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Chen Qiufan

陈楸帆

November 30, 1981 (age 44)

Birth place: Shantou, Guangdong, China

26 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
August 2011 Short Fiction The Fish of Lijiang Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2011
November 2012 20 Short Fiction The Flower of Shazui Interzone, November-December 2012
May 2013 |8 Short Fiction The Endless Farewell Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, Spring 2013
July 2013 68 Short Fiction The Year of the Rat The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July-August 2013
March 2014 |19 Interview Author Spotlight: Chen Qiufan Lightspeed, March 2014
March 2014 |3 Short Fiction The Mao Ghost Lightspeed, March 2014
March 2015 Short Fiction Coming of the Light Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2015
March 2015 Interview Staying Sensitive in the Crowd: A Conversation with Chen Qiufan Clarkesworld Magazine, March 2015
August 2015 |210 Interview Author Spotlight: Chen Qiufan Lightspeed, August 2015
August 2015 |20 Short Fiction The Smog Society Lightspeed, August 2015
March 2016 8 Short Fiction Let There Be Light Daily Science Fiction, March 2016
April 2016 30 Short Fiction Balin Clarkesworld, April 2016
August 2017 57|5 Short Fiction A Man Out of Fashion Clarkesworld, August 2017
September 2018 Short Fiction A History of Future Illnesses Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, No. 2 2016
January 2019 88 Short Fiction The Reunion MIT Technology Review, January/February 2019
June 2019 Short Fiction Space Leek Slate, June 29, 2019
August 2019 49 Short Fiction In This Moment, We Are Happy Clarkesworld, August 2019
November 2019 Review Waste Tide Strange Horizons, 18 November 2019
January 2020 74 Short Fiction The Ancestral Temple in a Box Clarkesworld, January 2020
April 2020 Short Fiction Debtless Clarkesworld, April 2020
May 2020 203 Review Waste Tide Asimov's Science Fiction, May-June 2020
November 2020 74 Short Fiction Forger Mr. Z Asimov's Science Fiction, November-December 2020
December 2021 77 Review AI 2041 The New York Times Book Review, December 5, 2021
July 2022 206 Review AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future Asimov's Science Fiction, July-August 2022
September 2022 |8 Interview With Every Future We Wish to Create, We Must First Learn to Imagine It": An Interview with Chen Qiufan Strange Horizons, 26 September 2022
February 2024 13 Review AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future The New York Times Book Review, February 18, 2024

2 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2019 Novel Waste Tide Chen Qiufan
2021 Collection AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future Chen Qiufan & Kai-Fu Lee

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards Short Form Award The Fish of Lijiang Winner
2013 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards Short Form Award The Flower of Shazui Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best First Novel Waste Tide Nominee
2020 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette In This Moment, We Are Happy Nominee
2023 Hugo Award Best Novelette 菌歌 Nominee
2023 Hugo Award Best Short Story 菌歌 Nominee

"English" name Stanley Chan, with a "Cantonese-influenced vowel-shift" --SFE

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