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People Are Decorating Christmas Trees with Flowers as a Gorgeous Alternative to Traditional Trimmings

Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest is a mind-bending blend of splashy SF and serious science. A review on The Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog.

Read Selections from Cixin Liu’s Death’s End on Tor.com.

Chinese sci-fi writer beats Stephen King for top fiction prize

Hao Jingfang wins Hugo award with dark story of social inequality and injustice in Beijing

“A futuristic tale of urban life in Beijing has won a Chinese novelist a top international prize for science fiction, beating out heavyweight Stephen King for the honour.

Hao Jingfang, 32, won the Hugo Award for best novelette with Folding Beijing, a year after another Chinese writer, Liu Cixin, won the best novel prize for The Three-Body Problem, Xinhua reported on the weekend.

Receiving her award in Kansas City, Missouri, Hao said she was not surprised she had won but had also been prepared to lose.

“In Folding Beijing, I have raised a possibility for the future and how we face the challenges of automated production, technological advances, unemployment and economic stagnation,” she said.

Hao said her book offered a solution to those challenges, but she hoped the situations she described would not become reality.

Hao is from Tianjin, and graduated with a physics degree from Tsinghua University in 2006.

The Hugo Awards, established in 1953, are regarded as the highest honour in science fiction and fantasy. They are named after Hugo Gernsback who was the founder of the American science fiction magazineAmazing Stories.”

Read the full piece here

Congratulations Hao Jingfang!

Unfortunately, I cannot see the Milky Way from my backyard because of light pollution.

Poo dat said they gon beat them ain'ts!

Death’s end review

Two dimensional characters and an ending that falls flat. 10/10.

We discussed the science fiction novel Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, the English translation (by Ken Liu) was released on November 11th. First half is spoiler free/minimal, second half of the discussion contains major plot spoilers. All of the liveshow participants were fortunate enough to receive ARCs from the publisher, Tor.

Participants:

Michael from Bitten by a Radioactive Book: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaqri6yb-dGzmfw8SHMo0yw

Elizabeth from Books and Pieces: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXifXYnZ5fVrlhpuhDjZOGg

Kaitlin from Kitty G: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubeiIJVCyYgn5bqfD0jl0w

Brock from Let’s Read: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMGoaqXQ6d6Z3Vr-I3JIy6A

Bri from Stories from the Shelf: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmTKGq0LnoybKSMk0PYCF-g