“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
The West’s exposure to Chinese Science Fiction on a mainstream level started 5 years ago with the translation of Cixin Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem”, a multi-award winner in its home country, but achieved global recognition by being the first Asian novel to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015. Since then, premier online Sci-Fi/Fantasy publication “Clarkesworld Magazine”, and Tor Books have endeavoured to translate more and more stories as interest has grown for these novelists reimagining the Science Fiction landscape.
This annotated bibliography will focus on authors of Chinese descent who have begun to make a global impact.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
The West’s exposure to Chinese Science Fiction on a mainstream level started 5 years ago with the translation of Cixin Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem”, a multi-award winner in its home country, but achieved global recognition by being the first Asian novel to win a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2015. Since then, premier online Sci-Fi/Fantasy publication “Clarkesworld Magazine”, and Tor Books have endeavoured to translate more and more stories as interest has grown for these novelists reimagining the Science Fiction landscape.
This annotated bibliography will focus on authors of Chinese descent who have begun to make a global impact.
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