CHENGDU, March 26 (Xinhua) — The 33rd Galaxy Awards, China\’s prestigious literary science-fiction award, were unveiled Saturday in Yingjing County in southwest China\’s Sichuan Province, featuring winners from younger generations.
Ben Lu won the best medium-length story award for his work \”Upstart,\” Wang Nuonuo won the best adaptation potential award for \”Turing Food Stall,\” and A Que won the best short story award for \”2039: Era of Brain Computer Interface.\” All three winners were born in the 1990s.
A white paper on 2022 Chinese sci-fi network literature was released during the award ceremony, noting that there are 42,000 new sci-fi web-writers in China, of whom 72 percent were born in the 2000s, while some 70 percent are undergraduate students or hold a bachelor degree or above.
The white paper also shows that in 2022, the number of online readers of sci-fi increased by 39.73 percent compared with 2021, while 70 percent of sci-fi readers were younger than 30 years old.
Established by China\’s most popular sci-fi periodical \”Science Fiction World\” in 1985, the Galaxy Awards is the oldest award in China\’s sci-fi field. The first awards were given in 1986.