Galaxy Award's Ten Years of Science Fiction Masterpieces

Kevin is a low-level lothario who grew up near the port, and is also a miner leader under the interstellar colonization company "Sword Shark". For nearly two decades, he has led his team to travel through space, mining and transporting various precious resources. During this mission, Kevin once again entered the "star" - the corpse of a huge alien creature floating in space. Not only did he have to compete with other teams, he also had to deal with two uninvited guests sent by the company: Qiong, an alien biologist who is obsessed with scientific research, and Yingjiu, who was defeated in office politics. When an unexpected disaster occurs inside the star, the undercurrents among the people who already have their own thoughts become more and more intense, and the direction of things becomes more and more bizarre...

In the not-too-distant future, terrorist attacks and viruses have taken over every corner of the world, and large-scale offline activities are explicitly prohibited. In the post-epidemic era, people no longer have the freedom to gather - weddings, funerals, concerts, sports events... Have all become a thing of the past. All human desires can be satisfied in the "hood space" by then. Luce Cannon, a passionate musician, longs for direct and essential communication with her audience; Rosemary Rouse, who lives in a safe community, longs to explore a wider world. The fate of the two people intertwined like notes, and finally played a beautiful and hopeful melody.

On the desolate, isolated planet Tantalus, which has long been isolated from other planets, Kyoko, a girl who dreams of traveling around the world, meets Iskander, a "businessman", and Xiaoyin, a "bodyguard" who come from afar. After the two resolved the water quality crisis that had plagued the town for a long time, Kyoko vaguely realized that they were not simple, and she decided to follow them on their journey. Along the way, as many strange things were solved one by one by them, either by outsmarting or by force, the hidden thread hidden behind them - the key to the fate of all the inhabitants of the planet also gradually emerged...

Ren Qing's first personal collection of short and medium-length science fiction novels reviews his six-year science fiction creation process starting in 2018. The nine selected works include the famous works "The Lost Circus" and "Resurrection", the sharp style works "Night Circle" and "Orphan White", the mysterious new works "The Fictional Zero", "The End of the End", etc. These stories revolve around themes such as dreams, subconsciousness and artificial intelligence. The writing style is beautiful and profound, and the emotions are delicate and warm. They not only show new and bizarre technological ideas, but also contain keen and profound philosophical thinking.

From the countryside that hides the secrets of time and space, passing by the seaside town where horrific experiments are carried out secretly, stopping in the city as bright as the Milky Way, and finally, heading towards a world that is threatened by natural disasters and is about to be destroyed. The four stories are like such a long journey, with different scenes and colorful group portraits. What is consistent is the cruel and tender brushwork, the nostalgia and farewell to the gradually dimming light of the past.

Language is magic, translation is betrayal. In the 1820s, the plague swept through Guangzhou, and the boy Robin's family died tragically. However, he escaped from death. The mysterious Professor Lovell came to the rescue and took him to the other side of the ocean to London, England, where he was trained as an adult, just to make him qualified to study in the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel is the translation center of this world and the center of magic. The tower's polyglot scholars made magic work with the help of translators. Translation cannot be perfect, so meanings that are lost or distorted in the translation process are captured and revealed by the silver bars. Engraved silver bars were the source of imperial power, making the British fleet invincible, spurring the birth of the Silver Industrial Revolution, and helping Britain capture the world's silver. As the study progresses, Robin becomes addicted to the magic of translation, but does not know that he and his companions are about to be involved in a conspiracy that has been brewing for a long time... Disappeared students, mysterious societies, when malice, jealousy, greed and violence fill this tower of ideals, they must make a choice whether to be loyal to their mother tongue and homeland, or to continue to live in a foreign country.

"Star Maker" was published in 1937. It is a work with extremely strange form and content. The book describes the history of life in the universe, and its time scale far exceeds the two billion years of human history in its predecessor, "The First and the Last Man." "Star Maker" explores many philosophical propositions such as the nature of life, birth, decline and death, and explores the relationship between the Creator and creation. Throughout the book, there is a process of gradual unification within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed in it predicted genetic engineering and alien life forms often mentioned in later science fiction novels.

