Tag Archives: SF

2020: Excerpt Russian SF Novel A.P.O.C.A.L.L.I.P.S.I.S.

Posted on 04/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Found on a Russian website, translated using DeepL. Apocalytic and post-apoctalyptic fiction is intriguing. How would you rebuild a fallen world? This SF novel was published before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bloody battles between invaders from outer space and Russian … Continue reading →

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2021: Reception of US SciFi in China; A Chinese SF Grandmaster — Ye Yonglie 叶永烈

Posted on 02/18/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Ye Yonglie (1940-2020) Chinese author and occasional film director, sometimes under the pen-names Ye Yang, Ye Ting, Xiao Yong or Jiu Yuan, whose output stretches to fifty volumes of material, of which twenty-four are listed as “works popularizing science”. A … Continue reading →

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2021: Chinese SF/Ham Radio Web Novel: We Live in Nanjing

Posted on 12/18/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

I follow the Shenyang Amateur Radio Club on Weibo social media. They passed along a glowing review of new online novel We Live in Nanjing in which a ham radio operator plays a central role. This novel, by Tianrui Shuofu, … Continue reading →

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2014: Alien Help is On the Way!

Posted on 09/10/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

While living in Beijing in the late 1990s, I noticed that during times of political tension, UFO sightings went way up. I wonder if that is still true. I’ll be watching, and maybe the aliens will too. Look what has … Continue reading →

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2017: SF Hugo Winner Liu Cixin: Tough Road Ahead for Traditional Science Fiction

Posted on 08/23/2017 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Cixin’s 2017 interview with the Xinhua Press Agency. See also the 2019 New York Times interview with the translator of the Three-Body Problem into English, the American science fiction writer Ken Liu :  Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin … Continue reading →

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