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April Chinese and foreign genre novel 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 April 2022, in no particular order.
Thanks to the authors, translators, editors-in-charge, and producers and publishers of these works.
Chinese fictional | Genre novel collection | science fiction
Unnamed Link: Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Metaversal Science Fiction
Han Song, Liu Cixin, etc
Liu Weijia Editor-in-Chief
Eight Light Point Culture Nova Press
April 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Yao Haijun (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction World)
The "metaverse" has been extremely popular in the past year, and it is an extremely rare science fiction concept that is completely out of the circle and popular all over the world. But what exactly is the metaverse?
Reading science fiction novels with metaverse themes is probably the most intuitive and graphic way to understand the metaverse. "Anonymous Link: Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Metaverse Science Fiction" collects a number of the most representative science fiction novels with metaverse themes in China since entering the era of interconnection, showing readers the strong imagination of Chinese science fiction writers for the metaverse and their narrative adventure of exploring the all-round boundaries of the metacosm with wonderful and ups and downs. These fourteen science fiction novels vividly depict what the metaverse looks like, tell what happens in the metaverse, and deeply explore the problems of the metaverse and the impact on the real world, outlining the vivid and perceptible "metaverse" all-round three-dimensional appearance and ecology for readers. This metaverse science fiction masterpiece selection can be described as a unique forward-looking display of science fiction.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Immortals
"Flood Related Households"
Breeze Trail Boy
The starting point Chinese the net
March 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Wang Xiang (Critic, Researcher of Lu Xun Academy of Literature)
Since the "Journey to the West" and "Fengshen List Of Interpretations", the genealogy of Chinese mythology has gradually taken shape, and in the era of online novels, the authors of "Honghuangliu" have their own intentions and recreated the genealogy of Chinese mythology. In "Honghuang Relationship Household", an ordinary person crossed to the Honghuang World, in order to protect himself, constantly established relations with the Honghuang Great God, and then relied on the humanistic knowledge of later generations to "guide" the great gods to cultivate enlightenment, gradually affecting the situation in the Immortal World and laying out a different battle of the gods. The work is combed in the genealogy of Chinese mythology, the reengineering of character disposition, the organization of the storyline, the magic weapon magic interpretation in many aspects, self-lyrical, unique scenery, and the style of writing is relaxed, the plot development is smooth, and it is very impressive.
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | Western fantasy
The Hobbit: Illustrated Illustrated Notebook
[English] by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wu Gang Translated by Huang Liyuan
Century Wenjing, Shanghai People's Publishing House
April 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Xiao Jinghong (Vice President of the Network Literature Research Institute of the China Writers Association)
The British literary hero J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is almost a household name as an important epic of world literature. And Tolkien research expert Douglas M. A. Anderson, who won the 1990 Mythical Creation Society Award for "The Hobbit: Illustrated Illustrated Editions," is now a way for Chinese readers to savor the extraordinary charm of the "Hobbits" through this illustrated illustrated annotated translation. As the book's introduction puts it, this is "a key into the world of Tolkien's life and creation." Douglas M. A. Anderson makes hundreds of nuanced annotations to the novel, microscopically presenting the unknown "world behind the scenes" of the original book. It is not so much an "extension" of The Hobbit as it is "this one" with a different hole.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature and History
《Brocade》
Go up the hill and beat the tiger on the forehead
The starting point Chinese the net
April 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Yang Chen (Editor-in-Chief of Reading Group)
Detached from the heaviness of history, the author uses witty brushwork and magical brain holes to tell the story of the protagonist who came to the apocalypse year, began to become the son of a sinner, a down-and-out Jinyi guard, and used the knowledge of the future generations to make up for his life and save himself and his father.
