Billed as the spiritual centre of Chinese sci-fi, Chengdu was the birthplace of the monthly magazine Science Fiction World, which has been in publication since 1979. Along with another magazine ...

Stories set in the future are often judged, as time passes, on whether they come true or not. “Where are our flying cars?” became a plaintive cry of disappointment as the millennium arrived ...

The magazine hosted the Annual Conference of the World Science Fiction Association in 1991 and two international sf conferences in 1996 and 2007. Fan clubs were established in almost every major ...