Posts Categorized: Sci-Fi

Chen Qiufan – Waste Tide – Part II

In this episode, Part Two of our two part series on Chen Qiufan’s first novel, Rob and Lee try to pivot away from the narrower discussions of what happens in the novel and more on a broader discussion of its place in Chinese Science Fiction. Whether or not they succeed in doing that…well, we’ll let […]

Chen Qiufan – Waste Tide – Part 1

This is part one in a two part series on the novel called Wast Tide. This is Chen Qiufan’s first novel, its a science-fiction novel that touches on environmentalism and transhumanism. Join Rob and Lee as they struggle with this novel .

It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem

How would the world’s population function if it knew the end was coming…in 400 years? What would your view of humanity be if everyone you loved had been brutally taken from you by a tyrannical regime? These are the two structuring questions for the Hugo and Nebula-award winning novel The Three-Body Problem by China’s greatest […]