Searchlights are good books
In January 2022, he was shortlisted for the list of Chinese and foreign genre novels
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The following are the chinese and foreign genre novels shortlisted in January 2022, in no particular order.
Thanks to the authors, translators, editors-in-charge, and producers and publishers of these works.
Translate fictional | Novels in the novel genre | science fiction
The Phoenician Apocalypse
[English] Ian By M. Banks
Luo Cheng translation
Nova Press
January 2022
Nominated judge: Yao Haijun
Introduction: "Civilization" is an interstellar utopia in which humans and machines coexist. Intelligent machines are equal inhabitants of the civilized world, with distinct personalities, positions, and quirks, and even have a higher status than humans. Here, advanced technology can provide people with an incomparably rich material wealth, and any need can be easily met.
In 1267 A.D., a war raged through the galaxy, with moons, planets, and even stars facing destruction. During this galactic catastrophe, a high-level intelligent machine fleeing to an alien planet attracts the attention of both warring sides. Hoza accepts civilization's mission to travel to the Dead Planet to retrieve the crashed ARTIFICIAL. Ring worlds, devourers, deadly games... A romantic and cruel cosmic wandering begins!
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Web Literature and Science Fiction
"From the Red Moon"
The old ghost of Montenegro
The starting point Chinese the net
Nominated judge: Xiao Jinghong
Description: The dark red moon hangs low above the tall buildings of the city, almost covering half of the sky.
A dark black ring train with many rust marks on the body quickly traveled through the city under the gaze of the red moon, and inside the train, passengers dressed in various colors were either reading newspapers or dozing off in dim light...
"Ding, the Moon Terrace has arrived!" 〞
Lu Xin was startled from his sleepiness, lifted the bag, and flowed out of the carriage with the surging crowd. Carrying his bag, he walked over the dirty and dilapidated steps, the platform full of newspapers, and to the ground of the city. Looking up, the neon lights around it make the city's streets and the crowds on the streets have a colorful and strange feeling, but no matter how colorful the streets are, the red moon above the city still represents the background of the world.
The world has been like this ever since the Red Moon event appeared thirty years ago...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | legend
The Hermit Doctor
He is always there
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
Nominated Judge: Xia Lie
Introduction: "Hermit Wisdom Doctor" is not only a novel about the sorrows and joys of two generations, love and hate, but also a journey of exploration about Traditional Chinese medicine and traditional culture.
One stormy night, the father of Zheng Dao, the inheritor of the Chinese medicine family, left a book and ran away. Why didn't his father quit and let him hide his identity? Why would a life sciences institute disguise itself as a pawn shop? What earth-shattering secrets are hidden behind this?
Zheng Dao, who is pregnant with traditional Chinese medicine skills, meets Shen Xiangwei, a rich woman who is seriously ill, and becomes her personal assistant, in the process of treating her, he falls in love with this cute girl and gets involved in the fight between the two giants. He not only had to face the many difficulties of his love rival, He Wuwei, the prince of the Hua Clique, but also fell into an unprecedented crisis...
The boss behind his pawn shop seems to have another secret, and in order to solve the mystery behind this, he uses the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional culture to skillfully maneuver with the various forces representing gold, wood, water, fire and earth...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Real Life
"The Reversal Couple"
Xiao Bei
Starting point girls' network
Nominated judge: Yang Chen
Introduction: Suddenly found that Zhao Xiaodao, a housewife who was pregnant with three children, shattered her dream of returning to the workplace; on a morning because of a conflict over family trivia, she rushed out of the house and decided to go to the fetus. At this time, the wheel of fate came a lottery broadcast - the husband and himself exchanged identities, the in-laws and parents exchanged identities... Therefore, Zhao Xiaodao transformed into the domineering president Qin Tianyi, and the overlord husband became a cautious pregnant woman Zhao Xiaodao. The two widened their eyes and began a hilarious new life of cohabitation and career at the same time.
only...... Still pretty sweet?
Translate fictional | Short and medium story collection | science fiction
Rhapsody of Lyme
[Poland] Stanisław Lem
Translated by Lao Guang
Reader Culture, Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
Without intelligence, humans could have evolved more perfectly. After decades of serving the government, the military computer "Clay Man" rebelled. It served as a high commander of the ZUI, directing transnational military operations. Now he is publicly humiliating lawmakers and refusing to cooperate with the military. Then, there was silence.
The "clay man" opened his mouth again, but he spoke a surprising word to all mankind. Is human intelligence a trap? Is human civilization a gamble? Is human evolution a series of mistakes?
