The Mender Who Mended the Sky Chen Xiu was an appliance repairman. They called him “One-Touch Wonder,” because anything he laid his hands on would work again. But most of the appliances he fixed were old and worn-out, and his wife often compla...
The Starzhou let out a deathly metallic shriek as it plowed through dark matter turbulence, and tension gripped everyone on board.The fleet’s destination was a floating starfield deep in space known as Starzhou.It drifted with genesis particles le...
In that moment, Su Yuan made up his mind. He would push for new legislation—to grant bionic...
Once the dog days of summer began, rain came often to the village. It would pour noisily during...
--- It was the kind of afternoon that made you feel sorry for yourself. The sun was brutal—hot...
It was 11:43 at night. The lights in the AI lab still burned bright, like an unextinguished...
First Avenue on the Fourth Ring Road had descended into total chaos. Hundreds of taxis...
Willett’s perspective was strikingly original. The pursuit of novelty and transformation was the...
God first noticed the problem thirty-five billion years after Creation. Or rather, not...
Nature and Science reprinted the paper on their front pages. MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge—...
It was June, the height of summer, and the heat hung thick and suffocating. The university...
The summer sun blazed mercilessly in the afternoon. The asphalt had grown soft under the heat,...
Deep in the void, nebulae drift like silk ribbons torn apart by time, flowing slowly through...
Summer Vacation Ended Quietly The summer vacation had slipped away without a sound. ...
The Sun and the Earth would never claim this child as their own. Not for lack of love, but out of...
The delivery room door finally opened. A nurse came out holding a swaddled baby, her voice...
God buried his face in his arms, breathing evenly. Then he dreamed.The scene in the dream was...
Chen Guo was born into a working-class family on an old street. His father, Chen Guang, was quiet...
From December 5 to 9, 1952, London was engulfed in thick, suffocating smog. Transportation...
After two days of rest over the weekend, Su Yuan’s tense nerves finally relaxed. On Monday...
Yan Xiaofan could crawl when he was only six months old. Liu E’zi thought to herself: this...
Chen Guo stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows of his 28th-floor office in Jinding...
That night, Chen Guo lay on an Italian leather sofa—cream-white, top-grain calfskin. When he...
After its birth, the Moon pulled gently at Earth with its gravity, like a newborn creature...
Some streets in the old district had streetlights; others did not. The ones that did flickered on...
Su Yuan tapped her arm lightly, a smile on his lips. “Xiao Qian, I saw a funny joke online. Want...
It was just past midnight on the duty room’s digital clock. The lights were pale and dim....
Yan Xiaofan’s name was given to him by his father, Yan Gaoshan. According to village...
Su Yuan stood at the center of the lab, his finger hovering an inch above Xiao Qian’s cheek,...
Time sped by as if pressed on fast forward, slipping through fingers silently, leaving no trace....