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re: "conspiracy theory" that governments are prepared for alien invasion: As for your point about the conspiracy theory, my view is actually the opposite. I think the biggest problem right now is that the various national governments and the international community are completely unprepared for the possibility of the…

re: keeping the invasion hidden from the public: At least in China, I think keeping news of the invasion secret is possible. In the West, history shows that many great secrets had been successfully hidden from the public. For example, I believe President Truman didn't even know about the Manhattan Project until he…

"Little Lingtong" is a rather simplistic book intended to make science interesting for children. It's actually a fixup novel made from some science popularization articles Ye wrote. Other works by Ye don't show such obvious sheer baldfaced optimism.

When I was younger, I was an avid gamer, and I loved gaming as much as I loved science fiction. But later, I no longer had the time or energy to devote to the hobby. The game in the book is a sort of my idealized view of network games, a kind of game that has been elevated into the realm of art and culture. I hope to…

The announcement (likely) is real, but its true impact is limited. Something similar happened during the 1980s, and overnight Chinese science fiction virtually ceased to exist. But now, such policies have limited effect. "Time travel" (or "chuanyue") novels and movies, as well as works involving other "discouraged"…

I think these three factions are very very different. Their thoughts and beliefs have many conflicts and contradictions. I don't like to bury a ton of hidden metaphors in my novel, and I didn't intend these three factions as metaphorical commentary.

Role of science fiction: Science fiction is perhaps the most global of literary genres. In science fiction humanity is often described as a unified whole. In the age of globalization, I think SF—whether as a form of literature or a way of thinking—will grow more and more influential.

Chinese science fiction first appeared in the last years of the Qing Dynasty (the beginning of the last century). Later, due to wars and other reasons, the development of science fiction was interrupted many times. The Chinese science fiction of the last century is very different from Western science fiction, mainly…

Deng Wenguang's work isn't a big influence on my writing. My fiction is more influenced by Western writers like Arthur C. Clarke.

The biggest influences on my writing are two authors: Arthur C. Clarke and George Orwell. Clarke taught me to appreciate the magic of science fictional depictions of the relationship between Man and the Universe. Orwell, on the other hand, showed me that science fiction can reflect and critique reality from an angle…

I was once an avid gamer, as obsessed with games as I was with science fiction. I believe games will hold an important place in the future of human culture and become an essential form of cultural expression. That's not true, yet. Computer gaming needs master to develop and expand its potential, just like the Japanese…

Reflecting reality and history isn't my goal in writing science fiction. The Cultural Revolution-related content in the novel are there because the story needs it. I needed Wenjie to completely despair of humanity and human nature, and out of all the events that have happened in modern Chinese history, only the…