Next week, the high-profile sci-fi blockbuster "Dune 2" will meet Chinese audiences, and the film is based on Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi ** "Dune". With the release of the movie, it is bound to set off a sci-fi craze. Before watching the movie, we recommend a few recently published Chinese science fiction masterpieces to readers, and maybe our "Dune" is also among them.
Sky Sail
Jiang Bo. Baguangfen Culture People's Literature Publishing House.
December 2023 edition.
This book is a full-length new work by Jiang Bo, the original author of the science fiction movie "Soul Hunting". The "Tianfan" space power station is a miracle brought to mankind by the Chinese, but in the face of the test from alien civilizations, the Chinese astronaut Jiang Xiaoyu and his colleagues stranded on the "Tianfan" have become the key to solving the crisis. The famous science fiction writer Liu Cixin called this book "an epic of the encounter and fusion of human beings and galactic civilizations".
The Shrike and the Thorns
Written by Tan Gang. Science Fiction World, Sichuan Science and Technology Press.
November 2023 edition.
This book is a new work by Shenzhen science fiction writer Tan Gang. Tan Gang's works are varied in style, and most of the content focuses on describing the changes in human society under the change of science and technology. In addition, Tan Gang's long-form sci-fi ** "Three Days and Moon" was also launched by Shenzhen Publishing House last year.
Jupiter Moment
Written by Li Jingrui.
Guangxi Normal University Press, Shanghai Beibet.
October 2023 edition.
This book is the latest collection of short stories by young writer Li Jingrui, including 9 short stories such as "Sparks" and "Wenyu River", spanning the author's 10 years of writing time, the whole book presents a variety of story types, both reality and science fiction, on the whimsical paper, nine stories, revealing the author's ever-changing spiritual core.
The Clown Years
Jiang Yi talked.
CITIC Publishing Group, Echo.
August 2023 edition.
This book is the first collection of short stories by writer Jiang Yi on "cross-border" science fiction writing, including 10 works created by him since 2021, the author writes science fiction stories with quiet and cold strokes, using robots as an incision, laying out speculative colors in the "futuristic" science fiction picture, and shining the light of humanity more vividly into the science fiction field full of "hardcore" settings and heroic imagination.
Beauty City Notes".
Written by Chen Chongzheng.
Flower City Press.
July 2023 edition.
This book is the work of writer Chen Chongzheng for many years, and the story tells the story of the "Beauty City" to form a metaverse virtual world after artificial intelligence has been fully developed, where the dream of human "eternal life" is entrusted. "Posthuman" Chen Xingguang and Guan Lixia have gone through challenges again and again to prevent the crisis from happening, and they keep recalling the past, only to find that their memories have become a game itself ......
A Day in the Floating Life
Written by Wang Nuonuo.
Shenzhen Publishing House.
July 2023 edition.
This book is also from the hands of a young science fiction writer, Wang Nuonuo from Shenzhen. The book includes 8 short and medium-length stories by the author, covering topics such as digital life, artificial intelligence, alien civilizations, cyberpunk, etc., and various possibilities for human survival in the future. The author uses a multi-dimensional and multi-line narrative in his writing, and readers can feel the double reading pleasure of science fiction and suspense.
Winner's Mecca
Written by Chen Qiufan.
Shenzhen Publishing House.
July 2023 edition.
As the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award Newcomer Award, Chen Qiufan was the first to put forward the term "science fiction realism" in China, and this concept is expressed in this book as a realistic proposition of "love and fear in the AI era". The book includes 6 masterpieces with the aesthetic imagination of science fiction realism, such as "The House of Love", "Script Life" and "Winner's Holy Land".
Later Humanity
Written by the Sugar Bandit. CITIC Publishing Group, Dafang.
April 2023 edition.
This book includes 3 novellas created by the writer Sugar Bandit from 2020 to the present**: "Watching Rainbow Treasure", "Happy Days", and "Half a Piece and Half Tone 2". The background of the story is set in the era of artificial intelligence development in the future, and the sugar bandit uses the "science" of science fiction to depict the "later humans" in detail, and captures the possible direction of life with a keen eye.
Author: Shenzhen Special Zone Daily).