……
If this is the truth of evolution, wouldn't the so-called "human beings are higher beings" become an absurd joke? 5 thought-provoking rhapsodies of the future, 5 postmodern fables of laughter and anger.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature · Revision
"This Human Being Is Too Serious"
Back to the point
December 2021
Introduction: A burly uncle wearing leather armor watched the teenager fall down and greeted with concern in his loud voice: "Are you okay, Little Lord?" The teenager waved his hand weakly, and replied weakly: "It's okay, let me rest for a while." "Just wanted to sell a miserable, ruthlessly exposed."
But as a young lord of the Xionghu Clan, one of the ten major clans in the north of the Shan Fox Mountain, he had the only patriarchal inheritance right, was he very happy? There's no internet, no electronic entertainment, or even a few paper books!
Even if he was a young lord, he was more of a small follower with a drooling nose and worn leather armor, and there were not even a few beautiful little maids who could talk and relax at night. Wu Yu had no idea that Lao Tiangu let him live again with the memories of the flower world in his previous life, whether it was a reward or a punishment...
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | Through
"My Lover"
Sun: Written by Takehiro Ueda
Translated by Wang Lan
Introduction: "My Lover" takes a modern person with memories of past lives as the protagonist, telling the story of a future and lovers who are waiting across the long river of human history. A hundred thousand years ago, the first "I" was a Cromoron, possessed great wisdom, foresaw the situation in the world to come, wrote prophecies on the walls of the cave, and painted a woman living in the future, that is, the lover that "I" identified. Time comes to the twentieth century Berlin, the second "I" is a Jew, affected by the evil tide of the times, staying in the shelter to ruminate the memories of the ancient times, constantly thinking of the lovely lover, and finally being starved to death. Time comes to modern times, "I" was born in Japan, a woman appeared in front of "I", her experience is almost the same as the experience of the lover imagined by the first "I"...
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | science fiction
Heliconia II Summer
Brian M. W. Aldis
Translated by Hualong
People's Literature Publishing House
Description: On the surface of the planet Heliconia, a thousand light-years from earth, an epic of civilization spanning centuries is staged. The fate of the Terrans, their nemesis, Fagun, and other races, ebbed and flowed as the Earth-like planet orbited the binary star system of two star systems, Freyer and Batalix, all of which were "live". The fates of the Heliconiaans and the Earthlings began to intertwine...
Heliconia entered the summer of the Great Cycle year, and the sword tribe Yuri crouched down next to the human king and became the royal pet. At the same time, the human Billy on the "Aphonas" won the jackpot, was able to land in Helikonia to experience the real life, and was involved in the political vortex of King Jandol Angonor, the "Queen of Queens" Meldegara, the Minister of Charge, Satorevas and many others, and a big drama was about to begin...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Suspense Reasoning
《Golden Dress Jade Order》
Ji Jin
Xiaoxiang College
Introduction: Shi Yong's previous life was for men's liver and brain, and finally got a "female devil head" notoriety tragic death in prison, which made it clear that crossing must have love is a joke. Reborn into Ah Shi's body, she decided to be a mediocre female messenger and wait for death.
But from then on, most of the Jinyi Wei governors relied on her to continue her life, the grand eunuch of the East Factory called her aunt, the prince was the one she watched grow up, and a series of strange cases forced her to shoot... Is this damn person, is it mary sue, or is it a shura field?
Translate fictional | Genre novel collection | fairy tale
Roald Darhey Fairy Tale Series (all 6 volumes)
By Roald Dahl
Ma Ainong Cheng should be cast and translated
Guomai Culture, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Description: 6 short stories by legendary British writer Roald Dahl, fairy tales for adults, 62 literary classics.
Lambs to be Slaughtered: This is a collection of short stories about "deception." Here, you will read: murder weapons swallowed by the police, gamblers who open orphanages, drunkards who steal umbrellas for money, companies that specialize in revenge, bookstores that do not make money by selling books... Ten fairy tales, revealing the truth of all the "deceptions" of life at once: the so-called perfect deception is nothing but an illusion waiting to be punctured. Among them, "Lambs to be Slaughtered" was the first in the private book list of the best-selling "Island Bookstore" owner A.J. Fickley, and "Southern Man" was included in the Hitchcock Suspense Story Collection, which was later adapted by director Quentin Tarantino into the film "Four Rooms".
