Hao Jingfang

A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award–winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war…not between two factions in one nation, but two factions in one solar system: Mars and Earth. In an attempt to repair increasing tensions, the colonies of Mars send a group of young people to live on Earth to help reconcile humanity. But the group finds itself with no real home, no friends, and fractured allegiances as they struggle to find a sense of community and identity, trapped between two worlds. Fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Naomi Alderman’s The Power will fall in love with this novel about lost innocence, an uncertain future, and never feeling at home, no matter where you are in the universe. Translated by Ken Liu, bestselling author of The Paper Menagerie and translator of Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem, Vagabonds is the first novel from Hao Jingfang, the first Chinese woman to ever win the esteemed Hugo Award.

Vagabonds

Folding Beijing

Bao Shu

Wang Jinkang

Gu Shi

Han Song

Nian Yu

Zhao Haihong

Tang Fei

Ma Boyong

Anna Wu

A Que

Regina Kanyu Wang

Jiang Bo

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.

A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction

Sinopticon

A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award–winning author of Folding Beijing. 2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance. Tensions are high and the smallest disturbance in the status quo could set the world on fire. And a signal flickering through deep space could be just that spark. As three young scientists form an alliance to decode the signal, they realise that the answers don't only lie in deep space, they also lie deep in humanity's past. What they discover will change everything: our past, present and future. If we have one.

Jumpnauts

Vagabundos / Vagabonds

AD 2201: Earth and the colonies of Mars attempt a reconciliation after a century-long Cold War. Can two mutually antagonistic cultures forget the past and embrace the future?

Shortlisted for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award

Peking, in der Zukunft: Um den knapp bemessenen Raum möglichst effizient zu nutzen, wurde die Stadt in drei Sektoren unterteilt, die sich mittels einer raffinierten Konstruktion platzsparend drehen, in der Erde versenken und zusammenfalten lassen. Nach einem strengen Plan wird immer nur ein Sektor entfaltet, damit die Menschen darin ihren Tätigkeiten nachgehen können. Ein Kontakt über die Sektorengrenzen hinweg ist untersagt. Lao Dao, Arbeiter in einer Müllentsorgungsanlage im Dritten Sektor, übernimmt einen abenteuerlichen Botengang in die abgeschirmte Erste Zone – und entdeckt ein düsteres Geheimnis hinter den faltbaren Mauern dieser schönen neuen Welt. Mit ihrer beklemmenden Dystopie eines künftigen urbanen Lebens gewann Hao Jingfang 2016 den international renommierten Hugo Award für Science-Fiction in der Kategorie «Best Novelette».

Peking falten

A girl, trapped between two clashing worlds, must make sense of the past and face the future. The first novel from the Hugo Award-winning author of 'Folding Bejing', Hao Jingfang, translated by the Hugo Award-winning translator of The Three-Body Problem, Ken Liu. A century ago, the Martian colonies rebelled against the rule of Earth. Having declared an independent Martian Republic, the two planets evolved along separate trajectories, becoming two incompatible worlds vastly different in their scale, economy, socio-political system, and mostly importantly of all, ideals. Inhabitants of the two planets have come to view each other with suspicion and even hatred. Five years ago, with the apparent goal of reconciliation, the Martian government sent a group of students to Earth to study humanity's home planet and act as goodwill ambassadors from the Red Planet. Now the students have returned to Mars, accompanied by a group of prominent Earth delegates, to see if the two worlds can learn to co-exist in peace and friendship. Almost immediately, negotiations break down and old enmities erupt. Luoying, a gifted Martian dancer, finds herself caught in the crosscurrents of political intrigue and philosophical warfare. Martians and Terrans, artists and politicians, old friends and new mentors, classic books and revolutionary ideas - everyone and everything challenges her, pushing her to declare her allegiance. Attuned to the hopes and fears of both her native land and the world on which she came of age, Luoying must shoulder the burden of discovering the truth through the web of lies spun by both sides. She must chart a new course between history and the future that is coalescing around her. If she fails, everything she's ever loved will be destroyed.

Stray Skies

A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this “thoughtful debut” (Kirkus Reviews) from Hugo Award–winning author Hao Jingfang. This “masterful narrative” (Booklist, starred review) is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war…not between two factions in one nation, but two factions in one solar system: Mars and Earth. In an attempt to repair increasing tensions, the colonies of Mars send a group of young people to live on Earth to help reconcile humanity. But the group finds itself with no real home, no friends, and fractured allegiances as they struggle to find a sense of community and identity trapped between two worlds.

