Future Shock: Chinese Science Fiction Collection

Future Shock: Chinese Science Fiction Collection

Author: Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu

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Future shock included some very original and sometimes disturbing contemporary Chinese Science Fiction from the award-winning author Chen Qiufan and translated by Ken Liu, the translator of The Three Body Problem (Hugo Award winner). You can see how Chinese younger generation imagine about the future, the technology and how they change the people physically and spiritually.
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Balin_Section 4

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Balin_Section 4

2018-01-2600:21:215

Balin_Section 3

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Balin_Section 3

2018-01-2600:17:022

Balin_Section 2

Balin’s dark skin, an adaptation for the tropics, appears as aphotic as the abyss of deep space, all reflected light absorbed by the thick layer of gel smeared over his body and the nanometer-thin translucent membrane wrap. Suspended between bubbles in the gel, microsensors twinkle with a pale blue glow like dying stars, like the miniature images of me in his eyes.

Balin_Section 2

2018-01-1700:15:421

Balin_Section 1

Balin’s dark skin, an adaptation for the tropics, appears as aphotic as the abyss of deep space, all reflected light absorbed by the thick layer of gel smeared over his body and the nanometer-thin translucent membrane wrap. Suspended between bubbles in the gel, microsensors twinkle with a pale blue glow like dying stars, like the miniature images of me in his eyes.

Balin_Section 1

2018-01-1700:15:182

Coming of the Light (Part 3)

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Coming of the Light (Part 3)

2018-01-0500:17:332

Coming of the Light (Part 2)

My wife is a Neo-Luddite. Once, she had been a heavy gamer. She spent so much time on the computer that her parents sent her to a summer camp that specialized in curing Internet addiction. The experience caused her attitude toward technology to turn a hundred and eighty degrees.

Coming of the Light (Part 2)

2017-12-2300:21:084

Coming of the Light (Part 1)

My mother told me about a Buddhist monk she and I met while shopping on my first birthday. The monk caressed my head—back then as bald as his—and chanted a few lines that sounded like poetry.

Coming of the Light (Part 1)

2017-12-1800:16:111

The Smog Society (Part 2)

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The Smog Society (Part 2)

2017-12-1100:15:301

The Smog Society (Part 1)

If he woke in the morning to darkness, it was the smog's doing for sure.

The Smog Society (Part 1)

2017-12-0100:13:237

The Flower of Shazui_Section 3

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2017-11-2300:11:493

Comments (12)

Ann Johnson

I love these stories! stunning! thank you!

Oct 2nd

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Xu Rio

Thanks. From BeiJing of China.

Dec 6th

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Jeannette Sanchez

I love this podcast. I want more!

Nov 30th

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Jonnette Hilsenbeck

Good morning

Nov 26th

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triton62674

Good stuff

Nov 25th

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Alexis Bolden

Alexis Texas with a new phone

Nov 20th

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Dolores Millay

Wow, good update

Nov 20th

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Crosby Rublee

Future Shock is a delicate and incisive sci-fi series, finding humanity in an increasingly indiscernible technological world

Nov 10th

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Ryan Brown

There is a wonderful telling of the human condition and behavior, very deep and very real.

Nov 10th

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M Canby Umm

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Nov 12th

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Wyatt Isaiah Caccia

Future Shock is an instant sci-fi classic! I love the elements of modern Chinese culture blended in to this compelling story.

Nov 10th

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Toni Diane

Great sci-fi! I'm captivated.

Nov 9th

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