Science Fiction World, July 2007

Science Fiction World for July, 2007, is a special issue devoted to Beijing-based writers - Xing He (星河), Ling Chen (淩晨), Xia Jia (夏笳), Chen Qiufan (陈楸帆), and Yang Ping (杨平).

Xing He is probably the most well-known; he contributes "Your Many-Colored Life" (你形形色色的生活), a fable of two people from two different societies - one pampered by robots and one enslaved by them - each of whom believes people are better off elsewhere.

Yang Ping is known as a cyberpunk writer, and here he contributes "Freezing Point" (冰点), a soft cyberpunkish story of a man who's chosen as the subject of a chip-implantation experiment after a near-fatal accident.

Ling Chen's is the best of the bunch. She tells the story of a family who's expecting a child while working on a top-secret search for life on Jupiter's moons in "A Titan Story" (泰坦故事).

The translated stories in this issue are Dick's "Rautavaara's Case" and Robert Reed's "Pills Forever".