Broken Stars

Broken Stars, edited by multi award winning writer Ken Liu translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu is his second thought provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction Following Invisible Planets, Liu has now assembled the most comprehensive collection yet available in the English language, sure to thrill and gratify readers developing a taste and excitement for Chinese SF.Some of the included authors are already familiar to readers in the West Liu Cixin and Hao Jingfang, both Hugo winners some are publishing in English for the first time Because of the growing interest in newer SFF from China, virtually every story here was first published in Chinese in the 2010s.The stories span the range from short shorts to novellas, and evoke every hue on the emotional spectrum Besides stories firmly entrenched in subgenres familiar to Western SFF readers such as hard SF, cyberpunk, science fantasy, and space opera, the anthology also includes stories that showcase deeper ties to Chinese culture alternate Chinese history, chuanyue time travel, satire with historical and contemporary allusions that are likely unknown to the average Western reader While the anthology makes no claim or attempt to be representative or comprehensive, it demonstrates the vibrancy and diversity of science fiction being written in China at this moment.In addition, three essays at the end of the book explore the history of Chinese science fiction publishing, the state of contemporary Chinese fandom, and how the growing interest in science fiction in China has impacted writers who had long labored in obscurity.Stories include Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia The Snow of Jinyang by Zhang Ran Broken Stars by Tang Fei Submarines by Han Song Salinger and the Koreans by Han Song Under a Dangling Sky by Cheng Jingbo What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu The New Year Train by Hao Jingfang The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales by Fei Dao Moonlight by Liu Cixin The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Laba Porridge by Anna Wu The First Emperor s Games by Ma Boyong Reflection by Gu Shi The Brain Box by Regina Kanyu Wang Coming of the Light by Chen Qiufan A History of Future Illnesses by Chen QiufanEssays A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and Fandom, by Regina Kanyu Wang, A New Continent for China Scholars Chinese Science Fiction Studies by Mingwei Song Science Fiction Embarrassing No More by Fei DaoForChinese SF in translation, check out Invisible Planets. New Download [ Broken Stars ] Author [ Ken Liu ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Ken Liu openly states in his introduction that these stories are selected based on his tastes There is a variety of some known Chinese science fiction writers, and some new voices Most of them were new to me as I m woefully behind on books like the Three Body Problem, among others There is also an earlier volume of Chinese science fiction in translation that is probably worth the read.Not only are there stories in this anthology, but three essays about the current state of Chinese science fic Ken Liu openly states in his introduction that these stories are selected based on his tastes There is a variety of some known Chinese science fiction writers, and some new voices Most of them were new to me as I m woefully behind on books like the Three Body Problem, among others There is also an earlier volume of Chinese science fiction in translation that is probably worth the read.Not only are there stories in this anthology, but three essays about the current state of Chinese science fiction I was fascinated to find out that contemporary acceptance of the genre in its home country is very recent, as the genre was widely disregarded up until just a few years ago and I m guessing not everyone is on board yet There are some stories focusing on technology in this anthology, but honestly not as many as I would have expected if I d had to guess Many are time travel or have time travel components, or are taking a part of known Chinese history and tweaking it, falling a...Favorite stories Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia a reread for me, I enjoyed it eventhe second time What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu it s a love story where historical events run backwards, and it made me cry The First Emperor s Games by Ma Boyong a ton of fun and kind of similar in concept to The Snow of Jinyang , but worked better because it was short My rating is probablyaccurately 3.5 stars, if I average out what I would rate each story There are Favorite stories Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia a reread for me, I enjoyed it eventhe second time What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu it s a love story where historical events run backwards, and it made me cry The First Emperor s Games by Ma Boyong a ton of fun and kind of similar in concept to The Snow of Jinyang , but worked better because it was short My rating is probablyaccurately 3.5 stars, if I average out what I would rate each story There are two lengthy stories in the middle The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales and The Snow of Jinyang that I simply did not find interesting I tried reading both when they were first published in Clarkesworld, and ended up skim reading them then and again this time I felt like they were