First of all, the origin of speculative fiction: speculative fiction originated in the United States, the development of the United Kingdom, the popularity of Japan. Now the world's most important reasoning novel development is the Japanese literary world. In Japan's text reform, Edogawa Chaobu and Miki Takatora proposed to change "detective story" to "speculative fiction". Nowadays, the mainstream speculative fiction in the market is mainly from two sources: European and American speculative fiction and Japanese speculative fiction, mostly translated novels. There are very few reasoning novels written in Chinese, which is still a niche culture in the reasoning world and is still in its infancy. The ACG industry developed in Japan, but also appeared in the reasoning of the animated cartoon works.
To understand speculative fiction, we must first recognize the three great masters of speculative fiction: Seicho Matsumoto of Japan, Arthur Conan Doyle of the United Kingdom, and Agatha Christie. Among these three, I like Agatha's works the most. When I was a child, I watched the movie adaptation of her series of Detective Poirot, and I was impressed by her one after another brainstorming modus operandi. Of course the most famous of the three in China would be Mr. Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
? Today, I'm going to talk about the mode of writing speculative fiction that interests me the most.
? 1. The secret room murder mode. This mode is too famous, the world's first detective novel from 1841 American writer Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", about a pile of doors and windows from the inside of the closed house locked in a bizarre murder, is a typical secret room murder. But this is not the first novel to utilize the secret room trick. The honor should be given to the famous Irish speculative novelist Sheridan in 1838 in the Dublin University Magazine "an Irish countess secret history of a page". The secret room murder has in turn given rise to the pseudo-secret room murder model - the secret organ murder model.
? 2. Stormy Mountain mode. The Blizzard mode is mainly to bring together people who are not very y related, so that all of them are trapped in one place and can not get out. The founder of the model is Agatha grandmother, she wrote the classic masterpiece "lifeless" first mature use of the model, known as the reasoning of the novel fine works, followed by many people to imitate this writing techniques, but I think it is difficult to reach the height of the "lifeless", and I think the protagonist of the pseudo-stormy hill mode novels of split personality and does not belong to the reasoning of the novel, can not be classified into the ranks of the.
? 3. The country house school model. It is also a group of people gathered in a certain place, but this group of people is obviously closer than the blizzard mode, because there is a certain interpersonal relationship, only to go to the villa together, representative of Keigo Higashino's "Masked Villas".
? 4. Nursery rhyme murder, prophecy murder mode. Have to bring up Agatha's grandmother's "lifeless" again, the murderer in accordance with the nursery rhyme, prophecy for continuous murder activities, the nursery rhyme is equivalent to his continuous murder events like the script outline, resulting in a variant is that, the emergence of imitators continue to kill according to the outline of the murder down the line, the existence of a variety of murderers. The variant pattern is the teaser murder, the difference being that the nursery rhyme murder tends to occur and be discovered after a single killing, whereas the teaser murder is discovered before there has even been a murder.
5. Narrative trickery mode. See the text to mislead the reader, so as to suspect the wrong murderer, this is the author's clever place, according to his narrative to read on, and found into the trap, this is also Agatha grandmother commonly used writing techniques.
? 6. Code mode. It's a very Bengali reasoning mode, through decryption and then know who the murderer is, such as Keigo Higashino's "Graduation - Snow Flower Murder Game", which requires better logic skills to keep up with the author's brain circuits.
7. Astrological murder technique model. Shimada Shoji pioneered a speculative fiction mode, see interview he was counting money when he thought of this good idea, is to decompose the bodies of several dead people to put together a new body, Kanedaichi animation borrowed and created the classic "Inhuman Hall Village Murder", after this model was "Junior Bao Qing Tian" mercilessly copied changed into the famous dry body murder case, of course, "Junior Bao Qing Tian" is fast to the Kanedaichi The first time I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie, I saw the movie.
? 8. Timetable trick mode. The representative work is Matsumoto Kiyoharu's "Points and Lines", the use of timetable time to get themselves an alibi, suitable for railroad fans.
? 9. Twin mode. Twins who look the same and swap identities. Kyotaro Nishimura's "Hyperbolic Murder" and Miyabe Miyuki's "The Stepfather" are both examples of this mode, and as I write this I'm reminded of Nolan's "Deadly Magic", though it's a movie.
? 10. Message before death mode. Also known as the "dying clues", strictly speaking, this is the "code reasoning" special case, that is, the victim left some mysterious and inexplicable secret code, gestures, posture, code words, etc., used to point out the murderer or the key clues to solve the case, but these The "pre-mortem messages" are all incomprehensible, only to solve the borderline, such as the secret code of the mysterious "pre-mortem messages", to get the truth of the case.
? 11. Legend kill mode. Killers use a horrible legend as a cover for murder, and then the murder suspect planted to the content of the legend, so that people think it is the legend really led to the case, so that the case is characterized by a mysterious and unbelievable. Such as Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles.
? Today's speculative fiction mode analysis is written here, if you like it I can write more about the genre of speculative fiction in the future.