On May 18, the 2024 Science Fiction Nebula Celebration was held at the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, the venue for the 81st World Science Fiction Conference last year. The 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards were announced at the same time.
Liu Yang's "City in the Well" won the gold medal for novels; Zhou Wen's "Language of Weightlessness" won the gold medal for novellas; Cheng Jingbo's "Let the White Deer Go" won the gold medal for short stories; [U.S.] "Babel" written by Kuang Lingxiu and translated by Chen Yang "Tower" won the gold medal for translation works; Yang Xiao's "Looking at the Starry Sky: Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" won the gold medal for non-fiction works; Lu Hang won the 2021-2023 Rising Star Gold Award; Yangtze Children's Publishing House (Group) Co., Ltd., Luzhou Laojiao Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. won the 2023 Special Contribution Award.
Liu Yang (middle) won the Gold Medal for Novel for "City in the Well"
After recommendation, preliminary selection and re-selection by a recommendation committee composed of 146 outstanding representatives of science fiction researchers, creators, practitioners and enthusiasts, the final selection was made by The review committee, chaired by Song Mingwei and other experts, made the final selection and selected the gold and silver award winners for seven major awards from 424 candidate works and candidates.
Among them, the annual novel gold medal was won by "City in the Well" by Liu Yang, a representative writer of the new generation of Chinese science fiction and winner of the 9th, 10th and 12th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards and the first Chinese Science Fiction Film Rough Stone Award. Dong Renwei, founder of the
Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, said: "In 2018, Liu Yang launched his first full-length science fiction novel "Orphans of Mars", and we paid full attention to it. I participated in the seminar on the work "Orphans of Mars" held by Southern University of Science and Technology, and I thought at that time , this is a masterpiece that inherits Liu Cixin's neoclassical science fiction style. This work won the Silver Award for the 10th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award and the First Chinese Science Fiction Film Rough Stone Award. "City in the Well" continues "Orphans of Mars". The style has been deepened in the core science fiction concept, the writing is more beautiful, and the literary quality is even greater. Liu Yang has produced many excellent works. He is a young writer with great potential to make breakthroughs in the post-Liu Cixin era. "
won the 14th Prize last year. Sci-fi writer Zhou Wen, who won the gold medal for the novella at the 2016 Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards, once again won the gold medal for the novella with "The Language of Weightlessness". Cheng Jingbo, a representative writer of the newer generation of Chinese science fiction, won the annual short story gold award for "Let the White Deer Go". This is the second time she has won the gold medal for short stories after the first one, and it is also the fourth time she has won the gold medal in the novel category of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award.
Cheng Jingbo (second from right) won the gold medal for short story "Let the White Deer Go"
"Looking Up at the Stars: Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" by Yang Xiao, former president of "Science Fiction World" magazine, won the gold medal for the annual non-fiction work. Chinese science fiction rising star writer Lu Hang finally won the Rising Star Gold Award for 2021-2023 after winning the Silver Rising Star Award for 2020-2022. The three science fiction novels that won the Silver Award for Longform are also groundbreaking and innovative works. Among them are "The Age of Gods" by the famous science fiction writer Yan Xi, "Sky Sail" by Jiang Bo, one of the new generation standard bearers of Chinese science fiction, and "Gods of Earth: Return of the Dead" by rising Chinese science fiction writer Fractal Chengzi. It is worth mentioning that Yan Xi and Fractal Orange are both shortlisted for the first time. In addition, the silver medal winners for the novella and short story are Baoshu, Diptera, Liang Ling, Gu Shi, and Wanxiang Fengnian; the rising star silver medal winners are Qi Ran, Wang Cencen, and Wang Xiaohai; and the fine art award winners, Winners of the Youth Science Fiction Essay Contest, this group of backbone and rising star authors of Chinese science fiction have continuously produced high-quality works, strongly supporting the development of Chinese modern science fiction in the new era.
Lu Hang (middle) won the 2021-2023 Rising Star Gold Award
This year's Novel Gold Award Liu Yang's "City in the Well" was written by Wu Yan, founder of the Nebula Award and chairman of the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award Organizing Committee, and Luzhou Lao Presented by Chen Wen, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Jiao Group Co., Ltd.
Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award is a public welfare organization co-founded in 2010 by global Chinese science fiction enthusiast volunteers headed by three founders: Dong Renwei, a famous Chinese science fiction activist, Yao Haijun, a famous science fiction publisher, and Professor Wu Yan, a famous science fiction scholar and writer. Awards. At the
celebration, the 15th anniversary commemoration of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award was held. The Nebula Award Organizing Committee awarded the "Nebula 15th" commemorative medal to 167 individuals with outstanding contributions.The three founders, Dong Renwei, Yao Haijun, and Wu Yan, and the three main supporters, Yao Yujiang, Gan Weikang, and Shi Yi, recalled the ups and downs of the past fifteen years at the Nebula Round Table. 36 authors who received the gold medal of commemorative medals from the organizing committee signed and presented "Nebula Fifteen" commemorative albums to 200 science fiction fans at the Jingrong Lake in the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum. The commemorative book contains articles by 90 science fiction people who fondly recall and look forward to the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award.
The opening ceremony of the 15th anniversary celebration of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award
The book "History of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award" published by Yangtze Children's Publishing House was also launched at the conference. The book will bring Chinese science fiction people around the world to the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award. Fifteen years of collective memories have been compiled into a volume. This is a history of struggle and inspiration of a group of ordinary Chinese idealists who consciously contributed to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
New book "History of the Nebula Award for Chinese Science Fiction" released
Liu Cixin, a leading figure in Chinese science fiction and one of the Four Heavenly Kings, issued an article to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Nebula Award for Chinese Science Fiction. He said: "Since the establishment of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, hundreds of science fiction writers have won the award. Many young rising stars of science fiction literature have embarked on a broader creative path, paving the way for Chinese science fiction to move into the future. Chinese Science Fiction This year marks the 15th Nebula Award. Over the past ten years, the Nebula Award has grown into a recognized and authoritative award in the Chinese science fiction community. At the
celebration, a conference to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chinese science fiction was also held. In 1904, Huang Jiang Diaosou's "Moon Colony Novel" was serialized in Shanghai's "Xiu Xiang Novel" magazine, with a total of 35 chapters, to be continued, and 130,000 words. The serialization was discontinued in 1905. So far, most scholars believe that 1904 is the first year of Chinese original science fiction novels (science novels). Two decades later, in 2024, it will be the 120th anniversary of the birth of original Chinese science fiction novels (science novels). Chengdu Time Illusion Company organized a call for essays for the continuation of the "Moon Colony Novel". Two generations of science fiction writers, two decades apart, used the same characters and the same story frame to imagine mankind's conquest of the moon.
After three levels of selection, the winning essays were announced. The sequel by emerging science fiction writer Shi Yuang won the Gold Award, the sequel by famous science fiction writers Ma Chuansi and Yang Guiwan won the Silver Award, and the sequel by Yin Daiqun, Transparent Rice, Zhang Jiafeng, Qian Mu Sanwen (Japan) and others won the Finalist Award.
Professor Wu Yan of Southern University of Science and Technology gave a commemorative keynote speech and awarded awards for the special essay competition for the continuation of "Moon Colony Novel".
Wu Yan gave a commemorative keynote speech
At the subsequent 2024 Science Fiction Summit Forum, Zhou Tao, a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, gave a keynote speech on the frontiers and practices of large models; the round table discussed the "new quality imagination" of science fiction stars and science fiction art. Creation faces topics such as the challenges of current technological development; new books such as the collection of winning works of the 13th and 14th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards and the selection of Supernova Universe Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award Rising Star Award winners were released and promoted.
Roundtable dialogue
2024 Science Fiction Nebula Celebration is hosted by Time Illusion and Hainan One-day Vision, hosted by Hainan One-day Vision, Chengdu Pidu District Science and Technology Association (Science Fiction Center), Chengdu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base Party Working Committee Management Committee, It is supported by Chengdu Kexincheng Investment Development Co., Ltd. and Chengdu Runke City Management Services Co., Ltd., with Guojiao 1573 as the chief strategic partner.
On May 18, the 2024 Science Fiction Nebula Celebration was held at the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum, the venue for the 81st World Science Fiction Conference last year. The 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards were announced at the same time.
Liu Yang's "City in the Well" won the gold medal for novels; Zhou Wen's "Language of Weightlessness" won the gold medal for novellas; Cheng Jingbo's "Let the White Deer Go" won the gold medal for short stories; [U.S.] "Babel" written by Kuang Lingxiu and translated by Chen Yang "Tower" won the gold medal for translation works; Yang Xiao's "Looking at the Starry Sky: Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" won the gold medal for non-fiction works; Lu Hang won the 2021-2023 Rising Star Gold Award; Yangtze Children's Publishing House (Group) Co., Ltd., Luzhou Laojiao Co., Ltd. Co., Ltd. won the 2023 Special Contribution Award.
