2024 Xingyun Awards Winners

Best Novel

• WINNER: The City in the Well, Liu Yang (People’s Literature Publishing House)

• Cosmo Wings, Jiang Bo (People’s Literature Publishing House; 8-Light Minutes Culture)
• Gods of the Earth: Return of the Dead, Fenxing Chengzi (Shenzhen Publishing House; Science and Fantasy Growth Foundation)
• The Age of God Making, Yan Xi (Sichuan University Press; Science Fiction World)

Best Novella

• WINNER: “The Fleeting Gravity of Words”, Zhou Wen (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)

• “The Solar System on Set: The Teahouse at the End of the Universe”, Shuang Chimu (Shanghai Literature Issue 4, 2023)
• “The Salt Bridge”, Liang Ling (Lighting up Mars: Collection of Winning Stories from the 6th Lenghu Awards)
• “Our Martians”, Bao Shu (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)

Best Short Story

• WINNER: “Let the White Deer Roam”, Cheng Jingbo (Science Fiction World 11/23)

• “Lake Breezes that Brush Over the Palace of Moon”, Wanxiang Fengnian (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)
• “City of Choice”, Gu Shi (Beijing Literature 07/23)
• “A Window with a View”, Bao Shu (Non-Exist SF 01/24/23)

Best Non-Fiction

• WINNER: Gazing at the Stars: My Personal Encounter with Chinese Science Fiction, Yang Xiao (Sichuan People’s Publishing House; Science Fiction World)

• Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Vol.1-Vol.3, Yang Feng, ed. (Chengdu Times Publishing House; 8-Light Minutes Culture)
• “Impressions of Chinese SF Practitioners on Foreign SF Culture: A Brief Analysis of the History of Introducing Foreign SF Culture”, RiverFlow (Zero-Gravity SF #12)
• Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction, Luo Xiaoming (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House)

Best Translated Fiction

• WINNER: Babel, R.F. Kuang, translated by Chen Yang (CITIC)

• SF Soul: Autobiography of Komatsu Sakyo, Komatsu Sakyo, translated by Meng Qingshu (Sichuan Science & Technology; Science Fiction World)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi, translated by Gen Hui (New Star)
• Escape from the Future, Kobayashi Yasumi, translated by Ding Dingchong (Yilin)

Best New Writer

• WINNER: Lu Hang

• Wang Cencen
• Qi Ran
• Wang Xiaohai

No award was given in the Best Review category.

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