The China Writers Online Book List | science fiction attention in the first quarter of 2022

The China Writers Online Book List | science fiction attention in the first quarter of 2022

Spring flowers are full of flowers, stars flow, with the light of spring, science fiction literature rides the wind and waves, and comes to the spring of science and technology and literature: the China Writers Association has established a science fiction literature committee; the Chinese Writers Association and the China Association for Science and Technology signed a strategic cooperation to pay more attention to, attach importance to and promote science fiction literature and culture. From the original science fiction novels published in the first quarter, China Writers Network has selected a list of books for readers. The science fiction star list launched by the Science Fiction Committee of the China Association of Science Popularization and Shuxiang Wenya launched the science fiction star list in the first quarter, such as "Bering Bridge Horizontal", "Intelligent Mask", "Heavenly Wind" and other new works, the authors include senior writers Galaxy, but also including the new generation of young writers Cheng Jingbo, Yang Wanqing, Diptera, etc., showing that science fiction literature from the sword is not old, to sustainable development, leafy, these works have a profound core, rich meaning, from the near future worries, to philosophical entanglement, diverse, changeable, multi-interesting, is using high-tech frontier dimensions, to enhance the power of literature itself. Children's literature writers Xie Changhua and Wang Jie's science fiction novels "Earth Brain Storm" and "Steam Nightingale" integrate the characteristics and qualities of youth literature into science fiction works, from the avant-garde depth of cyberpunk to the retro thrill of steampunk, in the imagination of the world, the pursuit of scientific and technological reflection and tranquility. Children's science fiction writer Zuo Wenping also launched the sixth "Thoreau Code" of the "Juvenile Wilderness Science Fiction Adventure Series", which integrates science fiction, reasoning and adventure, taking the growth of teenagers as the core line and conveying the positive energy of never giving up on self.

——Moderator: Yin Chao

"Bering Bridge Crossing"

Galaxy, published by Democracy and Construction Press, and produced by Shuxiang Wenya, February 2022

Generally speaking, the future in science fiction can be roughly divided into "near future" and "far future", in fact, "quasi-reality" is also an important part of science fiction literature. "Quasi-realistic" science fiction works set the scene in the present rather than the future, and describe a story that has not happened yet but can happen at any time within the framework of existing technological theories. Galaxy has always been obsessed with this kind of realistic science fiction, after all, science fiction not only means distant stars and the future, but also has the possibility of happening all around us. The short science fiction collection "Bering Bridge Horizontal" is mostly included in such works, which are based on the limited play of existing scientific facts. In this regard, "Poly-Iron Casting Error" and "Octopus" are very typical. The scientific and technological basis of "Poly Iron Casting Mistake" originates from the popular science masterpiece "Fatal Feast", the story is completely fictional, but the plot unfolds under logical reasoning, while outlining a campus style painting, the author leads the reader to uncover the truth hidden behind the illusion curtain layer by layer, step by step closer to the scientific truth, and gives a somewhat terrifying mystery at the end. "Octopus" tells a story that begins in ordinary research in an unhurried style, where mysterious events begin with artificial intelligence but end with the wisdom of others, and seemingly ordinary creatures are actually special links between human invention and other worlds. Similarly, "Hot Oak" focuses on the struggle between the two sides of the conflict in the field of pure mathematics; "Passing" describes the mysterious moon that may be hollow; "You Have Not Sunk" reconstructs history in a unique way, giving a very different but extremely realistic answer to the legendary lost continent of Atlantis, which is very different from previous speculations; "The Singing of the Grasshopper", "Bering Bridge Crossing", and "Tidal Roar like a Gun" show the author's strong love for engineering science fiction, while also showing the strength and grandeur of science and technology.

The Mask of Intelligence

Diptera, Democracy and Construction Press, produced by Shuxiang Wenya, February 2022

Diptera is a Ph.D. in philosophy from Chinese University, a research master's degree from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and an author of science fiction and speculative fiction. Her works have won many awards such as the 2008 Galaxy Awards Reader Nomination Award of Science Fiction World, the first prize of the 4th Douban Reading Essay Contest near future science fiction story group, and so on. Diptera collected six classic science fiction short stories "Pillar of Wisdom", "Bonsai Ghost and Suitor", "Ecological Ball in the Universe", "Miracle from Dr. Morrow Island", "Four Animals To Solve Cattle" and "Four Animals Mao Ying Rabbit" into a book, and named them "The Mask of Intelligence". Diptera is very good at integrating the narrative of "philosophical entanglement" into science fiction writing, just like "The Pot Ghost and the Suitor" tells that in the courtroom of the suitor, the intelligent artificial intelligence foot wash basin is tried and obtains the human rights of autonomous law... The story has a distinctly philosophical writing style. Another article, "Pillar of Wisdom", perfectly shows the grand beauty of the philosophical writing style, telling that after human beings have received predictions about the end, various characters have proposed different solutions: Aleph's "time crystal" that makes mankind stay in the eternal second before the end of the world; Punuma's "holographic world" smooths out the universe and re-enters the Book of Genesis...

