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January 2022 Top Ten Chinese and Foreign Genre Novels Book List
"Searchlight Good Book" is hosted by Tencent Group + Reading Group, co-organized by QQ Reading, WeChat Reading, Tencent News, and undertaken by Searchlight Book Critics Association. According to the vote of 21 readers, 10 Chinese and foreign novels, 10 Chinese and foreign genre novels, and 15 Chinese and foreign humanities and social science books are evaluated every month. According to the reader's vote, the popular top 3 books in the 3 lists per month are rated.
We pay tribute to those good works that have "the beauty of literature, the truth of thought, the weight of history, attention to the present, elegant narrative, and beautiful expression", creativity, imagination, and exploration.
The following are the top ten Chinese and foreign genre novels 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 long genre | science fiction
The Phoenician Apocalypse
[English] Ian By M. Banks
Luo Cheng translation
Nova Press
January 2022
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Searchlight Good Book Judge | Yao Haijun (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction World)
The Phoenician Apocalypse is an "atypical" space utopian novel. Humans inhabit a vast man-made ring world, and intelligent machines are equal citizens of the "civilized" world, with different personalities and their own names, emotions, and proclivities. In this hedonistic world, technology grows in a vigorous and upward fashion, enough to solve all the worries of human beings, and the meaning of life is interesting rather than useful.
Banks is not only a science fiction writer, but also a mainstream literary writer, he entered the British literary world with "The Bee Catcher", and returned to science fiction with "Phoenician Apocalypse", creating a "civilization" declog that shocked the contemporary science fiction literary world. The philosophical and psychological background gives his writing a strong humanistic color; the ultimate trend of human evolution, the evolution trajectory of different deep space species, the structure and order of space society, and the language and writing of civilized races make this work a novel that goes hand in hand with a sense of coolness and speculation. In his works, Banksy proposes the possibility of technologies such as brain-computer interfaces, and constantly subverts technology and human value orientation. What is touching is that between intelligent machines and humans, there is a kind of bond between the intelligent machine and the human being, which makes the cold and boundless starry sky have a touch of warmth.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | legend
The Hermit Doctor
He is always there
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Xia Lie (Professor, Hangzhou Normal University)
He Changzai is a representative author of the current online literature realistic theme writing, such an author marks the interest, sensitivity and level of online literature to write about real life and realism. "Hermit Hui Doctor" focuses on and shows a set of traditional Chinese cultural cultivation, which takes Chinese medicine as the axis, implements and crosses the ideas about the humanity of heaven and earth and the sincerity of the great doctors, and through the love of Zheng Dao (The True Path) and Shen Xiangwei, in the environment of heavy profits of businessmen, he has reclaimed a road realm of "idealistic intersection, quiet travel and long-distance". The novel strives to realize the author's so-called "truth of thought" and "literary beauty" in the story structure of the two generations of sorrow and joy and love and hate, that is, to use traditional wisdom to integrate and solve the problems of real life, and to explore a way of expression that balances between classical meaning and current fashion.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Real Life
"The Reversal Couple"
Xiao Bei
Starting point girls' network
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Yang Chen (Editor-in-Chief of Reading Group)
"Reversed Couple" tells the story of a couple who re-examine their marital relationship due to different circumstances after the identity change. After changing her identity, the heroine transformed from a housewife into a career man, tasted the cool feeling of being the master of the house, realized the challenges and pressures of her husband's career, and also discovered the unknown warm side of her seemingly indifferent husband. At the same time, the male protagonist also encountered a series of shameful and funny events in the process of trying to do a good job as a housewife, from "women are really troublesome" to "women are really not easy", the male protagonist found that he had always been prejudiced against his wife's life, and re-acquainted with his wife and found her shining point. The couple's growing understanding of each other has given their relationships equality that they never had, their otherwise shaky marriages rebalanced, and all have grown.
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
Rhapsody of Lem is a collection of prefaces by Polish science fiction giant Lem on several "books that don't exist": teaching viral writing, to the history of computer writing, the book of extremely accurate predictions about the future... The words are witty, clever, and intelligent, interspersed with all kinds of out-of-the-box charts, dictionary samples, advertising pages, and the imagination is overwhelmed.
But the most shocking thing is the last "Clay Man XIV". Through the mouth of artificial intelligence, Lem ruthlessly breaks the ultimate reason for the stagnation of human development- anthropocentrism, which is always arrogantly whirled around in the circle of human thought. And the bright concepts of "wisdom", "civilization" and "higher creatures", and the capital that human beings are proud of, after being deconstructed one by one, there are evolutionary flaws everywhere. After reading it, it is like falling into an ice cave, and the sense of superiority above the sky disappears, and only the smallness and funnyness of human beings are felt.
Lem was undoubtedly a prophet, and only in this way could he look down on mankind so much and transcend his limitations.
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | Through
"My Lover"
Sun: Written by Takehiro Ueda
Translated by Wang Lan
Ueda is the winner of the 160th Wasagawa Prize for Japanese Literature in 2019. His works have always had the characteristics of a high degree of fusion of illusion and reality, such as nightmares and science fiction. Therefore, it is understandable to say that "My Lover" is a genre novel with science fiction implications. However, "My Lover" conveys a serious and grand spirit, the protagonist Yusuke Inoue has the memories and human designs of the third life, and his third life shows the three rounds of human "earth journey" since ancient times, and he also predicts that the fourth round of the earth journey has begun, and the protagonist will give way to artificial intelligence. If that were the case, the novel would be a little boring, but fortunately the author said that he wrote that he changed his original intentions and clinged to the theme of "my lover" - the protagonist of the novel has an open, unfinished model of the ideal "lover", and when Carol Hopkin appears, everything becomes richer and more interesting. Therefore, the novel can be described as a love myth spanning 100,000 years of time and space, and it is synchronized with a scientific allegory of human history and evolution.
