The 8th Futuristic Science Fiction Masters Award
The results of the preliminary examination are announced!
Congratulations on the entry of the following works into the review
Preliminary judging panel (in no particular order)
Chen Xiaoyi
Veteran science fiction fan and editor, former editor of "New Science Fiction" (formerly "Science Fiction King").
Ding Shiying
Science fiction, popular science editing. Founder of Warm Night Studio. He has served as the head of a number of book brands, planned a number of book series, and edited and published a number of domestic and foreign science fiction books.
Fang Yuan
Editor of Chongqing Publishing House, loves fantasy and history books, and publishes books such as "The Shadow of the Raven", "Gentleman Thief", "The Prince of Wu", "The Light Bearer", "King Arthur", "Tudor Doubt" and so on.
Lee Bo Zhen
Director, film and television animation game multi-habitat creative, two-dimensional and geek culture promoter.
Tang Ling
Edited by Chongqing Publishing House, he published books such as "The Magician of London", "The First Law", "Rat King", "Dragon Heritage" and so on.
Tang Yizi
Editor, Chongqing Publishing House. Books published include A Song of Ice and Fire, Song of Dreams: A Retrospective of the Works of George R.R. Martin, Knights of the Seven Kingdoms, Nightcrawler, Warrior, Dangerous Woman, Outlaw, Memories, Sorrows and Thorns, etc.
Wang Liangting
Editor of Chongqing Publishing House, Master of English Literature of Sichuan University, has translated and published books such as "Tudor Series" "Three Sisters, Three Queens".
Wang Weijian
Master of Creative Writing from Fudan University, former editor of Science Fiction World magazine, currently working for Guomai Culture Media.
Wu Hao
Now he is the editor of the key book editing room of Chongqing Publishing House, with a wide range of reading interests and rich editing experience, mainly engaged in the editing of social science books.
Xu Ning
Editor, Chongqing Publishing House. He has published books such as "The End of the Curtain", "Nobunaga Burning", "Ninja Wind Taro", "The Gate of the Wind God", and "Konmei Cross Road". His translations include "Wind Forest Volcano" and "Heaven and Earth People".
Zhang Hailong
Director of Chinese planning, science fiction worker, publisher of science fiction books. Curated books such as "Interstellar Predator", "Ocean Wars", "The Land of No Light", "Survivor Game" and so on.
Zhao Zhongxia
Editor of Chongqing Publishing House, graduated from York University in Canada, with a wide range of interests, cyberpunk, xinghai, mecha, and large creatures are within the scope of his interests.
Judges' comments
Silicon Star Past - Dr. Assi
The imagination and control of science fiction are generally good, and the text is smooth and smooth. It's a speculative story set in a sci-fi setting, full of suspense. The setting is richly detailed, and the inversion at the end is just right.
Your eyes - Sim weimu
There are many science fiction novels on the theme of robots, and "Your Eyes" has a different approach, through the implantation of intelligent vision systems, so that some people treat another part of people as "robots". The reflection on class contradictions and the power boundaries of enterprises in the article is a response to the current social phenomenon. The portrayal of the character is more full of images.
Beautiful Old World - Ouyang Qian
Clear structure, concise and effective language, vivid description of a two-tiered world. In a short story, it is very difficult to do this. In addition, it also incorporates emotions such as love and hatred.
Disappearance of symptoms - Du Xiujun
A short story focusing on cancer, thrilling, funny, tightly paced, seemingly relaxed, the plot is relatively complete, and it has the visual sense of a Hollywood movie.
Magic Wonderland - Future Era
This article is not serious science fiction, but in a short space, it uses lively and flexible writing like a sketch to show a future campus environment. Those passionate children and brightly colored buildings in the sun are full of hope and beauty. The story is a few small interrelated fragments, concise but interesting, and point to a common ending, showing the author's ability to control the plot and text. In this batch of manuscripts with a dark overall tone, it is really a rare masterpiece.
Wise civilization - dry fun
(1): A work full of fun. The vivid depiction of microbes makes it conceivable that hundreds of millions of bacteria in our human bodies may be thinking about themselves. The author's knowledge of microbiology is well applied, there is no sense of rigidity, and he writes from the microscopic perspective of "bacteria", which is funny and humorous, and the language is vivid. It is worth encouraging.
(2): The depiction of the war in the microscopic universe in the human body is very vivid and the scene is grand, but the scientific explanation of how the Huidong civilization came from needs to be considered.
PatchIng up the heavenly stone - Li Tiancheng
The exploration of the origins of human civilization is the enduring theme of science fiction works, and this one also completes its own narrative purpose. The novelty is slightly lacking, but the writing is steady and the suspense is very good.
