Beyond Liu Cixin: 5 New Translated Chinese SFF Books

Amidst the fractious international battles for cyberspace, there couldn’t be a better time to remind ourselves that SFF and the imagination have no boundaries. The West is now pretty au fait with Liu Cixin, but it’s often the case with world literature that the few writers who first become known to the West are monumentalised as Symbols representing the entire ecosystem of their othered cultures. Whilst they are undoubtedly important touchstones, I’ve always tried to take Anglophone readers beyond that introduction into the vast depths of China’s SFF universe.


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The Pandemic and SFF: Thoughts on the Eastercon21 Panel

Despite Covid restrictions, I returned this year to convention life, at least virtually, as a guest at EasterCon, and in an event driven to digital by a global pandemic, it couldn’t have been more appropriate to talk about how all this has affected science fiction and fantasy works. The hour-long panel featured myself, along with the editor and authors of New Con Press. There was a lot to talk about in the one-hour slot, and with so many of us having lived near hermit like existences for the last few months, personal take-aways from lockdown becoming a central topic for some of the more loquacious guests, and there were so many points that were left unexplored.


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