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Invisible Planets
''Invisible Planets'' (or ''Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation'') is a science-fiction anthology edited and translated by Ken Liu composed of thirteen short stories as well as three essays by different Chinese writers, namely Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia, Ma Boyong, Hao Jingfang, Tang Fei, Cheng Jingbo and Liu Cixin. It was published by Head of Zeus in March 2016. It contains the novelette " Folding Beijing", which won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2016, which also marked the first time a Chinese woman has won the award. Contents Short stories Essays Background In April 2017, Hao Jingfang announced that " Folding Beijing" would be adapted into a movie titled ''Folding City'' directed by Josh Kim by Wanda Media. In 2024, the movie is still in development. "Taking Care of God" also appeared in the collection ''The Wandering Earth'' by Liu Cixin and has a sequel, the short story " For the Benefit of Mankind", which won the Galaxy A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Liu
, birth_date = , birth_place = Lanzhou, Gansu, China , occupation = , nationality = American , period = , genre = Science fiction, fantasy , subject = , movement = , notableworks= * '' The Paper Menagerie'' (2011) * ''The Grace of Kings'' (2015) * ''The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories'' (2016) * ''The Hidden Girl and Other Stories'' (2020) * ''All That We See or Seem'' (2025) , spouse = Lisa Kaiyee Tang Liu , children = , relatives = , influences = , influenced = , awards = * Hugo Awards (×4) * Locus Awards (×3) * FantLab's Awards (×2) * Nebula Award (×1) * Sidewise Award (×1) * World Fantasy Award (×1) , signature = , website = , portaldisp = Kenneth Yukun Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his fiction, which has appeared in '' F&SF'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', '' Analog'', '' Lightspeed'', ''Clarkesworld' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Head Of Zeus
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in New York City, an India publishing office in New Delhi, an Australian sales office in Sydney CBD, and other publishing offices in the UK, including in Oxford. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The company was founded in 1986 by Nigel Newton, who had previously been employed by other publishing companies. It was floated as a public registered company in 1994, raising £5.5 million, which was used to fund expansion of the company into paperback and children's books. A rights issue of shares in 1998 further raised £6.1 million, which was used to expand the company, in particular to found a U.S. branch. In 1998, Bloomsbury USA was established. Bloomsbury USA Books for Young Reader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. ''Kirkus Reviews'', published on the first and 15th of each month, previews books before their publication. ''Kirkus'' reviews over 10,000 titles per year. History Virginia Kirkus was hired by Harper & Brothers to establish a children's book department in 1926. In 1932, the department was eliminated as an economic measure. However, within a year, Louise Raymond, the secretary Kirkus hired, had the department running again. Kirkus, however, had left and soon established her own book review service. Initially, she arranged to get galley proofs of "20 or so" books in advance of their publication; almost 80 years later, the service was receiving hundreds of books weekly and reviewing about 100. Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Horizons
''Strange Horizons'' is an online magazine, online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and non-fiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables. History and profile It was launched in September 2000, and publishes new material (fiction, articles, reviews, poetry, and/or art) 51 weeks of the year, with an emphasis on "new, underrepresented, and global voices." The magazine was founded by writer and editor Mary Anne Mohanraj. It is registered with the Internal Revenue Service, IRS as 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization. It has a staff of approximately sixty volunteers, and is unusual among professional speculative fiction magazines in being funded entirely by donations, holding annual fund drives. Editors-in-chief * Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2000–2003 * Susan Marie Groppi, 2004–2010 * Niall Harrison, 2010–2017 * Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, 2017–2019 * Vanessa Rose Phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of Book Publishing and Bookselling." With 51 issues a year, the emphasis today is on book reviews. History Nineteenth century The magazine was founded by bibliographer Frederick Leypoldt in the late 1860s and had various titles until Leypoldt settled on the name ''The Publishers' Weekly'' (with an apostrophe) in 1872. The publication was a compilation of information about newly published books, collected from publishers and from other sources by Leypoldt, for an audience of booksellers. By 1876, ''The Publishers' Weekly'' was being read by nine tenths of the booksellers in the country. In 1878, Leypoldt sold ''The Publishers' Weekly'' to his friend Richard Rogers Bowker, in order to free up time for his other bibliographic endeavors. Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxy Award (China)
The Galaxy AwardClute, John"Yinhe Award" ''Science Fiction Encyclopedia'', 3rd edition. Accessed 21 Nov. 2017 ( zh, c=银河奖, p=Yínhé Jiǎng) is China's most prestigious science fiction award, which was started in 1986 by the magazines ''Tree of Wisdom'' ( zh, c=《智慧树》, p=Zhìhuì Shù) and ''Science Literature & Art'' ( zh, c=《科学文艺》, p=Kēxué Wényì). After ''Tree of Wisdom'' ceased publication soon afterwards, the award was organized solely by ''Science Literature & Art'', which was renamed to ''Science Fiction World'' ( zh, c=《科幻世界》, pinyin=Kēhuàn Shìjiè) in 1991. The structure of the prize has evolved, becoming an annual prize in 1991, and has recognized different categories. In September 2016, the 27th Galaxy Award was held at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics;, in November 2017, the 28th award ceremony was held in Chengdu, China.With Her Eyes"(1998); ** He Xi (as He Hongwei), 异域, ''yìyù'' ["Strange Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The Benefit Of Mankind