The character portrayal of the work is memorable, and the history is also very professional, and there is a delicate description of the background of the era in the late Ming Dynasty. The work portrays a small person who gradually rises from the bottom, as the son of a sinner, but he has the feelings of his homeland and the world, and in order to assist the Son of Heaven in guarding the Daming River, he puts what he has learned into the society, injecting new vitality and hope into the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Web Literature and Science Fiction
"We Live in Nanjing"
Tianrui said
The starting point Chinese the net
March 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Wang Xiang (Critic, Researcher of Lu Xun Academy of Literature)
Tianrui Shuofu is a striking new sharp in the Chinese science fiction literary circle, and the new work "We Live in Nanjing" has attracted wide attention. Bai Yang, a young man in Nanjing and a radio enthusiast, was connected with the girl Banxia twenty years later through an old radio station— when humans had been exterminated by extraterrestrial life for a long time, and Banxia was the only known surviving human being, and they discussed ways to save mankind. Since this special radio connection can only be carried out in Poplar's home- this is the headquarters of the major operation to save mankind, several ordinary people speak the language of the city in the ordinary residential building of Nanjing City, live the life of a small citizen in the city, while planning and implementing the secret task of defeating the alien intelligent life of the extermination of human beings on earth, countless key departments work hard with them as the core, and this story form opens a secret channel for ordinary people to intervene in the major event of "saving mankind", which is inexplicably gratifying.
They sent the plans, communication equipment, nuclear bombs and their keys that ordinary people can execute to twenty years later through the time capsule, and the task of destroying extraterrestrial life was carried out by the half-summer adventure, a process involving countless clues to the development of science and technology, so was the ultimate goal of saving mankind achieved? I don't know. Readers continue to argue around this suspense, and regurgitate all the story lines, all the scientific logic, which stretches the work of 400,000 words infinitely until it fills people's spiritual world.
The work uses words full of life texture to guide ordinary people into the world full of science and technology trees, and the logic of science and technology is intertwined with human sophistication, allowing readers to easily decode the difficulties of scientific thinking, which is full of suspense and presents the joy of ordinary people's lives.
Chinese fictional | Short story genre | suspense
Wisdom Teeth
By Remy
Huazhang Fanren Chongqing Publishing House
April 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Liu Yihan (Reading Promoter, Former Media Person)
"Wisdom Teeth" is the latest collection of short reasoning and suspense novels by the well-known suspense writer Remy, which contains 8 short stories. These 8 stories all explore the boundaries of good and evil, presenting the complexity and subtlety of human nature and human hearts. "Jiao Yang" tells a story of revenge, the plot is interlocking, suspenseful, in the dark, seemingly unrelated several people are linked by the original single revenge event, coincidentally triggered a series of criminal incidents, almost no one is innocent; in "Wisdom Teeth", the wounds left by the elderly police officer who lost the most important person in his life could not be healed, and finally chose to forgive, but the helpless hand of fate was repaid with death, and the young police officer involved in the investigation of the case completed his growth and transformation; The Ashes of shadows and "Triangle Relationship" tell the tragedy caused by "jealousy" and "possession" in the relationship between men and women; "Becoming Wang Yunping" is an embarrassing revenge story; "The Secret of Glory Street" and "Dimples" are far more than "suspense", more like absurd and satirical novels; the death of the protagonist of "Wang Baotuo" is evidence that "human emotions are not connected". Remy's novel plot is always full of suspense, cleverly conceived, the characters are delicate and full of emotions, and they will not disappoint, go read it.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | history
"Six Feet of Solitude"
By Wang Xiaofu
Writers Press
April 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Xia Lie (Professor, Hangzhou Normal University)
Some books will have the temperament of "strange books", probably because of the writer: first, there is a style of carving at the text level, and the other is to have a sense of the character story in the book, that is, the heaven and earth Behind it. Although "Six Feet of Solitude" can also be classified as a genre of fiction such as history or espionage, it is far beyond small attempts, referring to an earth-shaking pale, anthropological induction and axiological choice of good and evil.
"A piece of soil has not dried, and six feet of lonely ho to trust?" The source of the title of the book refers to a fatherless orphan who has to undertake the mission entrusted by history and the times. The novel is mainly about the courageous choice and extraordinary performance of the orphan of the chairman of the Soviet government of the Ouyue region in 1929 when faced with the decision of his own destiny in 1949. Its narrative structure is to constantly return and intersperse the timeline, go back to the beginning and end of the red storm in 1929, and interpret the constant changes in the situation in 1949 backwards, which not only reflects the complexity of the narrative, but also expresses a regret about the irreversibility of life and history, and infinite mourning and regret for the disappearance of beautiful life. Interestingly, the characters in the book do not have specific names, and the appearances are symbols, such as the Big Blue Leader, the Fourth Young Master, the Orange Girl, the Sage Hu ren... This treatment increases the "strange book" atmosphere of the novel, and is also the manifestation of the author's unique understanding.
