Vagabonds (流浪苍穹) by Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hǎo Jǐngfāng;. Head of Zeus. 2020 ISBN 978-1982143312.

Synthesis of two Mandarin Chinese novels, "Wandering Maearth" and "Return to Charon"
The novel follows the eighteen-year-old Luoying and her friends, who return to their home planet of Mars after five years on Earth.
A review in Strange Horizons says that "two key themes are the difficulty of understanding another culture from within one’s own, and the difficulty of understanding one’s own culture from within it"... - Wikpedia

This introspective sci-fi epic is tremendously moving in both an emotional and intellectual sense. It suggests that while people have homes and eat well in the kind of communism practiced on a future inhabited Mars, unlike on Earth where rapacious capitalism is still the ruling ideology, nonetheless, the Martian people are neither free nor happy.

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"No matter the form of the truth. Reini believed that a single drop of water had the hardest time explaining the appearance of water." from Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

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"Conversation, Commerce. People had lost sight of which was more important. The first commercial exchanges served the purpose of starting a conversation, and now conversation only served the purpose of continuing commerce. When commerce was no longer necessary, it was easy to forget about conversation. The isolation of languages was the result of collusion; it brought profit, engendered hatred, gave birth to manufactured identities, and above all generated the desire to buy, buy, buy. Conversation was dying, but commerce became ever more vibrant." from Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

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Acabo de empezar la novela "Saltonautas", de Hao Jingfang. Tiene buena pinta:

Hay una pega, la #traducción no es directa del mandarín al castellano, es una traducción de la versión inglesa, no sé si por estar publicado por una editorial anglosajona o por escasez de traductores chino-español. Me imagino que eso perjudicará la experiencia de lectura.

https://gigamesh.com/saltonautas/?srsltid=AfmBOop3ou9j_DAx71JSOAYQh4gha66nyqU3ePldtsjo0b8_wgXC4Y10

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Next week at Archipelacon! I'll be introducing my doctoral project and talking about redundant laborers in Hao Jingfang's "Folding Beijing" and Xia Jia's "A Hundred Ghost Parade Tonight" in Fafnir's Anniversary Symposium plus taking part in a panel about supernatural powers in Chinese SFF. Whole programme here: https://archipelacon.org/programme/#display:list

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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book free of charge for review purposes only. Receipt of a book does not guarantee a review or endorsement.
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