The Mender Who Mended the Sky Chen Xiu was an appliance repairman. They called him “One-Touch Wonder,” because anything he laid his hands on would work again. But most of the appliances he fixed were old and worn-out, and his wife often compla...
The Starzhou let out a deathly metallic shriek as it plowed through dark matter turbulence, and tension gripped everyone on board.The fleet’s destination was a floating starfield deep in space known as Starzhou.It drifted with genesis particles le...
In that moment, Su Yuan made up his mind. He would push for new legislation—to grant bionic...
--- It was the kind of afternoon that made you feel sorry for yourself. The sun was brutal—hot...
Once the dog days of summer began, rain came often to the village. It would pour noisily during...
Nature and Science reprinted the paper on their front pages. MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge—...
It was 11:43 at night. The lights in the AI lab still burned bright, like an unextinguished...
Willett’s perspective was strikingly original. The pursuit of novelty and transformation was the...
First Avenue on the Fourth Ring Road had descended into total chaos. Hundreds of taxis...
God first noticed the problem thirty-five billion years after Creation. Or rather, not...
God buried his face in his arms, breathing evenly. Then he dreamed.The scene in the dream was...
Deep in the void, nebulae drift like silk ribbons torn apart by time, flowing slowly through...
The summer sun blazed mercilessly in the afternoon. The asphalt had grown soft under the heat,...
The delivery room door finally opened. A nurse came out holding a swaddled baby, her voice...
Yan Xiaofan could crawl when he was only six months old. Liu E’zi thought to herself: this...
It was June, the height of summer, and the heat hung thick and suffocating. The university...
After two days of rest over the weekend, Su Yuan’s tense nerves finally relaxed. On Monday...
The Sun and the Earth would never claim this child as their own. Not for lack of love, but out of...
Summer Vacation Ended Quietly The summer vacation had slipped away without a sound. ...
From December 5 to 9, 1952, London was engulfed in thick, suffocating smog. Transportation...
Some streets in the old district had streetlights; others did not. The ones that did flickered on...
Su Yuan tapped her arm lightly, a smile on his lips. “Xiao Qian, I saw a funny joke online. Want...
That night, Chen Guo lay on an Italian leather sofa—cream-white, top-grain calfskin. When he...
Chen Guo was born into a working-class family on an old street. His father, Chen Guang, was quiet...
It was just past midnight on the duty room’s digital clock. The lights were pale and dim....
The rain pattered softly, rustling against the pine trees in the cemetery. Ning Xiaoshuai pulled...
That night, Lin Wan curled up on the living room sofa, watching Above Life. “Can I watch...
September arrived, bringing cool autumn breezes. It was the season for sports. In the...
After its birth, the Moon pulled gently at Earth with its gravity, like a newborn creature...
Chen Guo stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows of his 28th-floor office in Jinding...