Chen Qiufan


Chen Qiufan, also known as Stanley Chan, is a Chinese science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter. His first novel was The Waste Tide, which "combines realism with allegory to present the hybridity of humans and machines".
Chen Qiufan's short fiction works have won three Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction, 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, 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.

Early life

Chen was born in Shantou, Guangdong, China in 1981.
He graduated from Peking University with dual bachelor's degrees in literature and fine arts, and pursued graduate studies in the Integrated Marketing Communications program of Hong Kong University and Tsinghua University. He later worked for Baidu and Google China.

Writing Style

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, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan. He is currently working on a six-story collection about the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.

Selected works

Novels
Short stories