The past is no longer - I thunder
The story cuts to nature. Set with the shadow of the wandering earth, the point of "Virtual Era" is more interesting, but unfortunately it is only mentioned in depth. However, the fast-paced plot constantly brings readers to new scenes, naturally leads to a variety of science fiction settings, the overall degree of completion is high, the text has a sense of picture, and the details of depicting science fiction elements are in place. The ending reversal was somewhat unexpected, but slightly hasty.
Song of the Nibelungen - The Invisible
A soft science fiction short story, the story is complete, the writing is beautiful, the theme is unique and novel, and it is full of philosophy. The story is through several interesting souls: philosopher Nietzsche, Foucault, artist Munch, Van Gogh, psychologist Lacan, Jung, musician Beethoven, poet Hesse, black goddess Noether after identifying and reviewing the life of an unknown intruder when the god of death Hela's family was gathered, found that the interloper was an executed criminal, and the world today has been completely different from the world they lived in, the rapid development of modern technology and technology, the human body, temperament, life, and even life have had a negative impact, And the criminal's behavior may not be so unforgivable, and thus in-depth discussion of the concept of life and death, life, life, and world view, which is worth the reader's deep consideration.
Diverging Gugu - Overslept in the Morning
(1): The background structure of the story is relatively complete, and the description of the future human beings and human life is relatively systematic. The language is fluent, the text is clear, and the story is interesting.
(2): The details of human body transformation, the influence of the hierarchical system, and various "future social" conditions are reflected in Jack, a growing teenager. The intrigues of history, the greed of business practices, Jack carries these to find freedom, but the end of the story is tinged with a hint of bitterness and difficulty, as if the whole society has become a quagmire that is difficult to get rid of. In this moment, the reader truly resonates with Jack.
Life Radio Wave - Li Chuanyang
The big science fiction background is simple, but the story is well narrated and completed, focusing on the staff maintenance of lunar machine facilities as the main line, telling the story of machine awakening and artificial intelligence. Although the big setting is not dazzling or adds rich sci-fi elements, the story is smooth and the open-ended ending leaves the reader with room for flexibility.
Lunar trajectory - Wu Qi
The story setting contains sci-fi elements, smooth writing, and high readability. It tells that after the destruction of the earth, human beings built a huge space station, manufacturing and consuming the only remaining material and energy in major countries in the world, and the Hope space station took the remaining 100,000 elites and fled away from the home where humans have survived for millions of years and flew to space, while the remaining human beings could not escape the huge disaster of the "Future Gene Project".
Selling for a living - Rui Yu
A masterpiece that explores the "human form" in parallel with the class and discrimination that is common to people in today's society. "Humanoid" itself is an enduring science fiction concept, because like humans, humans are afraid of machinery, and because like humans, humans develop sympathy for distant aliens. We often like to assume that many science fiction works, especially those with love, if those people look different from humans, where will the story go? Like man, he is not like the existence of man, and he is most feared.
Not a group - Li Xia
In order to solve the problem of population explosion, robots guide human society from a "two-headed" society to a "group" society, and a small group of human beings rise up to resist, through a tragic way. The imagination is very bold in the form of human beings and the fiction of synesthesia technology, and constructs a strange future society.
Outlier - He Tao
The remnants of the aftermath of the disaster, depleted resources, and the emotional needs of the people who have been squeezed to the extreme are effectively presented in a limited space. The unpredictability and tragedy of exploration are also fully contagious. This, coupled with the inner torture of human self-identity at the end, makes this work a qualified science fiction story.
Wanmu Shen ink - deep thoughts
The novel narrative is smooth and mature, the description is delicate, good at rendering, profound and thought-provoking; the character portrayal is distinct and the emotions are rich; the novel does not depict too much ink and ink, access to science fiction elements, but the background setting is grand, accurately grasped, and the sense of substitution is very strong, which makes people think, which is commensurate with the main theme of the novel.
Dinah Linye
The overall degree of completion is good, with "Dinah" as the starting point, telling the story of the people who were abandoned by humans on earth for betraying humanity, the self-righteous humans told the people the destination in the opposite direction, and Dinah accidentally exposed the real destination in order to save mankind. The ending is ironic and has a surprise of reversal.
Three Heroes of Wind and Dust - Yan Ru
The narrative of the novel is smooth and logical, the writing is sophisticated, and the character portrayal is clear and prominent; although the science fiction concept is old-fashioned, it has taken a different path, and through this conception, a vivid and full character image is portrayed - a cowardly man who thinks he will love but does not dare to face reality; the novel atmosphere is successfully rendered, the sense of picture is very strong, and the ending is thought-provoking.
