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[profeminist]

Chinese sci-fi writer beats Stephen King for top fiction prize

Hao Jingfang wins Hugo award with dark story of social inequality and injustice in Beijing

“A futuristic tale of urban life in Beijing has won a Chinese novelist a top international prize for science fiction, beating out heavyweight Stephen King for the honour.

Hao Jingfang, 32, won the Hugo Award for best novelette with Folding Beijing, a year after another Chinese writer, Liu Cixin, won the best novel prize for The Three-Body Problem, Xinhua reported on the weekend.

Receiving her award in Kansas City, Missouri, Hao said she was not surprised she had won but had also been prepared to lose.

“In Folding Beijing, I have raised a possibility for the future and how we face the challenges of automated production, technological advances, unemployment and economic stagnation,” she said.

Hao said her book offered a solution to those challenges, but she hoped the situations she described would not become reality.

Hao is from Tianjin, and graduated with a physics degree from Tsinghua University in 2006.

The Hugo Awards, established in 1953, are regarded as the highest honour in science fiction and fantasy. They are named after Hugo Gernsback who was the founder of the American science fiction magazineAmazing Stories.”

Read the full piece here

Congratulations Hao Jingfang!

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You can read Hao Jingfang’s Hugo prize-winning novelette Folding Beijing here at Uncanny Magazine

[remindie]

[dniudsnf]

I am all for bookstore dates take me there and let’s wander hand in hand

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

bisexual people aren’t more likely to cheat in relationships but we are more likely to cheat at cards, while lesbians are most likely to cheat at jenga, and genderqueer people often cheat at mario kart

[moulinluge]

how the fuck do you cheat at jenga

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

ask a lesbian

[triplepoints]

[tempusfuckingfugit-deactivated2]

this is never not funny

[a-lesbian-not-a-unicorn2349]

I will repost every time

[srsfunny]

[backdoorteenmom]

[hussyknee]

I love how they left out the part about them giving out the lesbian couple’s personal information to send them death threats, running them out of their home, and encouraging other fundies to petition to have their children taken away. **examines fingernails**

Also the fact that they raised half million dollars from other raging homophobes to fund this bigotry. I hope the dickholes lose the shirts off their backs and have to live out of a van. But that’s too much to hope for.

[lesbianredhood]

I just wanna add that the lesbian couple were getting married because their mutual friend had just died of cancer and they were adopting her two daughters… and that the death threats were so bad that they had to quit their jobs and move. it’s never just about a cake. it’s about the precedent you set when you allow ppl to discriminate. it’s about all the disgusting bigots that crawl out of the woodwork when they feel like they have the right to hate.

[introvertedbookworm24]

Books & Cupcakes August Photo Challenge || 18 || Favourite Ending

[themaninthegreenshirt]

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” Mark Twain

[thebookbasics]

It’s so disappointing when you absolutely love a book and you decide to read another by the same author and it doesn’t meet your expectations. It’s like the whole downloading a bands discography and only liking one song thing.

[lorrang]

y'all ever read a book so good you actually miss it

[thecornercoffeeshop]

One of few pictures I have from the inside of this store.

[mellifluousbookshelf]

Bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.

Jen Campbell (via mellifluousbookshelf)

[siminiblocker]

Uppercase planner December illustration~

[beautifulbookland]

I Only Wanted to Check the Page Count but Now I’ve Spoiled the Whole Book for Myself - a heartbreaking memoir by me

[cloaga]

i love that charles dickens got paid by the word. like i cant even be mad when he’s boring and long-winded bc i would do xactly the same??? i wouldnt use contractions or colours at all. want to say the word red? too bad. we r now only using “the colour of freshly-spilled blood on snow; the hue of the horizon when the sun sets over the deserts of sub-saharan Africa” BOOM guess who can afford 2 eat now: me and my boi dickens 

[faewithoutconsequence]

What I love about Alexandre Dumas, in contrast, is he got paid by the line. So it’s not really wordy, it more like 80% dialogue which makes it sound pretty modern but also ends up like-

“Where are we going now?”

“We are going to the city.”

“Which city?”

“Paris.”

“We are going to Paris?”

“Yes.”

[laissezferre]

# can you imagine the kind of extended torture we would have been subject to if victor hugo had been paid by the pun (via vlajean)

[pastelparrotlet]

I hate when a book is REALLY good but the writing is dense and you need complete concentration to understand it all so every time your mind wanders you have to go back and reread the last paragraph because you missed something.

[my-paper-heart]

is it possible to have a raging case of bookshelf envy?

[bookoisseur]

Yes. Yes it is.