Liu Yang of the Humanities Center of our university won the 10th "Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award" and the first Chinese science fiction film "Raw Stone Award"
From October 25 to 27, 2019, the 10th anniversary celebration of the China Science Fiction Awards "Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award" (hereinafter referred to as the "Nebula Award") was held in Chongqing. 100 science fiction writers such as Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, He Xi, Han Song, Hao Jingfang, Wu Yan, Chen Jianfan, Jiang Bo and more than 200 science fiction practitioners participated in the event, and the award was given to the science fiction stars who won the 10th "Nebula Award" and the writers who won the first "Original Stone Award" (hereinafter referred to as the "Original Stone Award"). Liu Yang, a teacher at the Humanities Center of our university, won the Silver Award for Best Novel and the First "Raw Stone Award" of the 10th "Nebula Award" for his novel "Orphans of Mars".
Yao Haijun, deputy editor-in-chief of Science Fiction World magazine, presented Liu Yang with an award.
The "Nebula Award" was established in 2010 and is selected and awarded by the World Chinese Science Fiction Association headquartered in Chengdu. The award is selected once a year in the face of the world's Chinese science fiction field. During this "Nebula Award" awards event, the winners of the first "Raw Stone Award" will be awarded to encourage science fiction writers to create more science fiction works suitable for film and television adaptations. It is reported that the inaugural "Raw Stone Award" received a total of more than 300 entries, which were selected by 51 preliminary judges, 9 review judges, and 9 judges composed of authoritative scholars from the sci-fi and film critics circles. The 10 winning works were finally selected, including 5 science fiction movie scripts and 5 science fiction novels "Raw Stone" that were most promising to be carved into treasures. In the runoff stage, Liu Yang's long science fiction novel "Mars Orphans" won the first "Rough Stone Award" with a high number of votes of 7 (9 votes in total).
Inaugural Rough Stone Trophy
Liu Yang's long science fiction novel Orphans of Mars was published by People's Literature Press in 2018. Previously, "Mars Orphan" has won a number of awards such as the China Science Fiction Reader's Choice Award and the Golden Age Award, and was included in the "Golden Pufferfish · Science Fiction IP Value List" of the 9th Beijing International Film Festival and the annual top IP list of the 2019 Shanghai International Film and Television Festival. For this novel, the judges of the 10th "Nebula Award" and the first "Raw Stone Award" highly praised: "The novel starts from the small perspective of the college entrance examination, but develops a grand story of high school students fighting against aliens to save the world." The entire human knowledge system has been subverted and rewritten in the novel, but behind this subversion, there is a very reasonable explanation - the suspense of the novel is arranged very appropriately. Under the surface story of the waves, it always surges secretly and makes people want to stop. "After winning the award, Liu Yang said in an interview with reporters," Thank you for your attention and love for "Mars Orphan", I will continue to work hard to write a better work! "
First "Raw Stone Award" Award Certificate
At present, Liu Yang is mainly engaged in teaching and research work related to writing and science fiction in the Humanities Center of our university. He has been creating and publishing science fiction works since 2012. He has published more than 600,000 words of short science fiction in magazines such as "Science Fiction World", "Literary and Art Appreciation" and "New Science Fiction". His works have been reprinted many times in pure literary journals such as "Fiction Monthly" and "Beijing Literature". Some of his works have been translated into English and published in magazines such as "Clarksworld" and "Pathlight". He has also set up science fiction columns in the new media "Non-existent Daily", published a series of sci-fi essays, and published a short story collection "Perfect Doomsday", "Honeycomb", a long-form science fiction novel "Mars Orphans", etc. His works have won the first science fiction "Galaxy Award", the fourth Chinese science fiction "Lightyear Award", the eighth "Nebula Award", the ninth "Nebula Award" Best Novel Award, the 2018 Jingdong Literature Award, the top five science fiction category of the year, etc.