Liu Cixin

Qiufan Chen

Erzählungen - Mit einer bislang unveröffentlichten Story von Cixin Liu

Zerbrochene Sterne

Zwei Gesellschaften und eine große Frage: Wie wollen wir leben? 2096: Die Erde hat eine Kolonie auf dem Mars gegründet, um neuen Lebensraum zu erschließen. Doch die will unabhängig sein: Während die Mars-Bewohner den Raubtierkapitalismus der Erde verdammen, halten die Erdenmenschen den Roten Planeten für ein System unkontrollierter Alleinherrschaft. Zur Verständigung zwischen den Völkern sendet der Mars hundert Jahre später einige Jugendliche auf die Erde – darunter auch die kürzlich verwaiste Luoying, eine Enkelin des Mars-Machthabers. Ihr Bruder bleibt zurück. Fünf lange Jahre dauert es, bis die nun erwachsene Frau den loyalen und erfolgreichen Rudy in der roten Heimat wiedersieht. Die Weltenwanderin Luoying muss sich entscheiden: für oder gegen das starre System – mit möglicherweise tödlichen Konsequenzen nicht nur für sie selbst. Zwei Welten und ein großer Roman: die preisgekrönte Autorin aus China

Wandernde Himmel

Alastair Reynolds

Silvio Sosio

RIVISTA (192 pagine) - Alastair Reynolds - il premio Hugo di Hao Jingfang - Diego Lama - Ilaria Tuti - Samuele Nava - Manuel Piredda - Intervista con Alastair Reynolds - Futurians - Cory Doctorow Nei futuri immaginati dalla fantascienza, per ovvi motivi, saremo tutti più o meno americani. Ma forse le cose non andranno proprio così: forse la cultura dominante, tra un secolo o due, non sarà quella occidentale ma quella cinese. Non saremo lì per scoprirlo, intanto però cominciamo a scoprire la fantascienza cinese, che diventa ogni anno più interessante e importante. E dopo aver pubblicato sofisticati autori cino-americani come Ted Chiang e Ken Liu, "Robot" può proporvi adesso un 'autrice davvero cinese, HAO JINGFANG, vincitrice del Premio Hugo 2016 col racconto 굇쑴粮딸, ovvero "Pechino pieghevole". Scrittori lontani, scrittori vicini, come ALASTAIR REYNOLDS che è stato con noi a Milano a Stranimondi e di cui proponiamo lo squisito "La figlia del fabbricante di slitte". E squisito è il poker di autori italiani di questo numero, DIEGO LAMA, SAMUELE NAVA, ILARIA TUTI e MANUEL PIREDDA. Poi parliamo di Luna, di scrittori socialisti, e di un'attività così quotidiana per chi legge fantascienza: prevedere il futuro. Fondata da Vittorio Curtoni, Robot è una delle riviste di fantascienza italiane più prestigiose, vincitrice di un premio Europa e numerosi premi Italia. Dal 2011 è curata da Silvio Sosio.

Robot 79

Sam J. Miller

Amal El-Mohtar

Ann Leckie

Sunny Moraine

Richard Bowes

The January/February 2015 issue of Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), Sam J. Miller, Amal El-Mohtar, Richard Bowes, and Sunny Moraine, classic fiction by Ann Leckie, essays by Jim C. Hines, Erika McGillivray, Michi Trota, and Keidra Chaney, poetry by Isabel Yap, Mari Ness, and Rose Lemberg, interviews with Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu) and Ann Leckie, by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editoral by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.

January/February 2015

Uncanny Magazine Issue Two

Die besten Science-Fiction-Autoren aus China in einem Band Ein junger Mann wird dreimal in der Nacht angerufen – und jedes Mal ist er selbst am anderen Ende der Leitung. Genauer gesagt, sein zukünftiges Ich, und dreimal soll er die Welt vor der unausweichlichen Zerstörung retten. »Mondnacht« lautet der Titel dieser Kurzgeschichte von Cixin Liu, die der preisgekrönte Herausgeber und Übersetzer Ken Liu zusammen mit fünfzehn weiteren Erzählungen der besten Science-Fiction-Autoren Chinas in diesem Band versammelt hat. Manche sind bereits in der Literaturszene etabliert und international berühmt wie etwa Cixin Liu, Hao Jingfang und Han Song, manche gehören zur jungen, ehrgeizigen Generation wie Qiufan Chen und Xia Jia, und andere wiederum sind in der wachsenden Zunft der Geisteswissenschaftler verwurzelt, zum Beispiel Regina Kanyu Wang und Fei Dao. Sie alle entwickeln in ihren Erzählungen einen kritischen, von der Gegenwartskultur geprägten Blick auf China, und manche Texte konnten erst in der Übersetzung überhaupt veröffentlicht werden. Abgerundet wird dieser Sammelband durch drei Essays, die das Phänomen der chinesischen Science-Fiction ausführlich beleuchten und verständlich machen.

Eine Sprachwissenschaftlerin wird mitten in der Nacht angerufen. Die neueste Entwicklung auf dem Spielzeugmarkt, ein Plüsch-Seehund mit KI, hat offenbar eine eigene, für Menschen unverständliche Sprache entwickelt ... Ein König liebt nichts so sehr, wie neuen Geschichten zu lauschen. Doch irgendwann hat er alles gehört, was es zu erzählen gibt – und so lässt er kurzerhand einen Geschichtenroboter bauen ... Das Spektrum an Ideen, die fünfzehn der berühmtesten chinesischen Science-Fiction-Autorinnen und -Autoren in diesem Sammelband ausbreiten, zeigt auf beeindruckende Weise, wie einfallsreich und innovativ man sich in China mit dem Thema Künstliche Intelligenz auseinandersetzt.

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