Science fiction pioneer and writer Wu Yan won the National Outstanding Children’s Literature Award in 2021 for his latest work China Orbit. The book focuses on the development of the Chinese aerospace industry, and it     1    (inspire) by the planning and preparation for China’s first but canceled manned spacecraft “Shuguang 1”, also     2    (know) as “Project 714”, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

    3     (part) based on Wu’s own experiences in the 1970s, the book is a     4    (combine) of reality and fiction, and in some ways his own memoirs (回忆录) were added     5     the science fiction. This innovative and unique writing method     6    (make) the book stand out and has even stirred up a debate on how     7    (categorize) it. Is it science fiction, popular science, children’s literature, or aerospace literature?

Science fiction writer Liu Cixin, author of The Three-Body Problem, believes China Orbit is too     8    (complicate) to be grouped under a single category. He regards China Orbit as     9     unique science fiction novel     10     vividly shows a child’s real-life experience in a military camp of a specific era.

China’s online literature industry is making an increasing impact overseas—with some even     1     (say) that it can compare with U. S. and Korean films and TV shows. By the end of 2022, more than 16, 000 Chinese online works of literature     2     (export) abroad, including over 6, 400 physical book authorizations and over 9, 600     3     (translate) online works.

Overseas readers of Chinese web novels exceeded 150 million in 2022, mainly Generation Z born between 1996 and 2010. Among 15 major     4     (category), urban, western and eastern fantasy, gaming, and science fiction emerged as the five most popular types among overseas readers.

In June, Wang Xiang,     5     member of the online literature committee at the China Writers Association told domestic media Chinese web novels are often similar     6     Hollywood movies in terms of their storytelling methods and focus on superhuman abilities. “Chinese online literature has become a     7     (globe) cultural center compared with Hollywood movies in terms of     8     (it) reach and influence among the worldwide audience,” said Wang.

Last year, 16 Chinese online works of literature were included in the British Library’s Chinese collection for the first time, all of     9     were first published on digital reading platform Qidian where readers can read kinds of Chinese online literature. According to data released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in April,     10     the domestic online literature market earned amounted to 38. 93 billion yuan in 2022, a year-on-year growth of 8. 8%.

Science fiction is regarded by many people as a mirror through which our future can be     1    (free) imagined and explored. The Three-Body Problem, written by Chinese writer Liu Cixin, is one of those     2    (astonish) predictions about the future. The work was first published in a Chinese sci-fi magazine in 2006. When the first volume     3    (translate) into English by Chinese-American author Ken Liu, it attracted attention around the world, becoming the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The book represents many     4    (theme) such as space exploration, alien contact, AI, and the future of humans.

The Three-Body Problem begins with the stories of two unrelated people, Ye Wenjie and Wang Miao. Ye is recruited(征募) to join     5     secret project in a remote area of China, which has been set up to contact alien life forms. In the other story,     6    (set) 20 years later, Wang Miao gets caught up in a popular online game called “Three Body”, in     7     people live on an unknown planet with three suns. But Wang discovers it is more than a game — it uncovers a great danger     8    (threaten) human existence. How are these two people’s stories connected? And how will their     9    (behave) change Earth’s future and the civilisations of other planets? Answers     10     all these questions are waiting to be discovered when you go on reading.