2023 Xingyun Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• The Red Stone, Jiang Bo (Sichuan Science & Technology Publishing House / Science Fiction World)
• The Apocalypse, Yan Leisheng (New Star Press / Eight Light Minutes)
• The Parallel Mountain Town of Tang Empire, Liang Qingsan (People’s Literature Publishing House / Eight Light Minutes)
• Once Upon a Time in Nanjing, Tianrui Shuofu (China Citic Press)

Best Novella

• “Descartes’ Demon”, Fenxing Chengzi (Nebula Ⅻ)
• “The Girl with a Restrained and Released Life”, Zhou Wen (Non-exist SF 3/22)
• “The Tower”, by Yang Wanqing (Nebula Ⅻ)
• Bian He and the Jade, Dong Xinyuan (SCIFIDEA)

Best Short Story

• “How to Review a Paper Created by Five Senses”, by Shuang Chimu (Harvest Issue 4, 2022)
• “The Stars without Dream”, by Chi Hui (The Stars without Dream)
• “Running Away from Evening Glow”, by A Que (wlkhds.com)
• “A Record of Lost Time”, by Regina Kanyu Wang (Harvest Issue 3, 2022)

Best Non-Fiction

• “A Decade of Science Fiction”, Li Guangyi (Fourty-two Histories)
• The Transformation of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction, Zhan Ling (China Social Sciences)
• “Technology as the Way, Silkpunk as an Antidote”, Jin Xueni (SF Research Newsletter 2/22)
• History of Chinese Science Fiction in the 20th Century, Wu Yan, Jia Liyuan, Ren Dongmei, Xiao Han, Jiang Zhenyu, Wang Yao (Peking University Press)

Best Translated Fiction

• If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light, Kim Cho-Yeol (Korea) and translated by Chun Xi (Sichuan Science & Technology / Science Fiction World)
• The Found and the Lost, Ursula Le Guin and translated by Zhou Huaming, Hu Shaoyan, Regina Kanyu Wang, Chen Qiufan, Hu Xiaoshi, Jiang Bo, Li Te, Yao Renjie, Mu Ming, San Feng (Henan literature & Art / Imaginist)
• “Good Hunting”, Ken Liu and translated by Xue Bai (Good Hunting)
• The Stars are Cold Toys, Sergei Lukyanenko and translated by Xiao Chuzhou (New Star / Eight Light Minutes)

Best New Writer

• Dong Xinyuan
• Lu Hang
• Qi Ran
• Tianrui Shuofu

Best Review

• “The Chaos of Digital World: Thoughts on Writing about Artificial Intelligence – A Review of Martha Wells’ Killer Robots Series”, HeavenDuke (Nebula SF Review 3/22)
• “Lukyanenko: The Interstellar Spiral in the Science Fiction of Soviet Russia”, Hai Ke (Eight Light Minutes Culture 8/22)
• “Contemporary Science Fiction as Oxygen for Scientists’ Brain: A Review of The Pillars of a Great Power”, Yao Lifen (Science Popularization Times 6/24/22)
• “The Four Don’ts and the Three Laws: Philosophical Reflections of the East and the West in Shuang Chimu’s Science Fiction”, Guo Wei (Literature and Art Newspaper 3/28/22)

Winners will be announced May 12, 2023.

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