★★★★★ RELEASED OUT NOW! 368 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Hao Jingfang Publisher AdAstra
Chinese science fiction is having a high-profile moment in the sun right now, thanks to the new Netflix adaptation of Cixin Lui’s first contact saga The Three-Body Problem. So it’s an interesting time for Hugo Award-winning Chinese SF author Hao Jingfang’s second novel to arrive, as it takes a very different approach to tackling contact with an alien race.