Chinese Sci-fi novel bestseller

[Agoraphobic]

Years ago, I was quite an avid reader of Science fiction, especially books by Arthur Clarke. With PRC China now amongst the nations directly involved in space exploration, was curious to know what people of the middle kingdom viewed space as and how do they see themselves in it. Well, that wait is over. A Chinese sci-fi novel has been published, thank goodness an English version was printed. I'd be fucked trying to make sense of those squiggly characters, and hanyu-pinyin doesn't help. Anybody knows if this book is available here in Singapore? Which bookstore? Thanks in advance.

Cheers!


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-02/03/c_135071665.htm

Chinese sci-fi novel international bestseller

Source: Xinhua 2016-02-03 16:46:18

SHANGHAI, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- The English edition of "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin has sold more than 110,000 copies worldwide since its debut over a year ago, its English copyright holder announced on Wednesday.
Winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the first part of the Three-Body trilogy, the novel has made more than 2 million U.S. dollars, said Li Yun, an executive from the China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation.
Translated into English by Chinese-American Ken Li, the work was published by Tor Books in November 2014. "The Dark Forest," the second in the series, was published in the United States in August 2015. "Death's End," the last of the trilogy, will be published in August this year.
The trilogy depicts an alien invasion of Earth starting from China's Cultural Revolution period. "The Three-Body Problem" centers on a secret military project that enables humans to establish contact with the aliens who teeter on the edge of extinction.
The trilogy has sold more than 1 million copies in China. Liu was the first Asian writer to win the Hugo Award, generally considered the highest honor for sci-fi works.
Editor: Song Miou

 

[Alamakinky]

Among sci-fi stuff 2001 A Space Odyssey was good but difficult to figure out.

 

[Skype]

Rape of Nanking

 

[Agoraphobic]

Among sci-fi stuff 2001 A Space Odyssey was good but difficult to figure out.

2001 was a real pioneer in Sci-fi. The public wasn't ready for that level of thinking yet - a computer being able to mutiny the mission and disobey its human creators. That was part of the novels' plot, but the essence of the story was an attempt at man' first contact with an advance alien species, which took place when we were still not evolved fully into the human species. A monolith landed on Earth and influenced a tribe of Australopitecus hominids. This group of "apes" got the iea of using a huge bone as a weapon to assault a rival gang and win back the water hole they lost earlier. The astronaut character at the end flew into the monolith, an it ended there. There has been two sequels - 2010, and 3001. In 3001, David Bowman returned to Earth, to find out that there aren't anymore "pure" races. The human species has intermixed/bred so extensively that he appeared to be the ONLY Caucasian who was white. the Space Odyssey series made Arthur Clarke famous, because it was made into a movie, but I really would like to see Clarke's Rama series made into a movie, that work is indeed a classic masterpiece. Read it in the 80s, am still waiting for the movie to be made.

Cheers!

 

[eatshitndie]

waiting for ufo space cadet odyssey from gms. :o

 

[frenchbriefs]

im pretty sure sci fi was banned during mao zedong era so theres no such thing as chinese sci fi.sci fi was only reintroduced back in china when a monolith was discovered in China and the chinese apes picked up a screwdriver and started making the first apple ipods.

 

[red amoeba]

Best Chinese sci if ? Rou pu tuan