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In February, it was shortlisted for the list of Chinese and foreign genre novels
"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 chinese and foreign genre novels shortlisted in February 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
Killer Robot Diaries Series (all 4 volumes)
By Martha Wells
Translated by Li Simin Adeline
Xinhua Pioneer Beijing United Publishing Company
February 2022
Nominated judge: Yao Haijun
Synopsis: The Killer Robot Diaries Series (all 4 volumes) is a collection of four works by World Science Fiction Award-winning Grand Slam author Martha Saviars.
Alien Crisis: "As a ruthless killing machine, I was a complete loser. A team of researchers with very different personalities, a self-described "killer robot" of AI, is trying to demystify the unknown planet. From the loss risk assessment report to the missing map content, the road to the expedition is difficult and tortuous. However, both groups of investigators disappeared, causing the expedition team to fall into great panic and uneasiness. The fog has not yet dissipated, the bottom of the pit explosion, monster attack, data tampering and other dangers follow, an invisible hand strangled the throat of everyone's fate. As a killer robot with a human only employment relationship, how to break the game?
Artificial Conditions: The reason I call myself a "killer robot" is because about 35,000 hours ago, I went on a rampage while on a mission and killed dozens of humans. But I myself have a vague impression of this. In order to find the truth of the Holocaust, I disguised myself as an augmented human, stepped on the research ship "Art", and returned to the scene of the accident. However, old problems have not been solved, and new dangers have followed. My employers were assassinated one after another. While trying to protect them, I gradually realized that something in my brain was changing, and I didn't know if it was good or bad...
"Emergency Rescue": The "Gray Cry" company seeks wealth and kills, but because of the lack of key evidence, the lawsuit is difficult. Of course, this is a headache for humans, and it has nothing to do with me as a killer robot. But it was clear that once I started caring for humanity, I couldn't stop. In search of clues, I went to Milu, met an evaluation team, and met the pet robot Miki. Immediately after, we were attacked by battle robots, life and death, I don't know if I will be able to go back alive to continue watching my new drama...
Evacuation Strategy: As a killer robot, maybe I need to calm down and not always be distracted by human affairs. But Dr. Mansa was in danger. In search of evidence to bring down the BlackHeart and rescue Dr. Mansa, I roamed almost every corner of the galaxy. This journey is not thrilling, I don't want to be dismantled into parts, after all, I just secretly downloaded a lot of new dramas...
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | Suspenseful reasoning
"The Rut of Sin"
By Hideo Okuda
Translated by Tan Yuanyuan
99 Readers, People's Literature Publishing House
January 2022
Nominated judge: Xu Chenliang
Description: In the summer of 1963, a young Hokkaido man who had nothing, Kenzo Uno, crossed the sea in a small boat from Rebun Island to Tokyo, and was involved in a series of cases such as the theft of watchmakers, the kidnapping of a boy in a tofu shop, and the murder of a dancer. From the top level of the Metropolitan Police Department to the major media, and even gangsters, low-level workers, immigrants, leftists, etc. have been inextricably linked to him. Hundreds of criminal police officers thoroughly investigated the flower street Willow Lane, resort hotels, passenger railways, sea ferries... In the nation's attention-grabbing search operation, a college student criminal police officer performed well, repeatedly accomplished miraculous feats, and finally launched a head-on confrontation with an elusive suspect.
This book is a new mystery novel by Hidehiro Okuda. The author portrays the dramatic changes and subtle conflicts of various strata of Japanese society in the mid-1960s with a broad perspective. Under the wheels of the times rolling forward, a young man at the bottom of the social margins walked through a lonely, wandering, idle, and dangerous life of death in just three months; another young man judged the situation, continued to make progress, and kept up with the rhythm of the times to witness the "change in self-consciousness" that was taking place throughout Japan before the opening of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. The contrast between the two destinies is stark; the boundary between black and white is obscure.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature and History
"Little Cabinet Elder"
Written by the Master of the Three Precepts
The starting point Chinese the net
Nominated judge: Yang Chen
Introduction: "Xiao Ge Lao" tells the story of Zhao Hao's father and son who started from scratch in a desperate situation, the struggle and rise from scratch, and writes the refinement of Xiao Ge Lao who is dedicated to the people.
