Invisible Planets

Award winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from China Some stories have won awards some have been included in various Year s Best anthologies some have been well reviewed by critics and readers and some are simply Ken s personal favorites Many of the authors collected here with the obvious exception of Liu Cixin belong to the younger generation of rising stars.In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore Chinese science fiction Liu Cixin s essay, The Worst of All Possible Universes and The Best of All Possible Earths, gives a historical overview of SF in China and situates his own rise to prominence as the premier Chinese author within that context Chen Qiufan s The Torn Generation gives the view of a younger generation of authors trying to come to terms with the tumultuous transformations around them Finally, Xia Jia, who holds the first Ph.D issued for the study of Chinese SF, asks What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese . Free Read [ Invisible Planets ] Author [ Ken Liu ] – kino-fada.fr 3.15There I did it I must say that this was a somewhat hard journey as there are many cultural differences But I am curious now in regard to Chinese sci fi, and I ll be reading somein the future 1 The Year of the Rat by Chen QuifanIn the Year of the Rat you re going to fight rats Now that s funnyThis was Well, I m not sure what this was It felt like some kind of dystopia, where you either have a job, or you end up fighting rats It felt like a horror story, where 3.15There I did it I must say that this was a somewhat hard journey as there are many cultural differences But I am curious now in regard to Chinese sci fi, and I ll be reading somein the future 1 The Year of the Rat by Chen QuifanIn the Year of the Rat you re going to fight rats Now that s funnyThis was Well, I m not sure what this was It felt like some kind of dystopia, where you either have a job, or you end up fighting rats It felt like a horror story, where you ...4.5 stars for this collection of Chinese SF short stories Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature Invisible Planets is an interesting and varied anthology of thirteen speculative short fiction stories and three essays by seven contemporary Chinese authors, translated into English by Ken Liu As Liu mentions in the Introduction, several of these stories have won U.S awards most notably the 20...I am a big Ken Liu fans so this collection of collated science fiction that he translated fascinated me I enjoyed the 13 stories and their various perspectives There is a running debate in the intro and the three concluding essays on what Chinese sci fi is or isn t which was equally fascinating.Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC There were quite a few interesting stories in this volume It isn t considered a Best Of collection by a long shot, but it does happen to give us westerners a taste of modern Chinese SF in the form it has now become I won t say that a few were breaking any molds or anything, but there are a few things to consider.Such as Well, SF as a whole is generally less respected in China than it is over here with one exception Liu Cixin is followed by the Chinese intern Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC There were quite a few interesting stories in this volume It isn t considered a Best Of collection by a long shot, but it does happen to give us westerners a taste of modern Ch...Expertly curated anthology of short speculative fiction by Chinese writers.I ve really enjoyed reading short science fiction lately and Invisible Planets is a fantastic addition to my collection It features thirteen short stories from seven Chinese writers, collected and translated by writer Ken Liu Liu is upfront about the book s limitations and he cautions the reader to not draw any broad conclusions from the selections He selected works that were most accessible to a wide audience Liu urg Expertly c...3.5 star averageAn intriguing collection of Chinese science fiction Some of these stories are award winners, some of them are popular, and others are just the editors personal favorites Hao Jingfang, who won the Hugo last year, has two stories in this collection Folding Beijing is a study of economic inequality and physical separation by a city folding in on itself, and Invisible Planets is a tour of exotic worlds, likely an homage to Italo Calvino Liu Cixin, who wrote the Three Body Problem, has two stori An intriguing collection of Chinese science fiction Some of these stories are award winners, some of them are popular, and others are just the editors personal favorites Hao Jingfang, who won the Hugo last year, has two stories in this collection Folding Beijing is a study of economic inequality and physical separation by a city folding in on itself, and Invisible Planets is a tour of exotic worlds, likely an ...Introduction Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Ken Liu Chen Qiufan The Year of the RatIn an economically depressed near future, college graduates are recruited to military platoons in order to fight genetically modified rats Intended as pets for export, the creatures are invasive but show disturbing signs of inte...I haven t read all that much Chinese speculative fiction, so when I saw Invisible Planets on Netgalley, I jumped at the chance to read it I m always incredulous by any statements attempting to summarize the imaginations of an entire country, so I was relieved when Ken Liu explicitly stated in the forward that he had no illusions that the collection is somehow a full representation of all of Chinese scifi As he says, this is a collection of stories from seven contemporary authors, and while the I haven t read all that much Chinese speculative fiction, so when I saw Invisible Planets on Netgalley, I jumped at the chance to read it I m alwa...Well science fiction for me means space, future, mind blowing technology, new ideas, interstellar travel, you get the picture And in this collection just few have some of that barely Half of them areon the magical realism side But it is an interesting insight in other culture s view on sci fi I also liked that each of the seven writers were presented very nicely by Ken Liu.Here s a few words about the ones I enjoyed as for the others, they are definitely too surrealist for my taste Well science fiction for me means space, future, mind blowing technology, new ideas, interstellar travel, you get the picture And in this collection just few have some of that barely Half of them areon the magical realism side But it is an interesting insight in other culture s view on sci fi I also liked that each of the seven writers were presented very nicely by Ken Liu.Here s a few words about the o...

• English
• 27 August 2017
Ken Liu
• Hardcover
• 383 pages
• 0765384191
• Ken Liu
• Invisible Planets