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Jumpnauts

By Hao Jingfang (Translated by Ken Liu)

17 Jul, 2024

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Hao Jingfang’s 2021 Jumpnauts is a stand-alone science fiction novel. The 2024 English translation is by Ken Liu.

2080: all across Earth the Pacific League and Atlantic Alliance forces clash. Thus far, defensive technology suffices to fend off most attacks. Nevertheless, escalation seems inevitable, particularly if some new factor were to introduce itself.

Enter aliens.

Homeward Bound

Vagabonds

By Hao Jingfang

Hao Jingfang’s 2011 Liúlàng Cāngqióng was translated into English by Ken Liu and published under the title Vagabonds in 2020.

The Mercury Group, a cohort of Martian teenagers, returns to Mars after a five-year stay on Earth. Their visit was the latest stage in an effort to gradually warm relations between Earth and its breakaway community on Mars. The teens discover that relations are slow to warm … if they are warming at all.