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"The Eye at the End of the Universe" is a festival-themed story that was completed during the Spring Festival by the new media platform "Absence Daily" under the Future Affairs Administration, which gathered top domestic science fiction and popular science writers during the Spring Festival. It is also China's first science fiction Spring Festival Gala. It is led by Liu Cixin and co-created by Baoshu, Chen Qiufan, Fei Deuterium, Jiang Bo, Hao Jingfang, Ling Chen, Qige, Wang Liming, Wanxiang Fengnian, Yang Ping, and Zhang Ran. How did the observation of 12 pairs of eyes affect two civilizations and even the entire universe? The full text of the observation report is now available, and the Future Affairs Administration sincerely invites you to collect it and read it.

This book collects 18 novels from the 3rd "Science Fiction Spring Festival Gala" in 2018. Within the stipulated time limit of 48 hours, top domestic and foreign science fiction authors create about 5,000 words of science fiction novels around the same theme, bringing a reading experience that is both familiar and different from daily life. For a long time, science fiction has been considered a genre of literature with a reading threshold and widely different styles. The "Science Fiction Spring Festival Gala" hopes to break the isolation between readers and authors and help Chinese science fiction start from here to create its own golden age.

"2017 Science Fiction Spring Festival Gala" science fiction novel collection includes: "Spring Festival Overture", "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", "Spring Story", "Pretty Sunset", "Universe Cigarettes", "Tiger's Mouth Reverie", "The Sound of the Waves Still Sound", "Packaged Like This" and "Clouds of Hometown" "Silang Visits His Mother", "Crossing the River", "The Empty City Plan", "Meet in 1998", "The Hanging Man", "Chicken Eating", "Three Crossroads", "The Cop and the Thief", "Go Home Often", "Supernatural Guerrilla", "Good Luck", "Thousand-Hand Guanyin" and "Unforgettable Tonight". The topics selected by the Future Bureau all come from the most popular programs on the Spring Festival Gala stage in the past thirty years. The writers have to complete the creation of about 4,000 words of science fiction short stories within 48 hours after selecting the topics. They are also required to set details in the science fiction novels that echo or pay tribute to the original Spring Festival Gala programs. "Science Fiction Spring Festival Gala" is a science fiction serialization event held by the "No Existence Daily" under the Future Affairs Administration during the Spring Festival every year. During the 2017 Spring Festival, 23 science fiction writers with different styles participated in this event. Among them are senior authors Han Song, He Xi, Chen Chen, Yang Pingping, Jiang Bo, Chen Qiufan, Fei Deuterium, Wanxiang Fengnian, Zhang Ran, Liu Yang, Aque and other new generations who have become famous and have distinctive styles. There are also new authors such as Teng Ye, Tata, Sun Wanglu, Hao He, Mu Ming, KiSA, Zhao Maoyu, and Diptera who are still new but have great potential in the future. The 23 science fiction novels have different styles, but they all maintain a high level of creation. Among them, there are novel works in the common context of traditional space themes, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence and other science fiction novels, as well as some hard-to-categorize fictional works, near-future social fantasy, traditional literary adaptations and magical realism works. "2017 Science Fiction Spring Festival Gala" was originally serialized on the WeChat public platform of "No Existence Daily", Guoke. Com, Douban, Zhihu, The Paper, Toutiao, Tiantian Kuaibao, NetEase News, Jianshu, MONO and other platforms. It aroused enthusiastic response among science fiction fans and has been read more than 1.5 Million times in total. Here, we have compiled 23 works into a collection to present all the works of the "2017 Science Fiction Spring Festival Gala" for the readers' enjoyment. The Future Affairs Administration is a science and technology culture brand with "future" as its core. It is committed to the dissemination of science fiction culture and the construction of science fiction ecology, and creates a golden age of Chinese science fiction.

With the theme of "time", this book mainly contains domestic and foreign science fiction novels, supplemented by forums, comics, and illustrations. It uses different angles, novel forms, and rich content to provide readers with never-before-introduced foreign classics and new masterpieces by domestic authors.

Since the 21st century, the field of American science fiction has undergone silent and huge changes: it pays more attention to language and narrative, focuses more on political issues in culture, and appreciates the author's unique experience. All this is ultimately reflected in the various award lists every year. The Future Affairs Administration is committed to the dissemination of science fiction culture and exclusively introduces shortlisted and award-winning works of multiple important science fiction awards in 2017, hoping to allow Chinese readers to appreciate the development of science fiction in the world today. This anthology is the first in The Future Bureau's international selection of award-winning science fiction novels.

"Cats Don't Exist" is an anthology of cat-themed science fiction novels, including works by well-known domestic and foreign science fiction authors, as well as important award-winning works such as the Hugo Award. It includes 17 cat-related science fiction novels by domestic and foreign science fiction writers (including 12 domestic works and 5 foreign works), and 5 non-fiction science fiction interesting articles related to cats.