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
The honey-like fantasy plot, the blade-like cold allegory, and the "O.Henry" ending are almost the secret of Roald Dahl's capture and intoxication of countless readers. The six-volume "Black Fairy Tale Series", except for "Strange Stories Collection", which is a collection of excellent "ghost stories" edited by writers, is his own life's work. His fairy tales are short, witty and humorous, and he is good at putting the tricks, deceptions, lusts, madness, horror and cruelty of the adult world into the sweet shell of a fairy tale perspective, hitting the absurd with unique sarcasm in dark strokes. It is conceivable that even if adults enter Roald's "world", they will not be boring and dense enough, and those psychological stimuli that are constantly reversed, prank-style narrowing and trickery, can often touch part of the essence of life.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Fantasy
Pastoral Chronicles 1
House Pig
The starting point Chinese the net
Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House
December 2021
Searchlight Good Book Judge | He Ping (Professor, Nanjing Normal University)
The new path opened up by Oriental Fantasy highlights the network nature of online literature, and can also be regarded as an important contribution of online literature to Chinese genre novels. In recent years, the completion of the house pig "Pastoral God" coincided with the reality theme squeezing the inherent territory of fantasy, and the fantasy novel was not as good as the previous gods. Therefore, "Pastoral God" has a different significance for balancing the ecology of online literature.
Similar to the general Oriental fantasy, "The Book of the Pastoral Gods" is rooted in the soil of Chinese Confucian and Taoist interpretation and weaves a novel cultural map, and uses this to distinguish the identities of the novel characters and unfold the plot and conflict of the novel. The novel uses Qin Mu's growth to advance the world setting, the flow of edge/center, lower/upper layer, and creates a new map of the fantasy novel. It is worth noting that, as the title of the novel "Shepherd God" understands "God for human use", "Shepherd God" provides value support for the transformation of many characters in the novel.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Reality
Veteran New Cop
Zhuo Mu was idle
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Xiao Jinghong (Vice President of the Institute of Online Literature of the China Writers Association)
In the field of online literary creation, Zhuo Muxian, who is obsessed with realistic themes, has opened up a unique path to success. He went from "Officer Han" and "Chaoyang Police" all the way to "Veteran New Police", which made us harvest a series of surprises. Under the consistently high-level narrative of "Veterans and New Policemen", Zhuo Muxian describes the psychological activities of the characters in a beautiful way. Han Xin, the protagonist who did not want to retire but took off his military uniform, did not want to be a policeman, and wanted to garrison the border but was transferred back to his hometown in the interior, from a veteran to a new policeman, drew a new era of youth blooming. Between the lines of plain and simple words, it is full of dense texture of life, conveying the creator's endless respect for olive green and dark blue.
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
In the short story collection "The Controller of Star Harbor", Kazumizu Ogawa uses his exquisite brushwork to depict five bizarre fantasy worlds. The five stories have different styles, novelty and highlights: "Road Soul" depicts the legendary life of a smart motorcycle in a full dialogue; "Golden Bread" makes a profound reflection on human war and estrangement from the perspective of a pilot who is forced to land on a remote planet; Nebula Award-winning "The Monster Loved by King Alisma" tells a strange story of "several lives and all things" in the tone of an allegorical fairy tale; "Starport Controller" describes the exchange between alien civilizations in a romantic and warm and humorous tone; "Man's Empowerment of Machinery : On Whether Machinery Has the Right to Love" explores in depth how AI can be integrated into human society from the perspective of responsibility and law. Each story in the book not only has ups and downs, fascinating plots, but also contains the author's unique thinking and profound insights into the future of mankind, so that readers can't help but think deeply after enjoying the invigorating reading.
Ogawa Kazumizu's creation has one of the biggest characteristics: while constructing the future world with rigorous scientific settings, he always does not forget to give a touch of warmth to his stories. No matter how harsh the reality and how desperate the characters in the story face, the reader can always see the word "hope" between the lines – and this is perfectly reflected in this book.
Kazumizu Ogawa tells us in his story that even in the cold and ruthless universe, as long as there is love, human beings can still create a beautiful and bright future.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Sci-fi suspense
"Chasing the Murderer against the Sky"
Old Tam
Taiwan Straits Publishing House
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Liu Yihan (Reading Promoter, Former Media Person)
Parallel space, wormholes, quantum entanglement, space-time travel, dimensions, AI, time-space fighting... As early as July 2019, "Chasing The Murderer against the Sky", serialized in the Lianpeng Ghost Story Section of Tianya Community, collects the suspense and reasoning genre elements of science fiction themes and criminal investigation themes, telling the story of David Ye, who is a policeman, who accidentally travels through different time and space in the past and future in an operation, overcomes many dangers and difficulties in the process of pursuing the murderer, and finally solves a series of mysteries and reveals the story of the truth hidden for 27 years.
Reading this work, readers may not help but smile - it may remind readers of the Korean hit TV series "Signal" in previous years, as well as some classic science fiction and suspense movies, such as "Butterfly Effect" and "Source Code". In addition, as a local type of online literature, "Chasing The Murder against the Sky" adopts a multi-line narrative while basically maintaining logical self-consistency and compact rhythm, which is also worth a sneak peek of fans who like science fiction and detective.
In January, the popularity list of Chinese and foreign genre novels was top 3
Top 1 "Chasing The Murderer Against the Sky"
Top2 "Detective Princess"
Wei Yu
Read some stories every day
Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
November 2021
Top 3 Phoenician Revelation
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