Translate fictional | Novels in the long genre | science fiction
Doctor Who: Engine of War
By George Mann
Translated by Song Yawen
Eight Light Point Culture Nova Press
March 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Yao Haijun (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction World)
The protagonist of the Doctor Who series of novels is a Chitose alien who calls himself "Doctor" and pilots the spaceship "Tardis", which is shaped like a blue police telephone booth, travels through time and space, explores the universe, maintains peace, and saves the world. Doctor Who: Engines of War revolves around an untold and tragic battle during the Time Wars, telling a tragic story of a stilted vengeance.
The novel is full of dramatic tension and the plot twists and turns. The author's Ph.D. is not afraid of power and resourceful. In order to investigate the conspiracy of his old enemy, Dalek, he did not hesitate to take the risk and go deep into the enemy camp to spy on intelligence; in order to save more than a dozen human colony planets, he preferred to betray his own race and do justice on his own. In addition to this, the author also created a rather brilliant female companion character. She was brave and selfless, yearning for freedom, and stepped forward in the final crisis, sacrificing her life to save the entire universe. The work fully reveals the cruelty of war and the beauty of peace.
Chinese fiction | | novel Ancient romance
"Spring Mountain" (all 3 volumes)
A thousand weights
Yunqi Academy
Chinese World, Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
April 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Xiao Jinghong (Vice President of the Network Literature Research Institute of the China Writers Association)
In the ancient romance novel "Spring Mountain", the online writer Yi Qianshi laid out a picture of the world style of a famous and prestigious family. The narrative is retracted and relaxed, the language is fluent and free, the writing scenes are appropriate, the human feelings are sophisticated, and the narrative techniques of the ancient style highlight the distinct personality style. The author skillfully uses the creation techniques of network literature, with positive values and reasonable logic; the conflict and collision of ancient and modern concepts build a strong driving force for the evolution of the plot, highlight advanced ideological concepts in traditional cultural scenes, and reflect the contemporary value of ancient chinese works of network literature.
Chinese fictional | Novels in the long genre | Internet Literature Traversal
"Into What System"
Seven handsome men
Sina Weibo
Boji Tianjuan, Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
March 2022
BOOK REVIEW
Searchlight Good Book Judge | Xia Lie (Professor, Hangzhou Normal University)
The brain holes and play terriers of the Seven Handsome Novels have always been popular with the new generation of readers. "Into What Body" breaks the mold and tells an atypical "wearing a book" story. The author sets up a nesting doll-wearing book-style world view, the emotional line and the power line are intertwined, of which the information difference layout of "each character is in the next few layers, each character's world view, and each character does not know each other in the next few layers" is very clever, and the group portrait exploration and time and space reversal of the multi-narrative line make the reader refreshed, which can be described as creating a unique and unique style of traveling through the universe, highlighting the author's consistent imagination.
In addition, the story embodies a light-hearted and witty collision of ancient and modern, "Your Majesty, How are you?" Anti-traditional lines such as "Is there a hot pot" are widely discussed by readers, which increases the personality and freshness of the current online literary works. As a "contemporary social animal", the heroine of the book, Yu Wanyin, has realized her own growth after experiencing an atypical book-wearing life, which is a kind of realistic thinking of the author, that is, the landing of online novels after the imagination.
In April, the popularity of Chinese and foreign genre novels was top 3
1
"Six Feet of Solitude"
By Wang Xiaofu
Writers Press
April 2022
2
Unnamed Link: Selected Masterpieces of Chinese Metaversal Science Fiction
Han Song, Liu Cixin, etc
Liu Weijia Editor-in-Chief
Eight Light Point Culture Nova Press
April 2022
3
Thursday Reasoning Club
By Richard Osman
Translated by Zhang Yalin
Relay Press
April 2022
Duty Editor | Peter Pan
Duty Editor-in-Chief | Deng Siyi
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