too long.I was also a little thrown off by Broken Stars by Tang Fei somehow it started off with a girl in school and struggling with f...Thanks so Cixin Liu and Ken Liu, I ve become a big fan of Chinese science fiction over the years, both long novels and short stories In this anthology, Ken Liu presents and translates an anthology of sixteen short stories by fourteen Chinese science fiction writers, as ...Ken Liu mentions in his introduction for Broken Stars that he curated it by selecting stories that he enjoyed and thought were memorable I like to think our tastes overlap quite a fair bit since there are a number of stories that really stuck out to me Some of these Xia Jia s Goodnight, Melancholy , Baoshu s What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear , Tang Fei s Broken Stars and Fei Dao s The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales.Aside from the three essays about the history and rise of Ken Liu mentions in his introduction for Broken Stars that he curated it by selecting stories that he enjoyed and thought were memorable I like to think our tastes overlap quite a fair bit since there are a number of stories that really stuck out to me Some of these Xia Jia s Goodnight, Melancholy , Baoshu s What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear , Tang Fei s Broken Stars and Fei Dao s The Ro...8 4 19This book came out in February How has it not been reviewed yet I bought this today in the book store because I had a conversation with someone last week about Chinese literature science fiction and how much Ken Liu has been trying hard to make it available to English speakers I have been studying Chinese for some while and am nowhere near reading such advance literature, so I am really thankful for Liu s work I can t wait to have a read and review it You can find me onYoutube Ins 8 4 19This book came out in February How has it not been reviewed yet I bought this today in the book store because I had a conversation with someone last week about Chinese literature science fiction and how much Ken Liu has been trying hard to make it available to English speakers I have been studying Chinese for some while and am nowhere near reading such advance literature, so I am really thankful for Liu s work I can t wait to ha...Considering Invisible Planets was the best SF short story anthology I ve ever read, I NEED this book I can t wait for this releaseBroken Stars reads like an also ran to the excellent Invisible Planets Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Both are collections of Chinese science fiction edited and mostly translated by Ken Liu Both have many of the same authors But where there is overlap, the stories in Invisible Planets seemed better e.g., Folding Beijing was better than Hao Jingfang s story in this collection, both Liu Cixin s were better in the previous collection than in this one, the essays at the b Broken Stars reads like an also ran to the excellent Invisible Planets Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation Both are collections of Chinese science fiction edited and mostly translated by Ken Liu Both have many of the same authors But where there is overlap, the stories in Invisible Planets seemed better e.g., Folding Beijing was better than Hao Jingfang s story in this collection, both Liu Cixin s were better in the previous collection than in this one, the essays at the back were much better in the first, etc Several of the stories in Broken Stars are excellent, some feel distinctively Chinese What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear by Baoshu while others less so Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia and Reflection by Gu Shi , but overall a nice variety of styles and types.Some specifics Goodnight, Melancholy by Xia Jia 5 stars I can t get enough of Turing Test stories and this is an excellent one, interspersing vignettes of a near future autonomous ...However, after many years of worldly experience, I think tall tales give pleasure simply from the imagination s leap into the infinite It s no different from humanity s desire to fly The pleasure alone is reason enough no other explanation is needed.I m so happy to have discovered the joy of the short story These are really cool insights in various dilemmas, described in widely varying styles Ehh and it s definitely not as boring as I make it sound I have no idea what contemporary western sci fi short stories are like, but what I love about this anthology is the flexibility that all the authors display in their writing It almost feels like fanfic in that they don t hesitate to cite other works and tropes to make their own unique stateme I m so happy to have discovered the joy of the short story These are really cool insights in various dilemmas, described in widely varying styles Ehh and it s definitely not as boring as I make it sound I have no idea what contemporary western sci fi short stories are like, but what I love about this anthology is the flexibility that all the authors display in their writing It almost feels like fanfic in that they don t hesitate to cite other works and trop...Thought provoking, just the way I like my sci fi to be I have to say that aside from Cixin Liu s Three Body Problem, I don t know much about Chinese science fiction I enjoyed this collection quite a bit and even found myself tearing up a...

• English
• 16 September 2018
Ken Liu
• Hardcover
• 480 pages
• 1250297664
• Ken Liu
• Broken Stars