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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.

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.”

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Congratulations Hao Jingfang!

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Juno mission: Nasa spacecraft successfully enters Jupiter's orbit – watch live

Nasa mission reaches crucial moment as spacecraft attempts make-or-break gravity capture manoeuvre so it can study the solar system’s largest planet. Follow all the developments here

“Welcome to jupiter”

“Welcome to jupiter,” a voice said over the radio at Nasa’s JPL, with scientists cheering, clapping and hugging each other.

The burn time was within one second of the predicted time, putting it in exactly the orbit it needed.

“You’re the best team ever! We just did the hardest thing Nasa has ever done,” shouted, principle investigator of the Juno mission, Scott Bolton.

我点燃了火，却控制不了它。

I started the fire, but I couldn’t control how it burnt.  

“The Three Body Problem” movie: sci-fi made in China?

Awesome! They made it into a fim. I cannot wait to see it.