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Why Chinese science fiction is having more than a moment – beyond Netflix’s 3 Body Problem

✍️ Bernard Cohen 📅 September 30, 2024 07:15 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 05, 2025

Summary: Hao Jingfang beat Stephen King to the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, while Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide has drawn comparisons to J.G. Ballard, William Gibson and Ursula Le Guin

Waste Tide author Chen Qiufan is, he says, a “science-fiction realist”. He has borrowed the term from Zheng Wenguang, eulogised as the father of Chinese science fiction, but his writing approach has as much in common with the stylish British writer J.G.

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