"Well, the manuscripts for the next issue haven't been released yet. Everyone has been lazy recently and hasn't published any manuscripts."

Yang Xiao said with a smile, "Isn't it like this every year? Everyone is busy celebrating the New Year. There is no time to write a manuscript. There is no need to rush. According to the situation in previous years, the manuscript will come in in a few days. If it doesn't work, just write it.

Call them to urge them."

"If there is still no manuscript in another week, I will call them one by one. There are also He Xi and others who are close to each other. Then I will squat in front of their homes..."

As Tan Kai was talking, the phone in Yang Xiao's office suddenly rang. She nodded to Tan Kai, then walked over and answered the phone.

"Hello, hello...Yu Dong, happy new year, happy new year..."

Tan Kai originally wanted to go back to his office, but stopped when he heard the call from Yu Dong.

"Well, I'm at work, and no one at home answers the phone... You want a manuscript? Are you serious?"

Manuscript?

Tan Kai couldn't help but move closer.

Yang Xiao was also very excited, "Okay, a novella, more than 40,000 words, right? I'll give you more in one issue, and I'll publish it in six or seven issues. What do you think... You don't need to read it, you can decide it directly.

Please send the manuscript over quickly, and we will put it in the next issue for you... No, no, there is a gap in the next issue... Well, okay, let's put it this way."

When Yang Xiao put down the phone, Tan Kai couldn't wait to ask, "Yu Dong has a new manuscript?"

Yang Xiao smiled and nodded, "Well, that's what he told me. There is a 45,000-word manuscript that will be sent to our mailbox soon."

Tan Kai rubbed his hands, "The novella is not bad, but didn't you ask him at the last annual meeting and he said he had no new manuscripts? It has only been a few days and there is a new manuscript? This speed is too fast

Is it too soon?"

"You don't know Yu Dong's speed. It's not difficult for him to write a novella of more than 40,000 words in one or two weeks."

"I know how fast he is, but during the Chinese New Year, he must be quite busy, and he still has time to write novels."

Yang Xiao shrugged, "No matter what, he did write it down."

"Did you say what the theme is?"

"That's not true. I didn't ask. Anyway, the manuscript was sent over in a while."

"Then what are you waiting for? Just open your computer and log in to your email."

Then the two of them gathered around the computer and tinkered with it.

Ever since Deep Space Company sent several sets of computers to "Science Fiction World", their working model has completely changed.

The first is the submission of manuscripts. Most well-known science fiction writers have their own computers and write manuscripts on computers.

In the past, when magazines did not have computers, these writers needed to write their manuscripts on the computer, then find a printer to print out the manuscripts, and then send them to the magazine.

After the magazine has computers, the intermediate steps are omitted. Writers can directly send electronic drafts to the official email of the magazine through email, achieving paperless communication among themselves.

However, Yu Dong's manuscript is more troublesome than others. He still insists on writing it purely by hand, so after writing his manuscript, he has to send it to a professional typist who types the manuscript into a computer to generate an electronic manuscript, and then sends it to the Sci-Fi World mailbox.

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In fact, Yang Xiao and others can best feel the popularity of computers in China. Over the past year or so, more and more people have submitted electronic manuscripts, and the proportion has almost reached half.

Of course, this does not mean that half of the people have computers.

First of all, the people who submit articles to their magazine are originally highly educated people, and most of them are science and engineering talents. The proportion of these people who own computers is much higher than that of ordinary people.

Secondly, even if many people do not have computers, in order to pursue efficiency, they will go to Internet cafes to submit articles. Now the Internet fee in most Internet cafes is stable at about two yuan an hour, and even a night package only costs a few cents an hour. This is a big deal.

Some people can afford it.

The main reason for electronic submission is that the feedback speed is fast enough. For traditional submission, it will take at least two weeks to know whether the manuscript has been passed or not. Sometimes there may be no news for two or three months.

But for electronic submissions, you can usually find out whether the manuscript has been approved or not within two or three days. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can even get feedback on the same day.
Chapter completed!