
The Undead (hospital Trilogy)
by Han Song
About This Novel
Han Song is a representative Chinese science fiction writer and is known as the "Philip Dick of contemporary China". His latest novel "Hospital" trilogy explores the medical secrets of the near future artificial intelligence era and ponders the cosmic changes in life and human nature. It is the culmination of Han Song's dystopian ideological system and is enough to rewrite the history of Chinese science fiction. The first "Hospital" proposed the subversive values of the "medicine age", and the second "Exorcism" further depicts the brief history of future patients in the "drug war". "The Undead", as the final chapter of the trilogy, constructs the medical society of Mars Hospital on the day of resurrection. The rise and collapse of the "medicine empire" hints at the secret of life's "original death or original death", and the world must be unspeakable in the end. The second-person narrative perspective of "The Undead" hints at the existence of a larger nested cyclic structure in the dark, like a mirror maze. The intertextually projected stories are infinitely derivative and mutated. The answers are followed by more questions, constructing a logically self-consistent and eternally expanding "cosmic hospital", and creating many original images and symbols that can be interpreted in multiple ways. Han Song's novels are profound representations of reality, and his critical spirit and literary imagination are directly inherited from Lu Xun. This hospital trilogy, which uses disease as a metaphor, further embodies the "dark consciousness" in Chinese science fiction.
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