The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang
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Hardback
h208 x 135mm - 400pg
8 Mar 2022 US
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9781250768919
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From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter' s day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection.
Essential reading for anyone interested in a fuller picture of Chinese fiction as a whole. --Booklist, starred review With this impressive anthology, Chen and Wang bring together the first English translations of 17 Chinese-language stories by female and nonbinary writers. . . . Offers much to chew on. --Publishers WeeklyAn important anthology showcasing compelling voices and perspectives in science fiction and fantasy. --Library Journal
Storycom is dedicated to discovering and commercializing excellent stories, especially science fiction and fantasy. Several of Storycom' s features or short films have been screened or awarded in various international film festivals. Yu Chen, Editor, has been working on the publication of science fiction and fantasy for almost ten years. She has planned and established an SFF column "Tales from Nowhere," organized and participated a number of SFF forums, conventions, workshops and conferences, and published more than ten SFF books. Regina Kanyu Wang, Editor, is a bilingual writer from Shanghai who writes both in Chinese and English. She has won the SF Comet international short story competition and multiple Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF. Her stories can be found in various magazines and anthologies.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781250768919
Published: 8 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 208mm
Width: 135mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 400

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