Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
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Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
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#2it's not fiction, but reality
Re: Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
#3it's not fiction, but reality
A universal rendering of the eternal struggle of human race.
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#4Here's the Chinese if anybody is interested in attempting to read in the original language.
Re: Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
#5Here's the Chinese if anybody is interested in attempting to read in the original language. https://read.douban.com/reader/ebook/20769128/
Thanks! Anyone out there know if there is a way to read this in traditional (as opposed to simplified) Chinese?
Re: Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
#6Here's the Chinese if anybody is interested in attempting to read in the original language. https://read.douban.com/reader/ebook/20769128/
Thanks! Anyone out there know if there is a way to read this in traditional (as opposed to simplified) Chinese?
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#7--Spoiler alert---
After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just fabricated to make the plot more emotional but never really fit the common sense of, at least to me, the development of technology.
I certainly hope this whole Chinese writer winning an award wasn't some political move to attract attention.
Re: Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
#8--Spoiler alert--- After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just…
Oh the irony, you really should have finished reading before commenting, as this is very explicitly addressed in the story. It could be argued that this is exactly what makes it realistic or at least provides verisimilitude.
Re: Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
#9--Spoiler alert--- After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just…
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Re: Folding Beijing – 2016 Hugo Best Novelette
#10--Spoiler alert--- After reading the first chapter and beginning of the second chapter, to me, it seems not a good piece at all. They had the technology of building a folding city for god sake, yet the protagonist is doing some heavy labor dealing with the city's trash. You would imagine such work would long have been automated. Actually, this always has been a problem when I read sci-fi story, some setting are just…
Oh the irony, you really should have finished reading before commenting, as this is very explicitly addressed in the story. It could be argued that this is exactly what makes it realistic or at least provides verisimilitude.
Okay. I just finished reading the whole thing. Still a lot of the things don't add up. A lot of the things don't feel right. I can't put it into exact word. But in the link provided by rabboRubble (https://read.douban.com/reader/ebook/20769128/), it seems that most reasonable Chinese sci-fi readers think the story is lame if you read the top review. And that's about how I feel.
--Spoiler Alert--
The whole story actually doesn't seem to have anything to do with sci-fi at all. The plot is evolving around a man delivering letter? What? Is it in Victorian or is it in the future? All sci-fi elements are just stuffed in there and has no actual meat. I think for a good sci-fi, the author should first think through what technology exists in that world and then develop story that is confined to the setting. Not like this story which sci-fi only served as some convenient facts for author to exploit reader's emotion.
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And wow... thanks for all the down votes, guys. Hope all you've down voted read the whole folding BJ already.