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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Yu Chen
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation From a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang, Judy Yi Zhou

Tor/Forge · 2022-03-08

The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation From a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

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  • Good for readers who enjoy Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
  • Good for readers interested in short stories
  • Good for fans of Fantasy

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  • Themes: Women, Fantasy, Literature.
  • Reading lane: Science Fiction and Fantasy.
  • Publisher: Tor/Forge.

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  • Literary Collections / Asian / Chinese

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About This Book

An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories , you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure tha...

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An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories , you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter's day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection.

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