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This sounds really cool! Especially seeing that my field of research focuses on Science Fiction. However, do you think it is as cool as the cover makes it out to be? There are some small essays in the work of Ken Liu, or rather the anthologies of short stories that they translated, and this sounds like the essay has been made into a book. Have you read anything translated by Ken Liu? Or maybe even the originals of the stories, seeing that you can read Chinese? So jealous that you can read Chinese man, I am now trying to learn Korean and it is so damn hard, the different sounds and the long words make it more difficult than Arabic, at least in my experience:o

Max wrote: "This sounds really cool! Especially seeing that my field of research focuses on Science Fiction. However, do you think it is as cool as the cover makes it out to be? There are some small essays in ..."

I have read a lot of Ken Liu's translations and essays; Song Mingwei, the author of this book, also has a translated anthology out as well. This book is academic in nature, so no original works, but he lists a TON of authors and stories. I am about halfway through this and there are some things I like and agree with, there are others I don't as much. I would recommend giving it a look if your work focuses on SF (my thesis is likely going to be on Chinese SF). And good luck with Korean! From what I've heard and read, Korean SF and dystopian works are going to take the work by storm.

Sounds good, I am going to look into getting it! I didn't know this author has a translated anthology as well, will look into that also. Cool that your thesis is going to be on Chinese SF! My first master thesis was on Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem, I loved writing it, hope you have the same experience! Korean SF/Fantasy is amazing, it is just so cool to read about entirely new worlds that seem so hard to create in our own society.

Max wrote: "Sounds good, I am going to look into getting it! I didn't know this author has a translated anthology as well, will look into that also. Cool that your thesis is going to be on Chinese SF! My first..."

Thanks! I look forward to hearing what you think of it