Liu Yang (middle) won the Gold Medal for Novel for "City in the Well"
After recommendation, preliminary selection and re-selection by a recommendation committee composed of 146 outstanding representatives of science fiction researchers, creators, practitioners and enthusiasts, the final selection was made by The review committee, chaired by Song Mingwei and other experts, made the final selection and selected the gold and silver award winners for seven major awards from 424 candidate works and candidates.
Among them, the annual novel gold medal was won by "City in the Well" by Liu Yang, a representative writer of the new generation of Chinese science fiction and winner of the 9th, 10th and 12th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards and the first Chinese Science Fiction Film Rough Stone Award. Dong Renwei, founder of the
Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, said: "In 2018, Liu Yang launched his first full-length science fiction novel "Orphans of Mars", and we paid full attention to it. I participated in the seminar on the work "Orphans of Mars" held by Southern University of Science and Technology, and I thought at that time , this is a masterpiece that inherits Liu Cixin's neoclassical science fiction style. This work won the Silver Award for the 10th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award and the First Chinese Science Fiction Film Rough Stone Award. "City in the Well" continues "Orphans of Mars". The style has been deepened in the core science fiction concept, the writing is more beautiful, and the literary quality is even greater. Liu Yang has produced many excellent works. He is a young writer with great potential to make breakthroughs in the post-Liu Cixin era. "
won the 14th Prize last year. Sci-fi writer Zhou Wen, who won the gold medal for the novella at the 2016 Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards, once again won the gold medal for the novella with "The Language of Weightlessness". Cheng Jingbo, a representative writer of the newer generation of Chinese science fiction, won the annual short story gold award for "Let the White Deer Go". This is the second time she has won the gold medal for short stories after the first one, and it is also the fourth time she has won the gold medal in the novel category of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award.
Cheng Jingbo (second from right) won the gold medal for short story "Let the White Deer Go"
"Looking Up at the Stars: Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" by Yang Xiao, former president of "Science Fiction World" magazine, won the gold medal for the annual non-fiction work. Chinese science fiction rising star writer Lu Hang finally won the Rising Star Gold Award for 2021-2023 after winning the Silver Rising Star Award for 2020-2022. The three science fiction novels that won the Silver Award for Longform are also groundbreaking and innovative works. Among them are "The Age of Gods" by the famous science fiction writer Yan Xi, "Sky Sail" by Jiang Bo, one of the new generation standard bearers of Chinese science fiction, and "Gods of Earth: Return of the Dead" by rising Chinese science fiction writer Fractal Chengzi. It is worth mentioning that Yan Xi and Fractal Orange are both shortlisted for the first time. In addition, the silver medal winners for the novella and short story are Baoshu, Diptera, Liang Ling, Gu Shi, and Wanxiang Fengnian; the rising star silver medal winners are Qi Ran, Wang Cencen, and Wang Xiaohai; and the fine art award winners, Winners of the Youth Science Fiction Essay Contest, this group of backbone and rising star authors of Chinese science fiction have continuously produced high-quality works, strongly supporting the development of Chinese modern science fiction in the new era.
Lu Hang (middle) won the 2021-2023 Rising Star Gold Award
This year's Novel Gold Award Liu Yang's "City in the Well" was written by Wu Yan, founder of the Nebula Award and chairman of the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award Organizing Committee, and Luzhou Lao Presented by Chen Wen, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Jiao Group Co., Ltd.
Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award is a public welfare organization co-founded in 2010 by global Chinese science fiction enthusiast volunteers headed by three founders: Dong Renwei, a famous Chinese science fiction activist, Yao Haijun, a famous science fiction publisher, and Professor Wu Yan, a famous science fiction scholar and writer. Awards. At the
celebration, the 15th anniversary commemoration of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award was held. The Nebula Award Organizing Committee awarded the "Nebula 15th" commemorative medal to 167 individuals with outstanding contributions.The three founders, Dong Renwei, Yao Haijun, and Wu Yan, and the three main supporters, Yao Yujiang, Gan Weikang, and Shi Yi, recalled the ups and downs of the past fifteen years at the Nebula Round Table. 36 authors who received the gold medal of commemorative medals from the organizing committee signed and presented "Nebula Fifteen" commemorative albums to 200 science fiction fans at the Jingrong Lake in the Chengdu Science Fiction Museum. The commemorative book contains articles by 90 science fiction people who fondly recall and look forward to the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award.
