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Exclusive Interview: “Sinopticon” Editor / Translator Xueting Christine Ni

 

Between Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem finding vocal fans in Barack Obama and the people behind Game Of Thrones, and Ken Liu being tapped to pen a Star Wars novel, The Legends Of Luke Skywalker, Chinese science fiction is “having a moment” as they say. Which brings me to Sinopticon: A Celebration Of Chinese Science Fiction (paperback, Kindle), a new short story collection edited and translated by Xueting Christine Ni. In the following email interview, Ni explains what went into assembling this anthology.