Invisible Planets

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1. jeremiahbuckleyFeb 2024
   You might like Invisible Planets, Chinese sci-fi short stories compilation. I’ve read a few of them; Folding Beijing is pretty great.
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2. mrtedbearNov 2021
   Standouts for me were Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), Exhalation (Ted Chiang), Invisible Planets (an anthology of Chinese sci-fi short stories, translated by Ken Liu) and Longitude (Dava Sobel).

   I also finally got around to reading Cixin Liu's Three Body series, and although not perfect, there's so many interesting ideas in them.

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3. ArtWombAug 2021
   Terminal Boredom, Izumi Suzuki

   Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Ken Liu

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4. Barrin92Jul 2020
   Like the list, big fan of Borges, Egan and Chiang, but very surprised to see no Lem. He has to be on a list like that. A Perfect Vacuum is brilliant and the Cyberiad is a great candidate as well.

   Another thing I'm surprised to not see on the list is Chinese short-story sci-fi, there's been a lot of great stuff coming out of the country in recent years much of it translated by Ken Liu.

   Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang is great and free to read[1], there's The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin whose Three Body books got a lot of attention, and there's another collection called Invisible Planets, which has a few good stories by Chen Qiufan. He's also written a very good novel called Waste Tide.

   [1]https://uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/

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5. bb101Jan 2019
   What's the end game for China, and indeed the world? One dystopian preview is Ma Boyong's award winning short story "City of Silence", published as part of Ken Liu's Invisible Planets.

   One can also read it at https://web.archive.org/web/20120221185906/http://worldsf.wo... and https://web.archive.org/web/20120229091732/http://worldsf.wo...

   Edit: added part 2.

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