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Ivan Turgenev’s “Threshold,”
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Book 3)
“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens,”
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
human mercenary instinct.
Liu, Cixin • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Book 2)
These are visions of Hao Jingfang, a Chinese science-fiction writer and economics researcher. Hao’s novelette “Folding Beijing” won the prestigious Hugo Award in 2016 for its arresting depiction of a city in which economic classes are separated into different worlds.
Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
