Chinanews.com, Shanghai, February 21 (Wang Ji) The list of the first starting science fiction "Venus Award" was announced recently. "Deep Sea Embers" won the special prize, "Walking Alone in the Abyss", "Defending Nanshan Park", "From University Lecturer to Chief Academician" Awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze.
A total of more than 40,000 sci-fi web articles participated in this competition, and the winning works were finally determined through a strict review process.
Among them, "Deep Sea Embers" by writer Yuan Tong won the highest award - the special prize of "Venus Award".
Yuan Tong is good at describing epic and grand sci-fi stories in a relatively relaxed and pleasant way. "Deep Sea Embers" integrates legends about sea monsters in the age of great exploration, descriptions of the underwater world and hidden routes, etc. into sci-fi creations.
"Walking Alone in the Abyss", "Defending Nanshan Park" and "From University Lecturer to Chief Academician" respectively won the gold, silver and bronze awards of the "Venus Award".
The competition also selected several individual awards: "Spiritual Realm Walker", "No. 7 Base" and "My Universe in a Bottle" respectively won the Best IP Potential Award, Best Style Award, and Best Innovation Award; "Guardian AI of Civilization" "I started to transform into a dragon from a low-level martial arts world" won the Newcomer Award; "Won the Outstanding Work Award.
"Great Power Technology".
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It is worth mentioning that a large number of outstanding newcomers and new works emerged in this competition.
For example, the author of "Traveling to Become the Guardian AI of a Lost Civilization" is a "post-00" who has just entered the Internet. With his abundant imagination, rigorous and funny writing style, and extensive knowledge, he has won many readers. Jiu Yuejiang, the author of "Great Power Science and Technology", is a "post-95" who used to be the financial officer of a large company abroad. He has worked in Africa for many years and combined overseas experience, industry knowledge and rich imagination to complete the project. The creation of "Great Power Science and Technology".
In the past year, the "science fiction craze" has continued to heat up in the field of online literature. The young people of "Generation Z" have become the main force for reading science fiction online literature, and the copyright development of science fiction online literature is also accelerating.
In order to encourage writers to create high-quality sci-fi content, starting from 2022, China Literature will launch a series of support programs for sci-fi themes such as the "Venus Award" and "Starlight Award".
Yang Chen, vice president and editor-in-chief of China Literature, said that online literature has a brand-new science fiction discourse system, and traditional science fiction motifs have grown a series of new fusion writing directions in online literature, giving birth to many excellent works.
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