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Data Narrator : Digital Chronotopes in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Møller-Olsen, Astrid LU (2020) In SFRA Review 50(2-3). p.133-140
Abstract
In this brief comparison of three examples from contemporary Chinese SF, we see the impossible topology of the digital realm envisioned as a lightscape, a seascape, and as a cityscape under surveillance. The digital chronotopes explored include the computer-generated alternative reality in Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem, the ocean of data in Tang Fei's “Call Girl,” and language as World Wide Web in Ma Boyong's “The City of Silence.”
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Digital chronotopes, cyberfiction, science fiction, global science fiction
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SFRA Review
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50
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2-3
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133 - 140
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2641-2837
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English
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