The 2013 Joint Eaton/SFRA Conference is now calling for papers. The theme of this conference is "Science Fiction Media."

An interesting italian sci-fi movie about an alien who comes to the Earth and can only speak Chinese.

Panel proposal/Call for Participants: "Science Fiction and Empire in East", Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, March 15-18, 2012

of the Future: Global Science Fiction Cinema. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 12-14

Chinese SF's debut in the Eaton Conference.

This paper reviews in detail Lu Xun’s translation of science fiction when studying in Japan, and makes farther analysis. At first, by describing the historical details of the publication of Lu Xun’s translation works of science fiction, and close reading of the texts, the paper discusses Lu Xun’s early literary ideas and social thoughts embodied in the translating activities. In the second part, the paper analyzes Lu Xun’s view of science fiction on the basis of his “Preface to From the Earth to the Moon.” In conjunction with Lu Xun’s life experience, the third part points out the main factors that impelled him to translate and introduce science fiction. In conclusion, this paper advanced some critical comments on Lu Xun’s translation of science fiction, plus some issues to be explored.

On October 26, 2010, the organizing committee for the Second XINGYUN Awards convened at the offices of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association in Chengdu. The meeting passed the Charter for the 2011 2nd XINGYUN Awards, signifying the formal launch of prize’s second cycle. Award organizers have evidently learned from the experience of the first cycle: the new charter drops the fantasy category, constraining nominations to the field of science fiction, with which WCSFA members are more familiar.

"The Return of the Ring" is a conference which aims to bring together scholars and researchers from across the globe to share their expertise and interest in any Tolkien-related area of study such as linguistics, fantasy, literature, education, media and culture, fandom etc.

The Three Body trilogy is now complete, a monumental masterpiece of Chinese science fiction, clocking in at a total length of 880,000 characters. Writing the third volume, 360,000 characters in length, took Liu Cixin roughly a year. The publisher has revealed that Three Body III will be released in November at the earliest. Beginning on September 15, samples began to be released online and will eventually make up an excerpt of 10,000 characters.

In this essay, Joel Martinsen gives thought-provoking comments on some "soft" Chinese science fiction novels uttering social critique in an amazing way.