Playboy Lu Jianli has a crazy interstellar dream, he wants to chase a comet. Unexpectedly, the spaceship he was traveling in had an accident and he was ejected from the cabin, drifting aimlessly in the rings of Saturn. Accidents in life come one after another, including betrayal and separation, no one to rescue him, and supplies of survival materials running out... He became a human asteroid forgotten by mankind. Unexpectedly, with the help of the Saturn probe's main controller A. I. Doris, Lu Jianli, who was originally certain to die, survived with a very low probability. In order to survive, Lu Jianli landed on Enceladus, used gene editing technology to modify gene fragments, and made new fish fry. He then raised fish on Enceladus, which has a vast ocean, and barely survived. At the same time, Doris and the aerospace company are formulating a rescue plan. Lu Jianli has been fighting alone for a long time, almost to the limit of survival. Can he wait until the rescue ship arrives?

In the eight short stories of "The Purple and the Black", K. J. Parker fully demonstrates to readers his unique knowledge and his profound insight into human nature - the former makes the construction of his worldview solid and complete, and the latter gives life to the characters.

Human scientists have established contact with a kind of intelligent life - Qila, they are similar in size to the sesame seeds on Earth. Kira lives on a dragon's egg, a neutron star whose surface gravity is 67 billion times that of Earth. Because the size of this neutron star is much smaller than that of the Earth, the time measurement between the two is also very different. One hour on Earth is equivalent to hundreds of years on a dragon's egg. Such a small life, yet so great and magnificent. In less than twenty years, mankind has gone through the entire history of human civilization that spans tens of thousands of years.

When we leave our hometown, we are geographically and regionally foreigners; when we go to a foreign country, we are ethnically and nationally foreigners; however, when we return to our homeland, we may be institutionally and spiritually foreigners. As Haruki Murakami said: "No matter where we are, some part of us is a stranger." This overlap and dislocation between hometown and foreign land, hometown people and foreigners, this kind of light and dark zone, may be the place where many of us modern people start...

The war between the human joint fleet and the Dark Abyss ended in human victory. The main force of the human fleet and the patrol-armed Stardust Fleet pursued the remaining forces of the Dark Abyss. The leader of the Shield Empire, Pixar, took advantage of the situation, plotted against his allies, usurped the supreme power of the United Fleet, coveted the heart of the galaxy, and wanted to build a galactic empire. Dan Suyi led the remaining patrol forces to resist Pixar and urgently reported to the Heart of the Galaxy. On the spiral arm of Orion, the protagonist Li Yusu unexpectedly discovered that the meritorious battleship "Heavy Armor" was reborn. The legendary General Gurlitt was still alive, but he had become a puppet of the dark abyss and was preparing to make a desperate expedition to the heart of the galaxy. The mysterious son of Ebo strategized, commanded Jia Shang and led the machine fleet to conquer the east and west, keeping an eye on the heart of the galaxy. The heart of the galaxy has become the end point where the forces of all parties gather. The star sea competes for the final battle in the center of the galaxy! A space-time jump of more than 10,000 light-years ushered in a completely unexpected ending...

Nonsense speculation about the future, a peaceful utopia deprived of truth and full of useless information. The quieter the sleep, the more undercurrents there are. There is absurd truth in the absurd predictions.

God, who has bestowed wisdom on mankind and protected mankind for 100,000 years, takes the initiative to "appear holy" in front of the world, but his true identity is actually an alien race that has descended on the earth since ancient times. His appearance revealed an unprecedented crisis: the alien fleet, the descendants of God, is about to expedition to the earth, and mankind will face the fate of being enslaved. One is his descendants and the other is his human people. How will God choose? Where will humanity go from here? How will the flowers of good and evil bloom under the catastrophe?

This book "Never Meet in Life" contains eleven science fiction novels written by He Xi. Among them, "The Heartbreaker", "Love Separation" and "Never Meet in Life" are winning works of the Galaxy Award, the highest award for Chinese science fiction creation.

It overcomes the shortcomings of focusing only on fantasy and not on story, and is extremely dramatic and infectious.