Three Delicacies
by Baoshu
About This Novel
The famous Chinese science fiction writer Bao Shu's self-selected masterpieces are gathered together! Twenty creative masterpieces, condensed from fifteen years of creative career, include the unpublished new masterpiece "Space Hunter" and the 2024 Hugo Award Best Short Story finalist "Three Foods". This book is divided into three volumes: "Universe", "Time and Space" and "Human World", which fully highlights the author's awareness of themes. With careful selection and arrangement of chapters, it creates a subversive cognitive pleasure and a wonderful reading experience. "Three Foods" (a finalist for the 2024 Hugo Award for Best Short Story): What is the nature of appetite? Is it the spicy and heavy taste, or is it the ingredients themselves? But some people are even willing to give up their lives in order to enjoy the best food! Behind the pursuit of taste pleasure again and again, human beings face their own biological nature again and again. "A Window with a Scenery" (Silver Award for Best Short Story at the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards): A primary school student who is not understood by his family and endures bullying at school discovers creatures in another world because of a cosmic window given by his grandfather - a visual device that can see distant planets. He was originally just a bystander, but because of this mysterious creature, this mysterious group of people gained a lifetime of salvation... "Journey to the Doomsday": When the earth is going to perish, other civilizations will entertain themselves to death. You are all going to be destroyed anyway, why not destroy more imaginatively? What, destruction postponed? That won't work! I spent all my money! "Timeline Customizer": The greatest discoverer came to the United Nations General Assembly to confess and atone for his sins to mankind, detailing to all mankind how he achieved his achievements, and how these great achievements led mankind into a crazy river of time that will never return...
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