Chen Qiufan | |
Native Name: | 陈楸帆 |
Other Names: | Stanley Chan |
Birth Date: | 30 November 1981 |
Birth Place: | Shantou, Guangdong, China |
Occupation: | Science fiction writer, scriptwriter |
Notable Works: | The Waste Tide |
Chen Qiufan (; born 1981), also known as Stanley Chan, is a Chinese science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter.[1] [2] [3] His first novel was The Waste Tide (2013), which "combines realism with allegory to present the hybridity of humans and machines".[4] Chen Qiufan's short fiction works have won three Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction and twelve Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Chinese. "The Fish of Lijiang" received the Best Short Form Award for the 2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards. His stories have been published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, MIT Technology Review, Clarkesworld Magazine, Year's Best SF, Interzone, and Lightspeed, as well as influential Chinese science fiction magazine Science Fiction World. His works have been translated into German, French, Finnish, Korean, Czech, Italian, Japanese and Polish and other languages.
Chen was born in Shantou, Guangdong, China in 1981.
He graduated from Peking University in 2004 with dual bachelor's degrees in literature and fine arts, and pursued graduate studies in the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program of Hong Kong University and Tsinghua University. He later worked for Baidu and Google China.[5] In 2017, Chen quit his job to write full-time.
Chen's fiction, described as "science fiction realism", focuses on the internal struggles of individuals during times of accelerated change.[6]
Chen has become known for his use of AI-generated content in his stories. His story, "State of Trance," which appeared in Book of Shanghai, a 2020 short story collection, used automatically generated paragraphs based on his own writing. That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan. He is currently working on a six-story collection about the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.[7] Chen's collaboration with Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, was published in September, 2021.[8]
Novels
Short stories