Standing in front of you are the guardian of the Ming Dynasty, the close comrade-in-arms of the Wanli Emperor, the good son of the first assistant of the cabinet, the richest man in the world in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the black hand behind the control of the bureaucracy for thirty years, the gravedigger of the clan system, the second Yan Shifan in the mouth of the Donglin Party, Zhang Juzheng shouting invincible; Hai Rui's confidant, Xu Wei's owner, Matteo Ricci's Shaving Man, Xu Guangqi and other six masters of the teaching of the master; Daming poetry fig leaf, more than 700 books of various disciplines, the inventor of more than 2,700 patents. The founder of modern universities and sciences; the patron saint of the Han chinese abroad, the pioneer of new shipping routes, the maintainer of the order of the oceans, the contractor of large-scale projects around the world; the culprit of the troubles of Europe, the righteous father of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the savior of Sebastian, and the old man of the small cabinet who is devoted to the people.
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | fantasy
The Last Sorcerer
[Spain] by Jose Antonio Fedeu
Translated by Zeng Zhuoqi
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
December 2021
Nominated Judge: Xia Lie
Description: London, 1871. The young Aurelius is caught up in the chores of a family hotel, believing that he will spend his life as inaction as his father. However, his fate will change in one morning: colorful posters spread over the sky announcing the arrival of the great magician Udan in London... From that moment on, he longed to stand in front of Udan and show himself as an apprentice. Thanks to his cleverness, he will soon be given the opportunity to enter the Udan dressing room and discover each other's biggest secrets there. Udan, the trickster, is a true magician, and his performance is not a trick. But this secret leads to another secret: magic is very dangerous, and there are forces in the world that can end magic and magicians.
Chinese fictional | Short story genre collection | black humor
How to Kill My Best Friend
Song Xiaojun said
China Friendship Publishing Company
Nominated judge: Xiao Jinghong
Description: A pair of good brothers are over seventy years old, one of them suffers from Alzheimer's disease, friends do not want to see the brother's soul imprisoned by the body and lose their dignity, decided to fulfill the agreement of their youth, try their best to end each other's lives; a small town girl who was enshrined by fans through live broadcasting, at the request of fans, constantly challenged the limit; a young man did not hesitate to sell his kidneys, steal his parents' coffin books, cheat his girlfriend's money, just to make a movie of his own, but he became part of the movie... Behind the jokes hide the complexity and absurdity of human nature, which is nonsensical and at the same time contains deep meaning, which makes people think deeply after reading.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Fantasy
"Monsters Killed to Die"
The yin heavens are hidden
Description: "Monsters Killed will die" constructs a fantasy world with love and justice as the core, the protagonist gains the ability due to adventure, goes to the top, saves the world, and then travels to other worlds that are about to be destroyed, changing the fate of countless worlds.
Those who are different from ordinary people are monsters. Born to be a super power, everywhere he goes, there is no difference between crushing bones and crushing cream biscuits. Too special, in fact, is not a good thing, in order to find the same kind in this seemingly ordinary world, Su Day has been running all the way to find for ten years, but he has found nothing... Until the sudden arrival of the Reiki revival, it opened a vast and vast curtain of the times for him.
Expecting change, expecting the extraordinary, Su Tian did not want to watch the world burn, but he longed for the world to become lively. Travel alone for thousands of miles, wander the worlds. The road is uneven, and the sword is drawn to help. Even in this world full of monsters, demons and countless demons, in this multiverse on the verge of shattering and on the eve of destruction, there is no need to retreat from fear, no need to be confused and confused, but still have a heart that desires justice and pursues the right.
After all, just like the man's well-known nonsense, 'If a man is killed, he will die'. Monsters that are killed will also die.
Chinese fictional | Genre novel collection | science fiction
"The Way Spring Comes"
Micro Image Culture Editor
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Nominated Judge: He Ping
Description: "The Way Spring Comes" is an international cooperation project of contemporary Chinese fantasy novels, micro-image culture, Shanghai literature and art, Tor strong cooperation, the English version of The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories overseas synchronous launch, authors, editors, translators, designers for the all-female creator lineup, Yu Chen, Wang Kanyu, Lindsey Hall, Ruoxi Chen, Zhang Yiwen, Jin Xueni jointly edited and planned, The collection of 17 novellas by 15 representative writers of science fiction and fantasy is a wonderful appearance of Chinese fantasy literature "going out" in recent years.
