Book
Broken stars : contemporary Chinese science fiction in translation
Call Number
- SCIENCE FICTION BROK (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Languages
Translated from the Chinese.
Publication Information
New York : Tor, 2019.
Physical Description
479 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
Broken Stars, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-- is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Following Invisible Planets, Liu has now assembled the most comprehensive collection yet available in the English language, sure to thrill and gratify readers developing a taste and excitement for Chinese SF. Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West (Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners); some are publishing in English for the first time. Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s. 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 to the average Western reader. While the anthology makes no claim or attempt to be "representative" or "comprehensive," it demonstrates the vibrancy and diversity of science fiction being written in China at this moment. In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore the history of Chinese science fiction publishing, the state of contemporary Chinese fandom, and how the growing interest in science fiction in China has impacted writers who had long labored in obscurity.
Notes
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Contents
- Goodnight, melancholy / Moonlight / Broken stars / Submarines ; Salinger and the Koreans / Under a dangling sky / What has passed shall in kinder light appear / New year train / Robot who liked to tell tall tales / Snow of Jinyang / Restaurant at the end of the universe : Laba Porridge / First emperor's games / Reflection / Brain box / Coming of the light ; History of future Illnesses / Brief introduction to Chinese science fiction and fandom / New continent for China scholars : Chinese science fiction studies / Science fiction : embarrassing no more