The opening ceremony of the 15th anniversary celebration of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award
The book "History of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award" published by Yangtze Children's Publishing House was also launched at the conference. The book will bring Chinese science fiction people around the world to the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award. Fifteen years of collective memories have been compiled into a volume. This is a history of struggle and inspiration of a group of ordinary Chinese idealists who consciously contributed to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
New book "History of the Nebula Award for Chinese Science Fiction" released
Liu Cixin, a leading figure in Chinese science fiction and one of the Four Heavenly Kings, issued an article to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Nebula Award for Chinese Science Fiction. He said: "Since the establishment of the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, hundreds of science fiction writers have won the award. Many young rising stars of science fiction literature have embarked on a broader creative path, paving the way for Chinese science fiction to move into the future. Chinese Science Fiction This year marks the 15th Nebula Award. Over the past ten years, the Nebula Award has grown into a recognized and authoritative award in the Chinese science fiction community. At the
celebration, a conference to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chinese science fiction was also held. In 1904, Huang Jiang Diaosou's "Moon Colony Novel" was serialized in Shanghai's "Xiu Xiang Novel" magazine, with a total of 35 chapters, to be continued, and 130,000 words. The serialization was discontinued in 1905. So far, most scholars believe that 1904 is the first year of Chinese original science fiction novels (science novels). Two decades later, in 2024, it will be the 120th anniversary of the birth of original Chinese science fiction novels (science novels). Chengdu Time Illusion Company organized a call for essays for the continuation of the "Moon Colony Novel". Two generations of science fiction writers, two decades apart, used the same characters and the same story frame to imagine mankind's conquest of the moon.
After three levels of selection, the winning essays were announced. The sequel by emerging science fiction writer Shi Yuang won the Gold Award, the sequel by famous science fiction writers Ma Chuansi and Yang Guiwan won the Silver Award, and the sequel by Yin Daiqun, Transparent Rice, Zhang Jiafeng, Qian Mu Sanwen (Japan) and others won the Finalist Award.
Professor Wu Yan of Southern University of Science and Technology gave a commemorative keynote speech and awarded awards for the special essay competition for the continuation of "Moon Colony Novel".
Wu Yan gave a commemorative keynote speech
At the subsequent 2024 Science Fiction Summit Forum, Zhou Tao, a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, gave a keynote speech on the frontiers and practices of large models; the round table discussed the "new quality imagination" of science fiction stars and science fiction art. Creation faces topics such as the challenges of current technological development; new books such as the collection of winning works of the 13th and 14th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards and the selection of Supernova Universe Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award Rising Star Award winners were released and promoted.
Roundtable dialogue
2024 Science Fiction Nebula Celebration is hosted by Time Illusion and Hainan One-day Vision, hosted by Hainan One-day Vision, Chengdu Pidu District Science and Technology Association (Science Fiction Center), Chengdu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base Party Working Committee Management Committee, It is supported by Chengdu Kexincheng Investment Development Co., Ltd. and Chengdu Runke City Management Services Co., Ltd., with Guojiao 1573 as the chief strategic partner.
Attached:
List of winners of the 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award
2023 Novel
Gold Award: "City in the Well" Liu Yang (4 votes)
Silver Award: "Gods of Earth: Return of the Dead" Fractal Orange
"Sky Sail" Jiang Bo
"The Age of Gods" Yan Xi
2023 Novella
Gold Award: "The Language of Weightlessness" Day Temperature (5 votes)
Silver Award: "Solar System Set: The Tea House at the End of the Universe" Diptera
"Our Martians" 》Baoshu
"Salt Bridge" Liangling
2023 Annual Short Story
Gold Award: "Let the White Deer Release" Cheng Jingbo (5 votes)
Silver Award: "Lake Wind Blowing Over the Guanghan Moon" Wanxiang Peak Year
"Those with Scenery" Window》Baoshu
《Choose the City》Gu Shi
2023 Annual Translation Works
Gold Award: "Tower of Babel" [US] Written by Kuang Lingxiu; Translated by Chen Yang (7 votes)
Silver Award: "Monster Protection Association" [US] John · "SF Soul: The Autobiography of Sakyo Komatsu" by
translated by Geng Hui [Japanese] "Escape from the Future" by
translated by Meng Qingshu "Looking at the Starry Sky: Chinese Science Fiction I Experienced" Yang Xiao (5 votes)
Silver Award: "Unlocking the Future: Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Novels" Luo Xiaoming
"Chinese Science Fiction Practitioners' Impressions of Foreign Science Fiction Culture—— A Brief Analysis of the History of the Introduction of Foreign Science Fiction Culture" River
"The Oral History of Chinese Science Fiction (Volume 2, Volume 3)" edited by Yang Feng
2023 Annual Review
Gold Award: Vacancy
Silver Award: "From Within the Valley to Between the Stars—— Ursula Le Guin's "Speculative Anthropology"" Jiang Weihe
"The Arc of Human Destiny and the Poetics of Humanity - Reading "The Last and First Man: Stories of the Near and Distant Future"" Diptera
" The ghost of the Anthropocene is wandering - a review of Mark Bold's "The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate, Disaster, Culture"" Lu Guangzhao
""Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department": An atypical slice of the science fiction community" Xixia
2021-2023 Annual Rising Star
Gold Award: Lu Hang (5 votes)
Silver Award: Qi Ran
Wang Cencen
Wang Xiaohai
2023 Special Contribution Award
Yangtze Children's Publishing House (Group) Co., Ltd.
