Han Song is one of China’s most prolific science fiction writers. His published novels includeLet’s Go Look for Aliens, Manmade Man, 2066: Red Star Over America, Red Ocean, Subway, etc.Han has received the Chinese Galaxy Award for fiction six times. His novels have been translated into English, Japanese, French, Italian, etc. The LA Times describes him as “China’s premier science fiction writer”. Now he works as a journalist at the Xinhua News Agency.
The three full-length novels—Hospital, Exorcism and Phantom—together compose the latest science fiction series of Han Song. The trilogy explores the secrets of the hospitals in the near future,i.e. the age of artificial intelligence, and gives serious consideration to life and human nature. It istypical of his “anti-utopian” work.
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing Company was founded in 1952. The Publishing Company issues about 950 new kinds of books per year, mainly on Chinese and foreign modern and contemporary literature, literary theory, and cultural theory.
