Chinese Sci-Fi

Does somebody know good chinese Sci-Fi writers? I've read "The Three-Body Problem," by Liu Cixin, and now want to read his "The Dark Forest", and "Death's End", but I'd also like to get to know more authors like him – who writes with referenses to chinese culture and history, and whose Sci-Fi is really hard. Any suggestions?

>>2185 Lainchan is pretty small to find something this niche. Ken Liu is the only other name that came up multiple times when I searched. You might have better luck on Tianya or similar Chinese site.

The main issue is that not many Chinese books get translated. I tried to find Chinese SciFi after reading TBP too. Next to none are really translated to English.

I really had a bad time reading Liu Cixin. Hated his writing style, plot constructions, dialogue, you name it. Thought it might have been the translation but I found the same thing in his short stories, too, and have liked other stuff by Ken Liu. /subjectiverant Anyway, I tried to dig a little deeper into Chinese scifi, and like you've discovered it's hard to come by. Hopefully y'all dig some of the stuff I turned up. Han Song is pretty good, but it seems like his best work is still untranslated. Hopefully with all the talk of a "Golden age of Chinese Sci-Fi" we might see some more interest in him. http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/han_08_15/ https://io9.gizmodo.com/5442944/a-martian-in-tibet (You can find the whole Apex World SF book on libgen, and I recommend it.) Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years has gotten a lot of hype, though I haven't read it yet. It looks like it will satisfy your cravings for SF embedded in Chinese culture, but it's definitely more "soft" than "hard". Can Xue is a really cool/weird/awesome author, although not really sci-fi (unless you count ~~conceptual~~). I just couldn't let the opportunity go past to bring her up: http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/can-xue-c68 http://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/vertical-motion/ Ken Liu is basically the Chinese SF translator-evangelist right now, so following his trail might be fruitful, I don't know. Here's one that he translated that I really enjoyed: http://uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/ There are a few others but I can't find links to them. Browse around both English sci-fi sites (like Uncanny, Apex, Clarkesworld, etc) as well as sites like Asymptote, Words w/o Borders (lit in translation) and Paper Republic (Chinese lit in translation). You might turn up some gems -- please post them back here if you do! I'm still very keen to read everything I can from Chinese sci-fi. P.S. ... I don't read Chinese, so I don't browse the original market and can only comment on what I've found in translation. But it seems like Chinese sci-fi doesn't tend towards "hardness" in the same way that Anglo does. I would be very surprised (and thrilled!) to find a Sino-Greg Egan or similar, but magical/uncanny elements seem always to be creeping in. This isn't a bad thing, just an observation.