"For the Benefit of Mankind" () is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, first published in ''Science Fiction World'' () in Chengdu in Sichuan Province in November 2005. The short story was included in the collection ''The Wandering Earth'' published by Head of Zeus in October 2017. Plot After the events of "Taking Care of God", the first spaceship of the other humans has arrived above Earth as the vanguard of an entire fleet. Since then, the ultra-rich upper class has behaved strangely: the assassin Smoothbore is first paid by them to murder as many homeless people as possible before they change their minds and offer them huge sums of money instead. The homeless people are only supposed to comply with the condition that they truthfully state who they received the money from if they are asked. When Smoothbore meets a representative of the other humans, the strange behavior is explained: after the arrival of the fleet of the other humans, they want to treat hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wandering Earth
''The Wandering Earth'' () is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, loosely based on the 2000 short story of the same name by Liu Cixin. The film stars Wu Jing, Qu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-tat, Zhao Jinmai and Qu Jingjing. Set in the far future, it follows a group of astronauts and rescue workers guiding the Earth away from an expanding Sun, while attempting to prevent a collision with Jupiter. The film was theatrically released in China on 5 February 2019 ( Chinese New Year's Day), by China Film Group Corporation. The film grossed worldwide. It is China's sixth highest-grossing film of all time and the sixth highest-grossing non-English film to date. It has received generally positive reviews from critics, with ''The Hollywood Reporter'' describing it as "China's first full-scale interstellar spectacular." Netflix acquired the film's global streaming rights and began streaming outside China on 30 April 2019. A second film, '' The Wandering Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanda Media
Wanda Media (), also known as Wanda Pictures, is a Chinese film production company and distributor. Wanda Media is a subsidiary of Wanda Group which is responsible for the development, investment, production, publicity, marketing, copyright operations, and other film and television related business. In 2014, the company was the largest Chinese private film production company and second-largest overall Chinese production company in China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ... by market share, with 3.17%, and the fifth-largest film distributor, with 5.2% of the market. Filmography The following is a list of films produced and/or distributed by Wanda Media (also known as Wanda Pictures). References External links * Dalian Wanda Group Film distributors of China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taking Care Of God
"Taking Care of God" () is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, first published in January 2005. The short story was included in the anthology '' Invisible Planets'' by Head of Zeus in March 2016 and the collection ''The Wandering Earth'' published by Head of Zeus in October 2017. Plot One day, thousands of spaceships appear in Earth's orbit, and at the same time, millions of bearded old men appear in the world's major cities. They claim to have created humanity, which turns out to be true thanks to buried surveillance technology, and that their civilization has now grown old (for example by no longer understanding its own technology) and hence needs to be cared for by humanity. Since they already saw this coming, they created humanity and then embarked on a dilation flight. Each family is then required by law to take in one of the "gods", who are almost three thousand years old, and the Care Age begins. People receive the technological achievements of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interzone (magazine)
''Interzone'' is a British fantasy and science fiction magazine. Published since 1982, ''Interzone'' is the eighth-longest-running English language science fiction magazine in history, and the longest-running British science fiction (SF) magazine. Stories published in ''Interzone'' have been finalists for the Hugo Awards and have won a Nebula Award and numerous British Science Fiction Awards. Publication history In 1981 Malcolm Edwards, who was then a freelance writer, and David Pringle, who chaired that year's British Science Fiction Convention, independently became interested in starting a new science fiction (sf) magazine. Pringle had obtained permission from the convention committee to put that year's profit of £1,300 (equivalent to £ in ) towards starting a magazine, and along with Simon Ounsley, Alan Dorey, and Graham James he created a proposal for a 112-page digest-sized magazine. Edwards' proposal was for a 32-page A4-sized magazine, to be funded by subscription ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarkesworld
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' is an American Online magazine, online Fantasy magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine edited by Neil Clarke (editor), Neil Clarke. It released its first issue October 1, 2006, and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Kij Johnson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Sarah Monette, Catherynne M. Valente, Jeff VanderMeer and Peter Watts (author), Peter Watts. Formats ''Clarkesworld Magazine'' is published or collected in a number of formats: * All fiction is collected annually in print anthology, anthologies published by Wyrm Publishing * Apps are available for Android (operating system), Android, iPad and iPhone devices * EPUB, Amazon Kindle, and Mobipocket ebook editions of each issue are available for purchase * All content is available online via the magazine website * All fiction is available in audio format via podcast or direct download * Ebook subscriptions for the Amazon Kindle, Kindle and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
