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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 2
Three-body trilogy volume 2
"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 1
Three-Body Trilogy volume Book II
Three-body trilogy volume 2
"Di qiu wang shi" san bu qu volume 1
Three-Body Trilogy volume Book II
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"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic...
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How colonialism profoundly influenced the emergence of Chinese science fiction
Challenging assumptions about science fiction's Western origins, Nathaniel Isaacson traces the development of the genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the New Culture Movement. Through careful examination of a wide range of visual and print media-including historical accounts of the institutionalization of science, pictorial representations of technological...
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2022.
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"From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can...
6) Waste tide
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they've created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of these clans, a role passed down from his father and...
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Thirteen intriguing visions of the future from China"--Cover.
"The thirteen stories in this collection...add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards in translation, some have garnered serious critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year's Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu's personal favorites.To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating...
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Chang Jiang wen yi chu ban she
Pub. Date
2023.
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This book is a collection of Liu Cixin's short and medium-length science fiction works, including such masterpieces as "Wandering Earth", "Chinese Sun", "Village Teacher", "Full Band Blocking Interference", "Supporting Humanity" and "Earth Cannon".--from Amazon
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The stories span the range from short-shorts to novellas, and evoke every hue on the emotional spectrum. Besides stories firmly entrenched in subgenres familiar to Western SFF readers such as hard SF, cyberpunk, science fantasy, and space opera, the anthology also includes stories that showcase deeper ties to Chinese culture: alternate Chinese history, chuanyue time travel, satire with historical and contemporary allusions that are likely unknown...
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