"The Wind in the Sky"

Yang Wanqing, Democracy and Construction Publishing House, produced by Shuxiang Wenya, February 2022

Yang Wanqing is one of the representatives of the new forces of Chinese science fiction. He has published many novels on platforms such as Science Fiction World, Galactic Edge, and West. He has won the Future Science Fiction Master Award, Galaxy Award, Nebula Award, Lightyear Award, Cold Lake Award, Morning Star Award and other awards. Yang Wanqing's works have created many poetic science fiction works for readers with a unique science fiction temperament, a dense and rigorous scientific setting and a romantic and poetic aesthetic feeling. He has selected 7 short and medium-length science fiction works in many science fiction works - "Mai Lang", "Wind in the Sky", "Sin", "Doll's House", "Seed", "Love When the Earth Breaks the Sky" and "Anthropomorphic Algorithm", which are collected into a book. Among them, "The Wind in Heaven" tells the story of a terminally ill father who has a disagreement with his son over the issue of consciousness uploading. Through the description of the relationship between father and son, the discussion of life and death shows family affection and human nature, which makes the reader feel deeply. Yang Wanqing is obsessed with what Kant calls "starry sky" and "moral law", so the background of his works is mostly set in the near future world, focusing on the presentation of human nature under the impact of technology and the transformation of social paradigms.

"The People Who Move the World Sleep Here"

July, Democracy and Construction Press, Shuxiang Wenya, February 2022

Since July 2001, he has published science fiction and fantasy works, and is a winner of the Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Award and a popular science fiction writer, who has authored science fiction masterpieces such as "Stars" and "Silver End", fantasy masterpieces such as "The Famous Teacher" and "Mechanic's Notebook". In "The Man Who Lifted the World To Sleep Here", July carefully selected 7 short and medium-sized science fiction works "Harin Damm that Pry the World", "The Last Story about Suba", "Passing By", "Back Heaven", "Combined War", "Double Spin" and "Concussion". "July is good at using rigorous science fiction concepts to express novelty and surprise in science fiction creation, and shaping "hard" science fiction stories. Of course, its stories also show the care for human nature and the concern for the development of technology, such as "Double Spin", which won the Best Novella Award at the 31st Galaxy Awards, telling the story of the future society, where genetic modification technology is popular, and everyone's fate has been decided from the moment they are born...

The Seventh Possibility

Cheng Jingbo, Democracy and Construction Press, produced by Shuxiang Wenya, February 2022

Cheng Jingbo is a new generation of science fiction writers, who has published dozens of works such as "Upside Down Sky", "Piper and Ripper", "Dream Eater, Teenager Summer", "Star Circus" and so on. She has won many awards, including the Special Prize of the Chinese Youth Literature Grand Prix, the Gold Medal of the Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, the Gold Medal of the Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award for Short Stories, the Emerging Screenwriter of the Chinese International Screenwriting Festival, the First Prize of the Cold Lake Science Fiction Literature Award, etc., and her works have been translated into English, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages. This work contains her "Host", "The Seventh Possibility", "Western Heaven", "Thinking Like an Apple", "Winter Goes to the South", "Before the Fall" 6 wonderful science fiction works. "The Host" unfolds with the heroine Gu Xi and her party of four people going to the Cold Lake area to find her missing husband Zhou Yang as the main line, with a strong suspense, which continues the unknown truth until the end and firmly grasps the reader. "Hurry Before The Fall" fictionalizes a ghostly Sui Tang Luoyang City, and the white bones of giants are constantly dragging the city into eternal night. The whole story is full of strange and unpredictable situations, such as dreams and mysteries. Her work is full of creativity, logic and the eternal joys of human life.

"Mass Production Superman"

Chen Qian, Democracy and Construction Press, Shuxiang Wenya, February 2022

Chen Qian is a new generation of Chinese science fiction writers, who won the Fifth Global Chinese Science Fiction Literature Most Promising New Author Gold Award, and her works have appeared in magazines such as "Science Fiction King", "Science Fiction World", "Kyushu Fantasy" and other magazines, and have been selected into the "China Best Novel of the Year Anthology" for consecutive years, and have been adapted into comics and radio dramas for many times. "Mass Production Superman" brings together 10 science fiction works such as "Mass Production Superman", "Ten Years of Rapid Travel", "Prisoner of Memory", "Golden Window" and so on, focusing on artificial intelligence and future medicine. Among them, "Mass Production Superman" won the Silver Award for Best Novella at the 4th Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards, introducing Superman mass-produced by technology and team strength, imaginative and strange. In Prisoner of Memory, the ancient proposition of "who am I" is given a new meaning, and the process of finding my true self is also a thrilling adventure... The storyline is tortuous, the language is concise and humorous, and the strong theme is shown through small entry points, fresh and chic.

