Data Narrator : Digital Chronotopes in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
(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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- author
- Møller-Olsen, Astrid LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Digital chronotopes, cyberfiction, science fiction, global science fiction
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- SFRA Review
- volume
- 50
- issue
- 2-3
- pages
- 133 - 140
- ISSN
- 2641-2837
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- bffb2cc2-8760-4652-aa54-a1e1f1fc8940
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