The main characters of Adventures in Wuzhi Mountain talk about their admiration for the Monkey King. When Wuzhi Mountain, the highest mountain in South China's Hainan province, is mentioned, many people's first thought will be of the classic novel Journey to the West and its protagonist Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. In the tale, the Monkey King tries to escape …
The newsletter Words for Worlds by Gautam Bhatia revealed a big lacuna in my bookshelf: science fiction. In Cixin’s novel, nanotech engineer Wang Miao witnesses disturbing phenomena that seemingly have no explanation and contradict scientific laws. As Miao infiltrates ‘Frontiers of Science’, a group that might be linked to the deaths, he comes across a virtual reality game. Reviewer Syed …