The Boy Who Talks to Animals: 10 Irrational Short Stories. You will meet little boys who love animals so much that they swim with turtles; husbands who are jealous of domestic cats; landladies who want their guests to stay forever; men who are misguided by their pork addiction and wives who have a morbid fear of being late... Attentive readers will find that their madness stems from losing control. It is through these ten surprising and frustrating stories that Roald Dahl explains to us what happens when we lose our minds. The article "The Landlady" won Roald Dahl the second "Ellen Poe Literary Prize" in his life in 1959.
The Princess and the Poacher: 9 short stories about greed. The poacher who saves the princess but is strangely rewarded by the king, the butler who easily defeats and hates his employer, the story of two arrogant young men and a boy who is bullied by them, and the man who does not know the value of the tattoo on his back... These stories, while shaking the soul, use fairy tale metaphors to persuade people to be good. Cruel thoughts hide in everyone's heart, and once they are out of control, they will have ridiculous consequences. One of them, "Skin", brought Roald Dahl his third "Eden Poe Literary Award" in 1980 and adapted it into a British drama, which won a large audience.
The Colonel's Coat: This is a collection of short stories about "tricks." The dentist's wife who is overshadowed by her husband's lover, the princess who is killed instead of killing the king, the father who kills people by the hand of his son, the soldier who falls into the nest of the enemy army, the prey who is accidentally "resurrected"... Nine fairy tales, see all the "tricks" of the world at once: people who are tempted by interests always calculate everything, but they always waste their efforts! Among them, "Beware of Vicious Dogs" was adapted into a movie twice, and "The Colonel's Coat" was adapted into a series four times.
Madame Rosetta: This is a collection of short stories about "lust." The "misogynistic" man who fantasizes about being swallowed up, the playboy who hunts in the desert, the aphrodisiac potion that makes people crazy, the husband who plots to punish his wife, the absurd experiments that are carefully planned... Ten fairy tales, once revealing the impulse of "lust" in human beings: the more people want to manipulate lust, the easier it is to be manipulated by lust.
Stranger Things: This collection of short stories written by Roald Dahl features a selection of 14 creepy classic short stories, including A.M. Borreich's The Invisible Playmate, Sheridan Le Faneu's Ghost Hand, Edith Wharton's The Kind, Cecilia Asquis's The Corner Shop, and Marie Tridgold's Telephone. The best ghost stories don't have ghosts, at least not to let you see ghosts, instead, you see only the results of its actions. Occasionally you can feel it brushing past you, or make you aware of its presence through subtle techniques.
Translate fictional | Short story genre collection | science fiction
"StarPort Controller"
By Kazusui Ogawa
Translated by Zhang Le
Sichuan Science and Technology Press, Science Fiction World
Description: "Starport Controller" contains five short works by Kazumizu Ogawa with very different styles. Among them are romantic space operas, deep works that explore the relationship between humans and AI, and fantasy masterpieces that have won nebula awards. A short but fascinating story introduces the reader to the gentle and hopeful future world of Kazumizu Ogawa.com.
"Road Soul": Intelligent motorcycles can better serve human beings. However, if the motorcycle too has its own ideas... Something interesting could happen then.
"Golden Bread": How will the lone pilot turn the danger into a disaster in the face of the strange customs of the indigenous people who are forced to land on a deserted alien planet?
"The Monster Loved by King Alisma": The king of a small country who has no merit except mathematical talent has built a huge empire based on calculations. How exactly did he do it?
"Starport Controller": The task of representing humanity's communication with alien civilizations has fallen on the head of a remote star controller. However, our alien friends seem to have had some misunderstanding...
"Man's Right to The Machine: On Whether Machinery Has the Right to Love": If you want to get rights, you must first take responsibility. This is true of humans, and so is AI.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Reality
Veteran New Cop
Zhuo Mu was idle
Introduction: Except for a temporary identity certificate without a photo, no other valid documents, and can not contact the old troops casually, and even the hukou does not know where it hangs, they can not find it on the Internet. And once a person is suspected, there are doubts everywhere, whether it is telling the truth or lying, if it cannot be verified in a short period of time, it is a lie in the eyes of others. I never thought of transferring back, but I was transferred back in a daze, and Dan was in such a hurry...
I didn't want to take off my military uniform when I retired from the army, I never had the luxury of becoming a policeman, I put on a police uniform, and I made up my mind to take root in the border and hold the door of the country, but I was transferred back to my hometown... Fate is so wonderful, and see Han Xin's wonderful life from olive green to dark blue!
