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barbtrek's review
5.0
Any Science Fiction fans in a reading drought? This book is the remedy you need! This was just what I have been missing in Science Fiction!
I used to love Science Fiction anthologies as a way to discover new authors and I became interested in Chinese Science Fiction after reading The Three Body Problem. But, lately, I have been shying away from the “Best American Science Fiction” and the “Best Science Fiction of the year” books as they seem to be trying too hard to be edgy and “woke” and include very little good, wholesome, entertaining science fiction.
This book had the type of stories that sparked my love of the genre. This book had entertaining, near future stories set in near-Earth orbit, on Mars, on the moons of Jupiter, and on spaceships bound for places unknown. Some moments that were memorable to me (without giving too much away) were the “haunted” space ship, the matrix type virtual reality situation, the spooky “asteroid” field, zombies(?) on Mars, the mirror-world alternate universe, and the alien in trouble—reminiscent of ET.
I thoroughly enjoyed this and am eager to explore more work by the authors featured here.
I used to love Science Fiction anthologies as a way to discover new authors and I became interested in Chinese Science Fiction after reading The Three Body Problem. But, lately, I have been shying away from the “Best American Science Fiction” and the “Best Science Fiction of the year” books as they seem to be trying too hard to be edgy and “woke” and include very little good, wholesome, entertaining science fiction.
This book had the type of stories that sparked my love of the genre. This book had entertaining, near future stories set in near-Earth orbit, on Mars, on the moons of Jupiter, and on spaceships bound for places unknown. Some moments that were memorable to me (without giving too much away) were the “haunted” space ship, the matrix type virtual reality situation, the spooky “asteroid” field, zombies(?) on Mars, the mirror-world alternate universe, and the alien in trouble—reminiscent of ET.
I thoroughly enjoyed this and am eager to explore more work by the authors featured here.
breq's review against another edition
physically cannot force myself to keep reading because of how boring "Shine" is so far
mweis's review against another edition
3.0
*I received an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*
As with most anthologies, entries are hit or miss but I do appreciate the intent behind this collection to bring attention to lesser known authors, both Chinese and otherwise. The only author I had read from before was Bao Shu.
Unfortunately a lot of these were misses for me. Several of the stories felt too long/drawn out so while I might have liked the intent or idea st the center of the story I found myself not caring because of the pacing, and others had too much emphasis on hard science fiction for me. I do wonder how much of that had to do with the translation choices for the Chinese stories.
Standouts for me were On the Ship by Leah Cypess, and Bao Shu’s Doomsday Tour.
As with most anthologies, entries are hit or miss but I do appreciate the intent behind this collection to bring attention to lesser known authors, both Chinese and otherwise. The only author I had read from before was Bao Shu.
Unfortunately a lot of these were misses for me. Several of the stories felt too long/drawn out so while I might have liked the intent or idea st the center of the story I found myself not caring because of the pacing, and others had too much emphasis on hard science fiction for me. I do wonder how much of that had to do with the translation choices for the Chinese stories.
Standouts for me were On the Ship by Leah Cypess, and Bao Shu’s Doomsday Tour.
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