On April 28, the second Science Fiction Planet Awards were presented in Beijing. This award is the first international comprehensive science fiction award independently created by China. It was initiated and founded by famous science fiction writers Wang Jinkang and Liu Cixin. The sci-fi works that have received widespread attention in the past year are all on the list.
" The Wandering Earth 2" and " Three Body " won the Best Science Fiction Movie and Best Science Fiction Series Awards respectively. The Best Science Fiction Literature Awards were awarded to the short story "Choose a City" and the novella "Ours" respectively. The Martian" and the novel "We Live in Nanjing". In recent years, science fiction themes have attracted widespread attention and attracted many new generation creative forces. The "White Paper on Chinese Science Fiction Internet Literature (2022)" released by the China Science Fiction Research Institute of Sichuan University shows that on the Internet, an activity that naturally has a "younger" label In the field, "post-95s" and "post-00s" are rapidly entering the production and dissemination process of science fiction online literature, creating a batch of science fiction works with both high quality and high popularity.
△First from left: Tianrui Shuofu, the author of the Science Fiction Planet Award for Best Science Fiction Novel "We Live in Nanjing"
Among the award-winning works, "We Live in Nanjing" is the post-95s Internet writer "Tianrui Shuofu" This work has been ranked first on the Qidian Reading bestseller list for a long time since it was serialized. The author of another popular science fiction work, "Starting from Gu Huotiao", is also born in 1995. The outstanding quality of
has also allowed more and more online works to be recognized by mainstream science fiction literature awards. "We Live in Nanjing" has won two Chinese science fiction literature awards, the Galaxy Award and the Nebula Award, and the hard-core science fiction "Under Deep Space" and suspense science fiction "My Healing Game" also won the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature and Best Original Book respectively. The science fiction track has also attracted the attempts of some well-known authors. Last year, "Foxtail's Pen" became popular on the Internet with "The Strange Fairy", and the latest serial work "Glitch Utopia" is a science fiction theme.
The vigorous development of literary creation has also brought more possibilities to the innovation of science fiction themes. The "2023 Science Fiction Literature IP Adaptation Value Potential List" released by the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology shows that cross-genre creation has become a new trend in the science fiction circuit, with "science fiction + suspense" and "science fiction + growth" being particularly prominent, and "science fiction + adventure" , "Science Fiction + Emotion" followed closely. "Genius Club", which has topped the new book list since its serialization in early 2024, tells the story of a male protagonist who has the same dream and wakes up at the same time every day, how to discover the secrets of time, space and civilization, and embark on a journey to save the world. The Road combines elements of science fiction and suspense. The complete "Doomsday Paradise" not only has the grand world view usually seen in science fiction works, but also creates a strong and gentle female image. It was selected into the list of online novels in China's Internet Literature Influence List (2023).
Cross-genre creation not only brings more fresh elements to science fiction themes, but also provides greater room for subsequent adaptations. At the same time, the development of China's film and television industry and the success of works such as "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Wandering Earth" are accelerating the film and television adaptation of science fiction works. A few days ago, Lu Yang, the director of " Assassination of Novelist " and " Embroidered Spring Knife ", announced on social media that he will direct a science fiction film of the same name as the novel "We Live in Nanjing". The prosperity of science fiction creation and the success of film and television works of science fiction indicate that China's science fiction industry will bring new opportunities and development.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Ouyang Liedan