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Fantasy
Pastoral Chronicles 1
House Pig
Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House
Introduction: The Heavenly Demon Sect Leader's wife Si Youyu assassinated the Sect Leader Li Tianxing on the wedding night, and after taking away the Zhen Sect Holy Scripture, he did not know the end, and the young ancestor who had been tracking down for many years came to the mysterious ruins, and by chance, he ushered in the Young Sect Leader Qin Mu, and the savage teenager raised by nine hermit masters embarked on an unknown journey. He was not afraid of others' contempt for the people abandoned by God, grew and transformed in the crisis, traversed Middle-earth and Western Soil, galloped in the grasslands and the heavens, fought against the gods of The Capital, broke through the fog of time and space, and composed a long song of pastoral heroes with his blood.
On the desolate ruins, darkness devours the flesh and blood of living beings. "Don't go out when it's dark", this is the ancestral motto of the Great Ruins.
Grandma Si and Ma Ye picked up a child from the Yongjiang River in the dark of night and named it Qin Mu. When the gears of fate quietly turned, the surface of the calm ruins of the dark tide surged, the Li River Sword Sect in southern Xinjiang was in hot pursuit, Yan Kangguo was eager to move, the general Qin Feiyue sneaked in and drew a map of the Yongjiang River, and the Heavenly Demon Sect Ancestor led three hundred and sixty hall masters to the door to "visit"...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Traversal
"I'm Not a Savage"
By Woe and 2
Introduction: Seeing that the probe was about to be completed, Yun Chuan looked up at the majestic Endless Kunlun Mountain, and then looked at the earth that had been broken by him, gritted his teeth, and held up the pickaxe and went down heavily.
"Boom"! The head of the pickaxe was planed on a huge drum, and a desolate drum sounded, and the pickaxe bounced high, breaking away from Yun Chuan's hand and brushing past his ear, and disappeared.
Yun Chuan didn't have time to rejoice, and found that his hands had been shaken into a blood mist by the visible sound waves. A tingling sensation reached his brain, and his body exploded into an even bigger blood mist.
Before his eyeballs turned to powder, he seemed to see that the snow-capped Kunlun Mountains had turned golden. There seems to be a majestic palace looming.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature Pure Love
"Mountains have wood" (all 2 volumes)
It's not night and day
Jinjiang Literature City
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
Introduction: Mountains without edges, winter thunder and earthquakes, heaven and earth together. When another year of spring comes, the snow and ice will melt, everything will eventually be buried deep in the ground, and the peach blossoms will still bloom. In the world of great strife, there is smoke everywhere.
In the thirty-seventh year of Jin Changle, Geng Yuan, a blind violinist who had been lurking in the enemy country for many years, single-handedly assassinated the four kingdoms in the alliance of the four nations, and the situation in the world changed accordingly. Since then, the name of "the world's first assassin" has been known to everyone.
After three years, two teenagers from extraordinary origins, Geng Shu and Jiang Heng, met in a chaotic world. They were the parents of the "World's First Assassin", and the other was concealed by Geng Yuan's wife. The flames of war, the destruction of families, the death of life and death. The legendary life of the two traveling from country to country, relying on each other, and regaining broken mountains and rivers began...
Every small and vivid life in the chaotic world is struggling to survive in the storm, and every benevolent person who has gone forward to protect his family and country is paying wisdom and effort to solve the suffering of the world and the idea of unity in the chaotic world.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Suspenseful detective
"Inspector General"
Written by Feng Yi Tianya
November 2021
Introduction: Case within case, in the middle of the game, twists and turns are bizarre but reasonable. Remember every detail, that will be the key to solving the case. Fengyi Kyushu enmity, the end of the world to fight the sword line. A police story, full IQ Online.
Translate fictional | The novel collection of the long form genre | science fiction
"Stars are cold toys"
[Russian] by Sergei Lukyanenko
Translated by Xiao Chuzhou
Eight Light Point Culture Nova Press
Introduction: For human beings, what does it mean to enter the sea of stars? Is it to move towards a vast and boundless future, or to become a pawn of a higher civilization?
Astronaut Peter struggled to find the place of human beings in the universe, he broke through the gentle cocoon of geometric civilization, through the illusory gates of shadow civilization, but found that freedom and order are traps.