The pan-fantasy novels included in this book are diverse in style: one is quite oriental and ancient elements, such as "Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Taiji Taro Mud" reconstructs the time travel of the traditional literati Zhang Dai, "The Way Spring Comes" recounts the ancient mythological stories of the Chinese nation, "Deyu" dezhiwei novel Shen Yun, "WudeDu Robbery" from the animal cultivation series, "Ying Long" can be regarded as a new story compilation; one type throws the imagination into a broader time and space, such as "The Formula of Balance" is a magnificent epic on the cosmic scale about the evolution of species and the rise and fall of civilization, "Baby Baby I Love You" is based on the development of a holographic parent-child game "Raising a Baby" to explore the nature of parent-child love, "The Secret of The Mountain and the Name" tells the story of traditional folk rituals, while the algorithm of the mountain is hidden in the family tree and sung from generation to generation; a more textual experimental nature, such as "The Woman Carrying the Corpse" tells absurd allegories, "Blackbird" has a distinct magic realism style... Finally, Shi Jingyuan's paper "Gender Construction and the Future of Chinese Science Fiction" is used as a postscript to analyze the gender issues of contemporary science fiction and trigger our thinking on broader issues such as the state of science and technology in our time.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | fantasy
"Wild Butterfly"
A husband and wife
Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore
Nominated judge: Liu Yihan
Introduction: "Wild Butterfly" is divided into two volumes. The first volume takes place in the Republic of China, and an old man tells a legendary story in the third person: Zhao Guangling is the owner of a Jindu antique shop, this person is proficient in porcelain, handsome in appearance, and also has a good temperament. He had an enamel three-butterfly cup in his hand. In the process of interacting with a woman, the woman had an accident and died, and he inadvertently found that a colored butterfly on the cup had turned black. This gave him a wild thought: if the other two colored butterflies also turned black, he would have a unique treasure. In order to realize this wish, Zhao Guangling began to think about whether the death of the woman who was related to him could make the butterfly on the cup turn black. To this end, he began to purposefully contact women and implement plans, but the end was a great tragedy. The butterfly on the cup eventually disappeared, leaving only a white glazed cup.
The next volume of the novel takes place around 2000, and the protagonist "I" tells his story: "I" bought this Yongzheng white glaze cup from the old man, and two accidents occurred in succession, "I" hallucinated, and saw a color butterfly drawn with enamel on the white glaze cup. "I" was in the dilemma of reality, and then thought of the rumors told by the old man, fell into panic and uneasiness, and finally could not extricate myself in the madness, but finally became an enlightened person.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | history
The New Book
By The New Number in July
Nominated judge: Wang Xiang
Synopsis: The New Book is a story about the sons of the Crossers vs. Planes. A young man named Fifth Lun, a new student at the end of the new dynasty, he witnessed the failure of Wang Mang's reform system, the chaos in the world, the red eyebrows and green forest banners held high, liu Xiu brothers aimed at the process of restoring the Han Dynasty, but in the midst of the turmoil, they were pushed by the tide of the times and embarked on the road of reorganizing the rivers and mountains. When born again in such an era, what? The new room is decayed, not broken, not standing, only those who come, a large pen of books.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | science fiction
"Summer of Different Times"
Jia Xi
Eight Light Point Culture Nova Press
Nominated judge: Zhang Ying
Description: Mysterious creatures from other worlds, giving people dreams and killing people. Only by standing between two worlds can we see our destiny clearly.
Why did the mother keep hiding her father's whereabouts? Why is my cousin always missing? Countless nights, Zhao Qiushuang was like a bird waiting to break the window - wanting to fly to a coastal town in Fujian. But little did she know that what awaited her was nothing more than pure friendship and a fatal crisis.
Top-secret projects are re-initiated, mysterious creatures emerge, and the fates of two generations are frantically intertwined. After all, human beings have to face all the unknowns.
"Heliconia 3 Winter"
Brian M. W. Aldis
Translated by Hualong
Baguangfen Culture and 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...
