SINOPTICON

Ever since Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem, there has been growing Western demand for Chinese science fiction. Sinopticon offers a sampling of the best-known writers in Chinese sci-fi from the late-20th century to today. Thirteen short stories, all translated into English for the first time, take the reader through a panoply of worlds and genres, from a library floating for eternity through space to the sweaty overcrowded life of a worker on Mars.

The work has been carefully curated and translated by Xueting Christine Ni, who includes detailed explanations of significant Chinese cultural elements that might have easily become lost in translation.