Crazy Psychologist

"What?"

Liu Yun couldn't believe what he heard.

The young doctor holding a coffee cup in front of him looked about the same age as Liu Yun.

But he looks like an unreliable man.

"Did I do something wrong? I thought I would be praised by you."

He crossed his legs angrily, leaned on the chair, stretched out his hand, and alternated his two fingers, unable to reach the handle of the coffee cup.

Liu Yun's heart ached after seeing it, so he stood up helplessly and pushed the coffee cup in front of Muchun. I thought to myself, this person is really lazy. He didn't even bother to lift up and pick up the coffee cup when he lay down.

Seeing Muchun reclining and taking a sip of coffee with an acrobat-like movement, Liu Yun felt more and more that there was something wrong with his recent state. He was probably looking for reasons not to sit in the study and work properly.

Although we know that it is impossible for a writer to maintain a good creative state every day, 365 days a year, it is even less possible for him to write seriously and strictly according to his schedule every day without getting sick or encountering problems for several years.

But we can't waste time in a strange clinic with an even stranger doctor.

"Are you really not going to praise me?"

Mu Chun, who was still crying after drinking coffee, asked Liu Yun arrogantly, "Don't you really think that what I did is interesting enough or that I should do it?"

Liuyun shook his head, but said, "Okay, should I thank you?"

"Of course you have to thank me. All you science fiction authors have to thank me."

Muchun raised her chin, did she really think she was a arrogant princess?

Liuyun wanted to laugh but didn't want to.

"That kind of person just plagiarizes himself and makes random comments on other people's novels. What's wrong with me treating others the same way they do?"

The person Mu Chun was talking about was the reader who left a comment on Liu Yun's novel a few days ago. Unexpectedly, Mu Chun also read the novel and found the person who made the comment.

"This guy is actually an author."

When Muchun said this, Liuyun was also surprised.

Turns out to be an author.

Indeed, I didn't expect it at all.

"How did you get the idea to research this comment?"

Liuyun still couldn't help but ask.

"I am also a scholar."

It really doesn't look like it. Liuyun said in his heart.

Then I thought about it, when Muchun talked about the writer's quirks a few days ago, he really talked about the author's hobbies and told a lot of interesting things about the author.

Of course, it is also possible that he just happened to read some articles about writers' reviews, and may not really be a person who likes to read.

There are many people like this now. They just show off how many books they have read in various forums or book comment areas. In fact, they just understand the general content of some stories, and may not have read a book personally.

For example, those famous works, "Dune", "Lord of the Flies", or "Fire Over the Abyss".

Many people have heard of it, but how many have read it?

"Unexpectedly, I discovered that this person was actually an author, and I also discovered that he had won some local science fiction essay awards."

"Have you won an award? So you're a somewhat famous author?"

There are not many science fiction authors, and there are only a few essay contests every year. If he is the winner of the grand prize, Liu Yun has no reason not to know about it.

"You said he plagiarized?"

"Yes, plagiarism."

Liu Yun became more and more disbelieving of Muchun's resolute tone.

"Plagiarized from what? Domestic or foreign?"

"Foreigners, do you know Ursula Le Guin?"

"You ask me if I know Ursula Le Guin? Are you kidding me? It's like asking me if I know Liu Cixin or Asimov."

"Very good, so you know it. Then let me ask you again, how many domestic science fiction readers do you think know about Ursula Le Guin?"

"This is really not much. The author should know more. Readers may not be too familiar with Le Guin's works, although she is the same as C.S. Lewis, the author of "The Chronicles of Narnia" , and there are great fantasy writers like Tolkien who wrote "The Lord of the Rings"."

“Do you think more people know more about Tolkien and Asimov than Ursula Le Guin?”

"It must be Tolkien and Asimov, the "Foundation" series, the Three Laws of Robots, and "The Lord of the Rings". These are all familiar, but as for Le Guin, I'm afraid not many people know her. Learned so much about Asimov and Tolkien.”

"Right, so the author thought that no one would know that he plagiarized Le Guin's novel."

"But didn't the judges find out? And they actually won the award? Maybe it's not plagiarism, but the settings are somewhat similar. These things are not uncommon. After all, it's not that easy to write new ideas that no one has written before. thing."

"Basically not." Muchun sighed, "How is it possible to write such a completely refreshing novel now?"

"What did he plagiarize? The Earthsea series or The Left Hand of Darkness?"

Muchun shook his head, as if he had seen these works before, shook his head, and then shook his head.

"What is that? Could it be "The Word of the World is Forest"?"

"No."

Liu Yun doesn't know. Is there really something wrong with his recent memory? Is there anything else by Le Guin that he hasn’t seen?

Liu Yun couldn't figure it out. He had exhausted his brain and his forehead hurt a little.

""Changing Planes", do you know this collection of novels?"

Liu Yun's face turned red. How could he have forgotten this novel? This is a collection of short stories by Le Guin. A version was published by Xinxing Publishing House more than ten years ago. Every short story in this book is... It is an experiment in new writing methods.

Le Guin uses a carefully designed format to organically combine the travel notes of otherworldly and the investigative reports of alien creatures.

The book is full of Swiftian irony, and the fantasy part is similar to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"...

Although "Legends of Earthsea" is still one of the favorite fantasy novels of many foreign teenagers, in terms of surprise and wonder, this slim collection of short stories can be said to be a pearl.

But this book has long been unavailable. Liu Yun has been looking for this book, but has never been able to buy it. The price of a second-hand bookseller is more than 1,000 yuan, which really scares Liu Yun.

Relying on the English proficiency of barely passing CET-6, Liu Yun has read some English versions of this book, not completely, but only a few of them.

I actually forgot about this book. It really shouldn’t be.