Luzhou Laojiao Co., Ltd.
2017-2023 Annual Seven-Star Lianzhu Award
Dong Renwei, Yao Haijun, Yang Feng, Xixia
The 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award
2020-2023 Annual Art Work Winner List
2020 Annual Art Work
Gold Award: Vacancy
Silver Award: Vacancy
2021 Annual Art Work
Gold Award : "revival" Wang Jiaxuan (5 votes)
Silver Award: "Breath of Steel swan song" Zhang Qingyang
""Star Wars Eve" Main Base" Hou Songqiao
"City Axis" Tang Jitao
2022 Annual Art Works
Gold Award: " Mandarin Fantasy Magazine - Concept Design" Xue Yu (5 votes)
Silver Award: Vacancy
Recommendation Award: "Endless Lagrange" Zhang Ming
2023 Annual Art Works
Gold Award: "No Living, No Appearance" Chen Keyu (5 Ticket)
Silver Award: "Oriental Science Fiction Novel "Ji Liu" Prologue Animation: Intelligent Nuclear Crisis" Pan Wenzong
"Future Moon World" Ding Xinyu, Huang Yujun, Sun Li Junzhe
"Blood Machine" Xiao Wenbo
2020-2023 Art Works
Outstanding Works: "
"Mecha Warrior Base" Chen Liang
"Science Fiction Writer Cat" Wang Ke
"Astronaut Upgrade Plan" Cai Ruihui
""Star Wars Eve" Pathfinder" Huang Yuehua
" "Traveler" Zhang Jiahao "Humanity and Intelligence Coexist" Wang Sucan "Giant Aircraft" Yang Wei "Universe No. 232" Cai Yugao "Homeland" Wang Zhuoxin "Star Road" Yang Qinyi "Foreign Land" Travel" Pan Baijia "Searching for the Unknown" Tang Yunrui "Ascension" Zou Bo "Sichuan: Bird's Nest·Harvest Festival" Zhang Qingyang "Netherworld Castle" Huang Yifu The 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award Youth Science Fiction Essay Contest (Secondary School Group) Winners List Gold Award: Vacancy Silver Award: "Return" Cao Yue "Ring" Lai Yuxuan "Stars Shine, Shine Their Own Light" Sun Feiyue "Substitute" Shen Lingfei Excellent works: " 2144》Sun Wanjie "The Day the Wormhole Appeared" "The Only One" Li Mengyan "Words Dedicated to Mother Wu" Liu Xinyi "Call of the Starry Sky" Xu Yiheng The 15th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award Youth Science Fiction Essay Contest (University Group) Winners List Gold Award: Vacancy Silver Award: "More than Dunhuang" Duan Buran "Lost Mountains and Seas·Soil" dada black goose "Night Rain Heads North" Iron-footed General Clematis Excellent works: "Restarting the Source of Wisdom" Liang Junyi "Key to the Huntian" The sea and the sky are vast "The Legacy of Kaiyuan" Bao Xiaoxi "The Apocalypse of God, the End of Man" Nan Shengzhi "The Growing Dougong" Li Haichuan "The Big Bang of Apocalypse" Lu Zirui, Wang Jingjing "Tiny Creatures" Zhang Yuxin "Yue Ben" 》Chen Zhaojiang "Zhuolong" Xie Xuan "The Last Mercy" Zhang Yuwei
