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...
Once the dog days of summer began, rain came often to the village. It would pour noisily during...
In that moment, Su Yuan made up his mind. He would push for new legislation—to grant bionic...
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Summer Vacation Ended Quietly The summer vacation had slipped away without a sound. ...
First Avenue on the Fourth Ring Road had descended into total chaos. Hundreds of taxis...
It was June, the height of summer, and the heat hung thick and suffocating. The university...
God first noticed the problem thirty-five billion years after Creation. Or rather, not...
Nature and Science reprinted the paper on their front pages. MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge—...
The Sun and the Earth would never claim this child as their own. Not for lack of love, but out of...
Willett’s perspective was strikingly original. The pursuit of novelty and transformation was the...
Yan Xiaofan could crawl when he was only six months old. Liu E’zi thought to herself: this...
The summer sun blazed mercilessly in the afternoon. The asphalt had grown soft under the heat,...
Deep in the void, nebulae drift like silk ribbons torn apart by time, flowing slowly through...
The delivery room door finally opened. A nurse came out holding a swaddled baby, her voice...
Chen Guo was born into a working-class family on an old street. His father, Chen Guang, was quiet...
Su Yuan tapped her arm lightly, a smile on his lips. “Xiao Qian, I saw a funny joke online. Want...
From December 5 to 9, 1952, London was engulfed in thick, suffocating smog. Transportation...
After its birth, the Moon pulled gently at Earth with its gravity, like a newborn creature...
It was just past midnight on the duty room’s digital clock. The lights were pale and dim....
Time sped by as if pressed on fast forward, slipping through fingers silently, leaving no trace....
At some moment in cosmic time, a breathtaking sight unfolded. Earth tore itself open...
Some streets in the old district had streetlights; others did not. The ones that did flickered on...
September arrived, bringing cool autumn breezes. It was the season for sports. In the...
Yan Xiaofan’s name was given to him by his father, Yan Gaoshan. According to village...
Filled with doubt, Ning Xiaoshuai returned to the duty room. The moment he pushed open the door,...
That night, Chen Guo lay on an Italian leather sofa—cream-white, top-grain calfskin. When he...
Su Yuan stood at the center of the lab, his finger hovering an inch above Xiao Qian’s cheek,...