Brainstorm

Xie Changhua, produced by Bofeng Culture, Harbin Institute of Technology Press, March 2022

In the middle of the 23rd century AD, mankind entered the "era of earth-brain civilization" - that is, the era of national flight, and the life sciences were greatly developed, but space technology encountered a double bottleneck. As Earth's resources are nearly depleted, it is imperative to migrate to outer space and obtain resources. The United Nations secretly set up the "Brain Bank Extraction Division", which intends to scan the brain information of top scientists or scholars, and then use the "Earth Brain" database to superimpose and reorganize to promote the leap-forward development of science and technology. A game of life and death about whether scanning the human brain can be legalized, and then it unfolds violently...

This is a masterpiece focusing on the recent science fiction era, with both a grand and magnificent cosmology, a wild imagination, and no shortage of reflections on human civilization, morality and ethics. In terms of writing style, "Earth Brainstorm" adopts several clues to go hand in hand, constantly advancing forward, and setting up suspense with each other, complementing each other, making the whole big story appear suspenseful, making people feel unfinished in immersive reading.

"Earth Brainstorm" is not only a science fiction work, but also a profound philosophy. While depicting an ethereal, profound and magnificent future world, the author uses rich imagination and smooth writing to infiltrate profound humanistic thinking into the stories of fantastic ideas, so that readers can have a deeper reflection on themselves, life, family affection, life, human beings and the future in the process of covering up and meditating.

Zero Hour on the Planet of the Future

Zhang Wenwu, Zhejiang Education Press, March 2022

Future Planet Zero Is the sequel to the science fiction novel Future Planet 2049, the science fiction film that is filming, and the second part of the "Future Planet Trilogy". This work envisions the grand situation of Chinese astronauts and scientific and technological circles leading mars exploration around the centenary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and tells the story of China's heroic rise in adversity, leading the world to stubbornly resist aliens on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This book has a profound revelation of the nature of consciousness and the sublimation of human civilization, and the "disaster response project" plan promoted is full of profound meaning, and the character stories are fascinating. The author is a senior researcher at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, doctoral supervisor, and a scientist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has formed a laser and intelligent energy field manufacturing engineering team, so his works have the fine and focused of scientists, and are also full of hard-core scientific content and rigorous imagination.

Things to Have To Say: The Legendary Experience of An Alien Spokesperson

Shi Ruihua and Lin Zuoming, Beijing Times Chinese Literature Bureau, January 2022

This is a science fiction novel that explores the origin of human civilization. The author boldly imagines the earth and the place of human beings in the grand space of the universe, and believes that the origin and development of human civilization are due to the help of aliens. The author has been working in the field of aviation, and has also conducted extended research on the technological phenomenon of extraterrestrial civilizations.

In this work, what they want to express is: Is Earth really a lonely planet? Only love and peace are the answers.

The Thoreau Code

Zuo Wenping, CITIC Publishing House, January 2022

"The Thoreau Code" is the sixth part of the "Junior Wilderness Science Fiction Adventure Series" created by Zuo Wenping, the first five of which are "Wilderness Time and Space", "Gem Magic Mirror", "Monster Crisis", "Time Hunter", and "Black Hole Echo". This series of works is a set of children's novels that integrate science fiction, reasoning and adventure, with the growth of teenagers as the core, conveying the positive energy of never giving up on self. The Thoreau Code tells the story of three parallel earths in time and space, namely the human earth, the predator earth, and the white algae earth. According to predictions, a year later, the predator Earth will encounter a comet impact, and the microbial plague brought by the comet will bring about global extinction. Predator Earth proposed a comet transfer plan that altered the comet's orbit so that it avoided Predator Earth.

Steam Nightingale

Wang Jie, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, January 2022

"Steam Nightingale" is a novel of science fiction literature carefully brewed by children's literature writer Wang Jie, and is one of the "New Era and New Growth" series of Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, depicting human expectations and imaginations of steam science.

A giant flying monster with super destructive power appears in the city, and silent and powerful superheroes, high-tech equipment bounty hunters, and artificial intelligence machine guards take turns to appear, all trying to unravel the mystery behind this monster. Snow Monkey, a boy gifted with mechanical inventions, obtains a notebook from his late grandfather, a watchmaker, and makes various steam equipment based on the design drawings in the notes, while gradually discovering the true identity of the mysterious flying monster... A hunt and battle that swept through the city began.

This is a story that explores the relationship between technology and humans. The rapid development of science and technology has brought about countless magical creations, but at the same time, it is also unconsciously taming human beings. People are beginning to enjoy the convenience of science and technology, rather than facing the problems caused by the development of science and technology. In the wave of technology changing society, we should also make it clear that the key to distinguishing humans from machines is the courage to fight evil, the curiosity to constantly explore, and the compassion of the people.