The direction of civilization's progress is in the hands of one person, where is the way out? This flesh and blood body is the Achilles heel and the key to the rise of mankind...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature : Ancient Romance
"The eldest daughter of the concubine, she is beautiful and sassy"
A thousand birches fell
Red sleeves add incense
Introduction: In the past life, the Zhenguo Gongfu collapsed and disappeared. In this life, the eldest daughter, Bai Qingyan, was reborn in the first life, and would never let the Bai family follow in the footsteps of the previous life. The boy of the White Family is dead, and there is no place for the White Family to stand in the capital city? Xiao Rongyan, a wealthy merchant in the Great Wei Dynasty, said: The Bai family of the Gongfu of the Hundred-Year-Old Gate Town never produces waste, and the daughter's family is no exception.
afterward...... The big girl of the White Family is a generation of gods of war, and the myth of undefeated achievements. The second girl of the Bai family is the head of the house of the new noble Zhongyong Marquis of the Court. The third girl of the Bai family is the second richest businessman in the world, and the business leader who turns his hand to the cloud and covers his hand for the rain. Bai Qingyan thanked Xiao Rongyan for helping her several times in her previous life and secretly sent several messages.
Snowy night, blocked outside the city.
Xiao Rongyan: The white girl saved Xiao mou from water and fire three times or four times, is she happy with Xiao Mou?
Bai Qingyan: Xiao Gongzi misunderstood.
Xiao Rongyan: Xiao Mou saved the white girl from water and fire three or four times, can the white girl please Xiao Mou?
Chinese fictional | Short and medium-sized novellas | science fiction
The Eye of Seshteng: The Winning Portfolio of the 4th Cold Lake Science Fiction Literature Awards
Eight Light Points Culture Editor
Sichuan Science and Technology Press
Introduction: "The Eye of Seshten: The Winning Portfolio of the Fourth Cold Lake Science Fiction Literature Award" carefully selects 9 fine works from 18 million words of submissions, and uses nine brain-opening science fiction stories to take readers to appreciate the cruelty and romance of the universe. The title of the collection, "The Eye of Seshten", is also included in the title of one of the award-winning works created by Vientiane Feng Nian.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Sci-fi suspense
《Qiming》
Bamboo Feast
Changjiang Publishing House
Introduction: Xu Chengyue, who stayed at the school to become a lecturer after graduation, accidentally fell off the building after a teacher's meeting, suffered a serious brain injury, but then miraculously recovered, and was promoted to a young associate professor of the school shortly after returning to school.
In order to improve the AI detective system he presided over, Xu Chengyue joined the front-line criminal investigation team as a technician to accumulate "actual combat" experience, met Gu Yunfeng and others, and used his expertise to solve several difficult cases with everyone.
However, behind a seemingly unrelated case, he gradually discovers that he has another hidden plot for falling from the building, and he himself is the key pawn in the chess game. What shocked him even more was that he might not even be himself.
If the former Xu Chengyue woke up again, where would he go?
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature : Modern Romance
"The Princess Detective"
Wei Yu
Read some stories every day
Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Nominated judge: Liu Yihan
Introduction: When Shen Rubai, the goddess of warm and cute foodies in The capital, meets Chu Mingxuan, the cold and uninhibited prince of the dynasty, what kind of wonderful chemical reaction will occur? From mutual dislike to joint efforts to crack the poisoning case of the children of the royal family, the death threat case of the favored eunuch, the bizarre death of the singer of the Apricot Blossom Pavilion, the serial murder case of the claustrophobic mountain house, etc., they have cut through thorns and thorns all the way, and even been imprisoned, until the bloody case that was unresolved ten years ago was released... Serial cases are staged one after another, and adventures and wisdom battles are endless. It's just that the case is solved, how can you still break yourself into a princess?!
Prince: "I've seen many girls, some of them are prettier than you, some are smarter than you, but none of them have you to eat." ”
Ru Bai: "Just like the princes of the past and the present, they have also had many women, but none of them will be a divine detective like me."
"Chasing the Murderer against the Sky"
Old Tam
Taiwan Straits Publishing House
Nominated judge: Zhang Ying
Introduction: "Chasing Murder in the Air" is divided into 2 volumes, the story begins with the shooting of a policeman, telling the male protagonist David Ye to switch identities freely in multiple parallel spaces, using time and space clues to hunt down serial murderers, find out the earth-shattering truth, and finally reverse the fate of suspense, reasoning, science fiction stories...
In 2019, David Ye, a criminal police officer at the Jiangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, was shot in an abandoned parking lot west of the city while tracking down his partner's killer. When I woke up, I found myself in another space, in 1997, not only arrested by the police, but also met my seventeen-year-old self...
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