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This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni.From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City', and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all fans of great fiction.Award winners, bestsellers, screenwriters, playwrights, philosophers, university lecturers and computer programmers, these thirteen writers represent the breadth of Chinese SF, from new to old: Gu Shi, Han Song, Hao Jingfang, Nian Yu, Wang Jinkang, Zhao Haihong, Tang Fei, Ma Boyong, Anna Wu, A Que, Bao Shu, Regina Kanyu Wang and Jiang Bo.

An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science fiction in a mediation on the theme of Exploration in Space. New, emerging, established and much-lauded writers from both cultures are brought together to demonstrate that technology and humanity when they work together bring challenges, joy and benefits to all of humankind. From Bao Shu comes 'A Trip to the End', from Allen Stroud 'The First', from He Xi 'Never Meet Again in Life', from Amdi Silvestri 'A Minuet of Corpses' and under the guiding eye of Patrick Parrinder (President of the H.G. Wells society) and Yao Haijun (celebrated editor of Science Fiction World in China) thirteen authors create a series of worlds which will enthral and entertain.

Ji Yuanyuan, a 13-year-old girl, was sent to a "e;potential activation summer camp"e;. The camp was in a completely closed military restricted zone. The seven members were students with certain special abilities, such as electromagnetic induction, quick mental calculation, and knowing people by smell, etc. The camp claimed that its purpose was to stimulate everyone's potential and learn the skills of other members. However, only Ji Yuanyuan had insight into the situation and knew that its real purpose was "e;real life Turing test"e; - searching for new Homo sapiens whose brains had been transformed among members. After a series of contacts and secret investigations with her partners, Ji Yuanyuan suddenly found that the new Homo sapiens was...

Ancient Shu is a long historical mythical novel written by Wang Jinkang. The author cleverly combined the bits and pieces of the ancient Shu civilization in ancient Chinese classics, the unearthed cultural relics from the Jinsha and Sanxingdui sites in Sichuan, and the Chinese Kunlun mythology to create a magical and real world of half humans and half gods. It has created a group of lifelike heroes, such as Bie Ling and E Ling, the king of Shu Kingdom Du Yu, the monarch of Ba Kingdom Lin Jun, a pair of fairy sisters Jinfeng and Suzaku, the head of a hundred gods, the Queen Mother of the West, the sun god Xihe, etc., taking the young readers to embark on a beautiful journey of fantasy.