CuiPing Food Shop - A sea of light
The novel describes the truth, the language is exquisite, the narrative is novel; its bold and unbridled imagination is the biggest highlight, and in the one hundred and ten clichés of most people and robots, consciousness, and immortality, the imagination is amazing, the science fiction concept is not to be rigidly substituted, imagination is its foundation; and the intention is profound and thought-provoking.
Alien space "mushroom" - Xu Yanli
The author tells in exhaustive detail the story of an alien creature that "invaded" Earth from its appearance to its extinction. First, the reader is grabbed with a plot that is enough to cause a physiological reaction, and then the questions are constantly thrown out, and people can't help but follow it all the way. The difficulty of such stories is to truthfully and credibly describe beings that do not exist, and the author's ability in this regard is not bad.
Small town marriage - Linyuan fisherman
A retro story set in the context of the futuristic world. The story narrative is more attractive. The science fiction component is abundant and not blunt, and the language is fluent and easy to understand.
Cremation - Martini
The novel has a narrative structure, proficiency in language, natural beginnings and endings, endings in a natural way, and science fiction intentions. Excellent overall evaluation.
The Rain of the Isolated Island - Not the End
The narrative method of the story is relatively novel, and it is more fascinating to tell the story of the before and after the human experience of space disaster in an intimate tone.
Absolute order field - a rag
After a brief background introduction, the opening paragraph is written directly into the story. The author constructs very detailed rules for this new world. Through 6 different stories, 6 different characters, the living state of different classes of characters. The details of the new world are revealed, and the details give the new world charm and authenticity.
Push back note - clock pass
A work that interprets an ancient style legend into science fiction, and the magnificent Datang actually matches the sense of science and technology very well. The author is very careful about the details, and the text is also gripping. Although the historical figures in the work may be different from what we think, and even deviate from our assumptions about history in some places, this article is still worth reading even without historical context. Moreover, the author's perspective on the science fiction setting "peeping leopard in the tube" strengthens the charm of the work as a text itself.
Angry gladiator - Kryptonian
The article is short and capable, and in several pages it writes a story with a twist and a deep meaning, the fly in the ointment is that it is purely dialogue-driven and lacks details; in addition, the key setting of "Homo sapiens" repeats the human being itself, which is somewhat misunderstood, but perhaps it is also the author's intention.
Thieves Returns - Fog Sail Merlin
An important point of the story is that people on land evolved from marine animals, and through the phenomenon of sea level decline and dolphin stranding, the mysterious sea creature - sea people are born. Panic struck, and human beings were infected by viruses one after another, some dead and some sick, and some people wanted to take advantage of this to rule the world. Briefings, self-reports of terrorist leaders after their arrest, interviews with civilians, medical reports, interspersed narratives, exposing the terrifying conspiracy of terrorist leaders and telling the truth about the sea people's present life. A catastrophe of annihilation is imminent, and humanity and sea people must coexist peacefully, cooperate and face the next catastrophe together. The story is a wake-up call to the deteriorating environmental problems, with good ideas, unique materials and fluent writing.
Immortal - Li Wenlong
The text is very efficient, and a few strokes can clearly explain a plot and express a mood or psychology. The text is mature and the words are more accurate. Eternal life is a motif, and the power of eternal life is not whether it can make people immortal, but a series of social changes brought about by eternal life. The article shows this.
Yan Xue - Xu Mengxiong
"Hot Snow" seems to be a tribute to the ecological novel "Tiangen", reminding human beings to pay attention to the increasingly serious and urgent existential crisis and shoulder their due responsibilities. The protagonist lives in a digital city, buys everything through the numbers in his hand, and in order not to be zeroed out, and is made into a thoughtless puppet, he takes on a dangerous task: upload important documents in his brain and find the zeroer of the digital city. The Zero Clearer is like a hacker who can use cloud consciousness to clear anyone's hands of numbers, reducing all conscious citizens to puppets. It turns out to be a conspiracy, and the protagonist and the zero clearer are destroyed and turned into hot snowflakes. The story is short and concise, the language is concise, interspersed with several verses, and it is quite romantic.
The last night in the universe - Jiang Shen
This work can represent that science fiction in science fiction does not necessarily have to be woven by the hands of the protagonists of the story. It's a purely disaster novel, in which the sci-fi setting as a phenomenon overwhelms the people in the story. But at the same time, this is a very romantic work, it goes deep into the hearts of the characters and makes a very real and believable exploration. This kind of narration of the character's heart will make every reader feel that this story can happen in our lives at any time.
