What is "Chinese New Science Fiction"? Reader Science Fiction Literature Award Reveals 300000 RMB Bonus Belongs to Literature | Reader | Bonus

Release time:Apr 15, 2024 02:07 AM

On August 19th, as one of the events at the Shanghai Book Fair, the 3rd Reader Science Fiction Literature Award held an award ceremony, featuring 34 award-winning works including Qi Ran's "Laplace's Triumph", Ju Chu's "If Emotions Can Sell", and Mo Yao's "Back to Childhood", showcasing the charm of China's cutting-edge science fiction.

Yan Feng, a three time judge and professor at Fudan University, said, "The Reader Science Fiction Award is an award aimed at teenagers, the next generation, and science fiction enthusiasts. It is not a recognition of existing creative achievements, but a platform for young people to showcase their talents, open up their minds, and promote the development of science fiction literature in the future."


What is "Chinese New Science Fiction"? Reader Science Fiction Literature Award Reveals 300000 RMB Bonus Belongs to Literature | Reader | Bonus

2023 is known as the "year of science fiction", with "The Wandering Earth 2" and "The Three Body Problem" being popular and airing one after another. The science fiction literary film "The Universe Exploration Editorial Department" has emerged as a dark horse, and ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool driven by artificial intelligence technology, has been updated and upgraded several times. The Hollywood screenwriters' strike against AI has raised concerns about the ethical issues between technological development and original copyright creation.

"ChatGPT takes language issues to the extreme," Yan Feng said. "It turns everything into language, and language generates everything. Everyone's knowledge domain is limited, and if ChatGPT helps us brainstorm and find writing materials, we can focus more on doing more creative work, which is a kind of coercion."


What is "Chinese New Science Fiction"? Reader Science Fiction Literature Award Reveals 300000 RMB Bonus Belongs to Literature | Reader | Bonus

Professor Dai Jinhua from Peking University places greater emphasis on human subjectivity, sharing her experience of reading entries from the Reader Science Fiction Literature Award. "I can feel the rich emotions of contemporary young people from them, which ChatGPT cannot achieve."

The Reader Science Fiction Literature Award was launched in 2021. The third edition of the award was jointly organized by Reader Culture and Zhihu, with a prize of 300000 yuan, free face-to-face master courses, publishing, and film and television adaptations as incentive measures to attract new generation creators to participate. The outstanding works of each Reader Science Fiction Literature Award are published under the name "Chinese New Science Fiction". What is "Chinese New Science Fiction"? Among the entries this year, works that combine traditional cultural heritage and the imaginative characteristics of science fiction literature have been praised by the judges. More and more young science fiction creators are no longer satisfied with paying tribute to and learning from the discourse system of foreign science fiction literature, but are practicing Chinese cultural expression in the dimension of science fiction, such as creating in classical Chinese and adapting mythological characters in "The Jade Dragon Song", and combining traditional and science fiction in "Wu Song Fighting the Tiger".


What is "Chinese New Science Fiction"? Reader Science Fiction Literature Award Reveals 300000 RMB Bonus Belongs to Literature | Reader | Bonus
The documentary "Elephant Journey" will be released in 2024, and the migration journey of wild elephants in Yunnan will be brought to IMAX screen company | Production | Elephant Journey
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