"2023 Hugo Award for Best Short Novella Winning Writer Hai Xuan
The first science fiction collection
The "ghost shadow" that appeared in the Palace Museum was the genius painter of the Northern Song Dynasty's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"?
Why does a bizarre murder case involve the legend of "blood drops" in the Yongzheng Dynasty hundreds of years ago?
The mysterious Chinese dragon has become the source of inspiration for the invention and competition of Chinese and foreign airships?

This book includes ten short and medium-length works by the 2023 Hugo Award winner Hai Xuan, including the Hugo Award for Best Short Story "Time and Space Painter", the Galaxy Award Best Short Story Nomination Award "Jiang Zhifu", the Cold Lake Award novella "Walking Jiao", as well as "The Tower of Exhaustion" and "Far North" that focus on cultural relics protection and climate issues. The author traces the history of China through a magnificent imagination, combines the treacherous historical facts with modern science, links the distant future with ancient traditions, and thinks about the infinite possibilities of mankind, civilization and the future in the imagination and discussion of history and fantasy.
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