Kill God - Yan Shu
The setting is clear, and the story depicts a strong sense of emotion, a renunciation of friendship and love, and a choice of betrayal and freedom. All make the story much more readable. In the story, the world is also described sporadically, so that we have a clear understanding of the world. The text is slightly childish, but it is still good.
fiona - March
A relatively pure dystopian work, the Design of the Matrix. But the work wins in its construction of the world, so that this world that is different from the world we live in is equally bloody and real in front of our eyes. Because of reality, the extremes of the world make us look sideways. At the same time, this work has a good element construction, every detail in it means something, if you can maintain this advantage, this article has a certain potential for expansion.
Inspiration - Galia
The narrative is better, and the science fiction intention is better. The overall evaluation is good.
The undead of Baker Street - Wang Ya
Not rushed, not slow, the rhythm control is very good. The plot is cleverly designed and properly designed. The sentences are a bit inefficient and not concise enough, but they are still very fluent in reading.
Hence the time - Li Mu
The narrative has a certain idea, and the science fiction idea is better. Good overall evaluation.
Winter in Jinan - Wang Yuan
Jinan style, strong realistic atmosphere, the future "avalanche" background brought in, simple but very real, the novel is more used to describe the "future disaster" after the old city people's feelings for the past and the changes in the times between people and the feelings and connections between people, very successful!
Stone - King Reedor
The story is highly complete, the language is skilled, and the comprehensive evaluation is excellent.
Tsai Wei - Zhang Jiafeng
Through the perspective of Bo Yi and Shu Qi, they travel through the huge scale of time and space, and see the winds and clouds of the universe and the changes of all things. It is based on ancient characters and is beautifully written.
Dream - Xianliang
There is no life or death - Snow Moon Cat Cat
Telling that human beings have entered the age of immortality, but the human heart is becoming more and more empty, while seeking the ultimate in science and technology, it seems that all the beautiful thoughts and emotions that accompany people are far away from us, faith, love, care, companionship, and even lost the right to commit suicide, technology can make the dead come back to life, and delete all the thoughts about suicide in the brain, technology replaces all, in this world can not experience any truth, perhaps it is time to summon death back. This story uses the immortal gene professor's nostalgia for the past world and the remaining emotions to find the meaning of life in his own way, although it has little impact on the present, but perhaps it is a relief for him and a way to show his attitude. The story is complete, the theme is unique, and it has practical significance.
Immortal - Lin Mu Sen
In 2049, human beings will realize immortality by uploading consciousness and informatizing the body. "The Immortal" explores the proposition of what is the self, and the most popular virtual world builder, Chen Dian, why he rejects informatization, is precisely out of such concerns, that is, whether the "I" after uploading consciousness is still the original "me". The story is wonderful, and at the end, Chen Dian, out of love for his girlfriend, is forced to be "immortalized", which is very dramatic.
Cangsheng - Stone Obsidian
Another face of science fiction works presents the abstract charm of science fiction. It is difficult to interpret this kind of work in the traditional way, but we should feel more. On a certain level, I think this kind of work is a good work that only people in the East, who are immersed in Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian culture, can create.
Mulan's choice - tension
The narrative is straightforward and the reading sense is clear and neat. This article is more old-fashioned in terms of theme and intention, can be skipped, but the advantage of this article lies in the integrity of the story, in a fairly short space, the author uses beautiful and capable writing to lay out the mystery in the first half of the story, creating a number of characters with clear personalities, cute and respectable, and only uses one page to quickly solve the puzzle, but does not stop abruptly at this time, but uses two pages to end the story, reflecting the author's ease in text collection.
In terms of character shaping, the character of the protagonist Mulan can be said to be complex, first of all, she is a woman, but also a soldier, but also a wife and a mother, the overlap of various identities, prompting her to make a choice, showing perseverance at the same time, showing weakness; in the rebel military order at the same time, showing principles; and behind the seemingly selfless choice is actually a strong selfishness, which can cause the reader to reflect and discuss. As the narrator, "I" assume the role of connecting the plot and embodying the tragic atmosphere. As for the other characters, they also have their own value.
The shortcomings of this article are also very obvious, the story is too old-fashioned, and even have such a feeling after reading, but this article in eleven and a half pages, can write about the effect of appearing, has been considered valuable, as mentioned above, tell a story clearly, not arbitrarily elevated, is a lack of characteristics of some short story authors.
Congratulations on the above works being shortlisted for review
Thank you again to all the authors for their support and attention
"Xinnet Digital Wisdom Award" and "Campus Rising Star Award"
The winning entries will be announced after the final review
The review period is 2019.9.17 -9.25
At that time, we will publish the review list
Stay tuned~