Helikonia entered the late autumn, and on the northern continent of Sibnar, Lutlin, the son of the guardian of the giant ship, survived the battlefield, and on the way back he became suspicious of his beliefs and institutions and fell into a desperate situation. The contradictions between the church and the government are on the verge of erupting, the power game is playing out everywhere, the shadow of fat death is hanging over the entire planet, and the extremely cold winter of mourning is coming...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Fantasy
"Futianshi"
Pure and traceless
Genesis Chinese Network
Introduction: In the Eastern Shenzhou, there are people who have established the Taoist system, there are sages who preach, there are princes who dominate one side of the kingdom, there are many strong forces, and the divine state has been in turmoil for thousands of years. At this time, a generation of Heavenly Pride Ye Qing Emperor and Eastern Phoenix Emperor turned out to be born, and the Eastern Divine State was unified. However, Emperor Ye Qing suddenly died violently, and all the statues in the world were destroyed, and they were removed from the world and became taboo. Since then, the Only Eastern Phoenix Emperor of Shenzhou has been honored.
Fifteen years later, Qingzhou City in the East China Sea, a teenager named Ye Futian, began his legendary path...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Suspenseful reasoning
"Stealing Life"
Small meals
Zhijiang Culture, Zhejiang People's Publishing House
Description: Ah Fang, an employee of Shanghai Menghui Bar, was killed and Menghui was set on fire. Ah Fang is "my" aunt. On the night of the murder, "I" escaped all surveillance, carrying two cans of gasoline and carrying a knife to Find Ah Fang, ready to kill her. But when I really met and talked to Ah Fang, I no longer wanted to kill people, so I gave up committing the crime and left the scene. But not long after, Menghui caught fire and Ah Fang was killed. Who is the real culprit?
"I" inadvertently recognized the figure of my uncle on the surveillance photo held by Officer Liu, and began to cooperate with Officer Liu to "solve the case". There were four suspects, and "I" was one of them. And between "I" and other suspects, "I" and Ah Fang, and other suspects and Ah Fang, there are intricate stories that have to be told.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Immortals
"I Can't Be a Sword God"
Pei couldn't hold on
Introduction: "I can't be a sword god" tells the story of li chu, a scholar, who unconsciously possessed super strength after becoming a monster spawner, and was forced to embark on the road of the sword god in the undercurrent of Yuhang Town.
Li Chu crossed over to Shilipo and became a small Taoist priest. In this world where gods and demons are rampant, he was weak and helpless, and he wanted to live a lifetime in Shilipo. Until one day he had to step into the jianghu, he found out... It turns out that there is nothing in the world that cannot be solved by a single sword. If there is, then two swords.
Infinite Loop
Wen Jiu was soft
China Workers Publishing House
Synopsis: The story begins with a catastrophe in which survivors who escape on a shuttle think this is the last moment on Earth. They were forced to land on a strange planet with no grass, Li Microstar, where the life experience of human society was completely zeroed out, along with the vast history and data lost.
The high-level "game" player Yuan Lai took the "virtual world" of one living color after another as a breakthrough, followed the clues, and discovered the truth. Just when she thought she had explored the mysteries of time and space and reversed her fate, a new round of crisis was brewing...
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature and Reality
The Road to Investment Banking
Snow on the moon
People's Literature Publishing House
Introduction: Rumors of investment banks, doing the "investigation" work that makes the proposed listed company feel frightened, takes a coveted millions of annual salaries, knows the senior management of large enterprises, and travels are also five-star hotels and first class of aircraft. What is the reality?
The content of this book involves more than 7,000 listed companies and 11 core industries, including pharmaceutical and biological, national defense and military industry, traditional manufacturing, smart cities, mobile communications, Internet of Things, cloud computing... The author's personal experience, adapted from real cases.
Investment banks play a pivotal role in the whole life cycle of incubation, development, stability and decline. Young people who embark on the road of investment banking need to have what kind of workplace emotional intelligence to face the four core contradictions of the modern workplace: 1. radical and conservative in their careers; 2. stability and risk-taking in urban life; 3. stagnation and growth of thinking and cognition; 4. Game and supplement of ability and platform.
