. The cool light show and other content added fun to the citizens' weekend life.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
Chen Yufan has been paying attention to the related topics of popular AI writing very early. “In science fiction and movies, we continue to see the appearance of artificial intelligence images; now in the writing field, we will imagine whether we can use other intelligent tools to help humans complete writing."
However, the current artificial intelligence is far from being able to replace human writing.
In the science fiction industry chain, science fiction literature still has soil for its existence, growth and even prosperity.
In Chen Maofan's eyes, the charm of science fiction lies in its inability to be imaged and visualized. For example, some technological elements in "Three Body" are difficult to convey concretely and require readers to make up their own minds.
"In this way, after self-imagining and supplementing, you will have a great reading pleasure. This pleasure is the process of subject-object interaction." He said, "Now, we may be able to integrate literature and science, including crossing over. Media dialogue and so on."
From "magazine era" to "industry era"
Perhaps, in the minds of some people, science fiction literature plays a fundamental role in the science fiction industry chain, providing texts for film and television dramas, and providing various insights for derivatives.
Raz, the editor-in-chief of "Sci-Fi World" magazine, made a simple division: In recent decades, Chinese science fiction has basically gone through the magazine era and book era, and has skipped the film and television era and entered the industrial era. Film and television are regarded as an important component of the science fiction industry. section.
He believes that due to the development of mobile Internet and social media, the magazine era has a significant decline, which is more obvious around 2008. "After the popularity of Weibo, traditional online forums gradually disappeared, reducing the concentration of sci-fi fans’ feedback on reading experience and sci-fi Edit the channel for gathering information from readers."
As the writer Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award, his works immediately became the focus.
Raz explained to a reporter from Chinanews.com that the above-mentioned science fiction book era began in 2013. The publication of "Three-Body 3: Death Eternal Life" drove the publication of science fiction books by major book institutions. It was also at this time that people began to have an interest in science fiction movies. Look forward to.
Data map: The picture shows one of the official posters of "Wandering Earth".
Photo by Zhong Xin
After several years of accumulation, "Wandering Earth" brought the popularity of science fiction movies, which quickly attracted the attention of market capital.
Raz revealed that in order to follow the trend of the forward development of the science fiction industry, "Science Fiction World" has also established a copyright department and an IP operation center.
What is the future?
It is worth noting that nowadays the science fiction industry chain is continuously extending. In addition to literature and film and television dramas, science fiction peripheral products are also receiving attention.
As mentioned in the aforementioned report, the head effect of the sci-fi peripheral product market has begun to highlight. The total output value of peripheral products such as "Wandering Earth" and "Three Body" and other hot IP peripheral products in 2019 will be 500 million yuan, which has become an explosive growth point in the peripheral product market. .
"With the popularity of well-known IPs such as "Wandering Earth" and "Three-Body" in 2019, the industry is slowly gaining strength. However, Sun Yue, founder of Saifan Sci-Fi Space, mentioned that with such a swarm of influx, products are prone to appear Problems such as homogeneity and low quality.
He told a reporter from Chinanews.com that the development of high-quality derivatives requires patience: For example, if you don't have visual materials, you can start with the text and patiently find materials that can be visualized.
"In this way, combining the specific usage scenarios of the product, designing derivative products that are both creative and practical, and at the same time closely integrated with sci-fi IP, gives everyone a better experience." Sun Yue said.
In fact, for the entire science fiction industry chain, "interaction" may be one of the key words.
Raz believes that novels, literary works, and film and television dramas are actually based on each other, "starting with novels, not just novels; starting with film and television, not just movies."
"In the science fiction industry, in fact, all directions can be an interactive ecological structure." Raz is confident about the future of China's science fiction industry, and he believes it will usher in an explosion.
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