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Zhang Fan's instant universe

Chen Jiangong and Li Jingze, vice-chairmen of the Chinese Writers Association, wholeheartedly recommend him. This is a youth science fiction novel about time and space, memory and forgetting. Connected by a magical, ever-moving crystal hourglass, the semi-closed story of seven main characters intersecting and constantly reconstructing is performed in three time cross-sections 12 years apart in 1984, 1996, and 2008. In a small county in northern Jiangsu, Wu Zhenxin, a slightly neurotic scientist, used the materials used to make crystal coffins to create a "time hourglass" that can not only accurately time time but also cycle and never stop...