The book takes the common personality of the financial industry as the main line, tells the story of the struggle of newcomers in the workplace, and at the same time, records the listing, refinancing, bond issuance, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring of leading enterprises in the core industry from the perspective of senior practitioners. Taking into account both story and knowledge, the workplace and the shopping mall are equally important, and it has been evaluated by many netizens as "a textbook for the financial workplace." ”
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | illation
"Painting Language Killing"
Written by Sand Yan
Chongqing Publishing House
Introduction: When the provincial bo exhibition "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", the basement found several chaotic real copying blood paintings, the murderer dropped the "big painter", and then the popular actress was found in the chen corpse park, and the blood of the blood painting was consistent with the DNA of the actress. Soon, the famous painting "Autumn JiTu of Yuzhuang" was dropped, and the suspect pointed to Qi Dongmin, a big man of the criminal and evil forces. When the police went all out to arrest Qi Dongmin, they received video of the trial sent by the "great painter" and a second blood painting , "Early Spring Drawings" from the "Great Painter" in the first place. On the one hand, the serial puzzle game of the "Great Painter" completes his puzzle step by step, on the other hand, Zuo Han, a calligraphy and painting expert hired by the police, and Luke, the captain of the criminal police, peels back the cocoon and goes deeper step by step...
Taking five famous paintings as clues, "Painting Language Killing" weaves many elements such as art, poetry, and five elements layer by layer, constantly reversing, and there are cases in the case. While solving puzzles and using your brain, while learning the knowledge of calligraphy and painting, and improving your artistic accomplishment, it is simply addictive to read!
In this book, there are art bigwigs outside the golden thread, there are funny social animal dailys that make people feel empathetic, there are students who are touchingly obsessed with artistic ideals, although they are murderous, the pages exude a full sense of humanity.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Online Literature : Ancient Romance
"The Little Lucky Girl of the Farmer"
Yu Yuzhu
Yunqi Academy
Introduction: "Little Lucky Girl of the Farmer" tells the story of the peasant girl leading her brothers and sisters-in-law to work hard to manage their lives and change the fate of the family.
The fourth brother of the Zhou family lost money in the gamble, his mother was seriously ill, and the casino people wanted to make Manbao pay off the debt. People in the village said that the Zhou family's baby knots were coming to an end, and the old lady also held the small hand full of treasure and cried. Man Bao held the system in his hands, and led his brothers and sisters-in-law to open up the land, plant land, plant medicinal herbs, and open shops...
As the days went by, the sisters-in-law began to worry about the marriage of the treasure. Man Bao smiled, "I have already thought about it for a long time, so I chose the bamboo horse Bai Shanbao that I beat from small to large." ”
"Fireworks in the World"
Aging
Wave-by-wave net
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Introduction: "Kuangshi Fireworks" is an excellent realistic theme novel that tells the history of Wenzhou's development and progress in the past 70 years since the founding of New China from a female perspective, is a funded project of Zhejiang Culture and Art Development Fund and a key support work of the China Writers Association, won the first prize of the first national online literature reality theme essay contest, and was shortlisted for the annual top ten influential IP of the third China Network "Internet Literature +" Conference. 2019 China's Top Ten Super Potential IP and 2019-2020 Online Literature IP Film and Television Drama Adaptation Potential Works.
Starting from 1949, this book takes the life of the heroine in the great era as the main line, showing the historical picture of the two sides of the Oujiang River since the founding of New China seventy years ago, as well as the political, economic, humanistic, terroir and emotional history of all classes and various characters at various historical stages in this magical land, which is a history of ups and downs, family history, and customs history that records personal destiny. It is also a condensed history of the fate and soul of the people after the founding of New China in the southeast, which profoundly reflects the great changes of the times since the founding of New China, tells the story of Wenzhou, and sings the praises of the people.
"Make-up"
Xizi was in love
Xiaoxiang College
Introduction: "Hypnotic" tells the story of the seven girls of the Ling family who suffered a family overthrow, threw an embroidery needle, picked up a sword, and took on family responsibilities through thorns and thorns, taking it as their duty to inherit and rejuvenate the country.
At the age of thirteen, Ling Hua beat the drum to complain to the emperor, and was willing to shave his body, pulling down the prince Taifu clan of the current dynasty, saving the entire Ling clan, and has since become famous in the capital. In the next three years, she reorganized the Ling family and firmly held the Ling family in her hands, and no one could shake it.
The good brother was distressed to dissolve the marriage contract, and after duanjing Marquis Yan was lightly drunk, he inserted a knife into the two ribs of the good brother, "Isn't it just a woman?" I marry! When he woke up drunk, he looked at the Ling painting that had found him, and his intestines were blue with regret—this woman, fortunately, he did not marry. But, in the end, he married...
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