TY - JOUR
T1 - Data Narrator
T2 - Digital Chronotopes in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
AU - Møller-Olsen, Astrid
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.”
AB - 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.”
KW - Digital chronotopes, cyberfiction, science fiction, global science fiction
M3 - Article
SN - 2641-2837
VL - 50
SP - 133
EP - 140
JO - SFRA Review
JF - SFRA Review
IS - 2-3
ER -