Chen Qiufan
Born
in Shantou, China
November 30, 1981
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Waste Tide
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2013
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The Year of the Rat
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The Fish of Lijiang
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2006
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L'eterno addio
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The Flower of Shazui
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The Smog Society
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Future Disease未来病史
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2015
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人生算法
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Contaminación
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Coming of the Light
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2015
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If you want to know the future, get a crystal ball. If you want to know how people feel about the future, read a science fiction...
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“Science" is itself one of the greatest utopian illusions ever created by humankind. I am by no means suggesting that we should take the path of antiscience—the utopia offered by science is complicated by the fact that science disguises itself as a value-neutral, objective endeavor. However, we now know that behind the practice of science lie ideological struggles, fights over power and authority, and the profit motive. The history of science is written and rewritten by the allocation and flow of capital, favors given to some projects but not others, and the needs of war.”
― Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
― Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
“At parties, people no longer showed off their new gadgets, jewelry, or hairstyles, but prosthetic cochleas that improved the sense of balance, artificial muscles with augmented contraction characteristics, prosthetic limbs that obeyed mental directions, or updated firmware that enhanced sensory organs. SBT developed a revolutionary substance for mediating between the biological and the electronic worlds. Extracted from the gladii of squids, this modified chitosan complex could convert the biological ion flow that carried brain signals into electric currents that could be deciphered by machines, thereby seamlessly forming a feedback loop between the nervous system and the prosthesis. The invention had expanded the definition of the boundary of the body beyond imagination.”
― Waste Tide
― Waste Tide
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