Sci-fi’s big in China
The Globe and Mail writes about Canadian science fiction author Robert J Sawyer and the impact of his books in China.
“Chinese readers prefer hard science-fiction, with real science rigorously extrapolated,” he observed, and “and they’re partial to optimistic views of the future.” In fact, “the domestic science-fiction is very much at the stage science-fiction was in the 1950s in the United States - lots of spaceships, robots and aliens.”