Invisible Planets
by Ken Liu · first published 2016
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Ken Liu edits this anthology of Chinese science fiction short stories in English translation. Readers call it an accessible entry into contemporary Chinese SF, with standouts Folding Beijing and City of Silence.
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1 volume ; 20 cm
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…by Ken Liu. Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang is great and free to read[1], there's The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin whose Three Body books got a lot of attention, and there's another collection called Invisible Planets, which has a few good stories by Chen Qiufan. He's also written a very good novel called Waste Tide. [1]https://uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/
on “50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels” ↗What's the end game for China, and indeed the world? One dystopian preview is Ma Boyong's award winning short story "City of Silence", published as part of Ken Liu's Invisible Planets. One can also read it at https://web.archive.org/web/20120221185906/http://worldsf.wo... and https://web.archive.org/web/20120229091732/http://worldsf.wo... Edit: added part 2.
on “Soros at Davos: China's social credit system and Big IT are mortal threat” ↗Terminal Boredom, Izumi Suzuki Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu
on “Ask HN: Modern Sci-Fi Book Recommendations?” ↗Standouts for me were Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), Exhalation (Ted Chiang), Invisible Planets (an anthology of Chinese sci-fi short stories, translated by Ken Liu) and Longitude (Dava Sobel). I also finally got around to reading Cixin Liu's Three Body series, and although not perfect, there's…
on “Ask HN: What book(s) did you love reading this year?” ↗You might like Invisible Planets, Chinese sci-fi short stories compilation. I’ve read a few of them; Folding Beijing is pretty great.
on “Permutation City (1994)” ↗