Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

Yao Haijun (Honorary Editor) is deputy Director-in-Chief of Science Fiction World, President of Chengdu Science Fiction Association, and Co-founder of Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award. He founded China's first science fiction fanzine Nebula in 1988 and joined Science Fiction World in 1998. He discovered many new writers, initiating the 'Science Fiction Vision Project' which launched the internationally bestselling 'Three-Body' series. He has also won the Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award for Best Editor.

Leah Cypess wrote her first short story—in which the narrator was an ice cream cone—at the age of six. She has degrees in biology, journalism, and law, and has traveled to Iceland, Israel, Jordan, and Costa Rica, among other places. She now lives with her family in Maryland. She is also the author of the acclaimed fantasy novels Death Marked, Mistwood, and Nightspell.

Award-winning columnist, author and playwright Ron Ferguson was shortlisted for a major Saltire Society prize in 2011 for George Mackay Brown: The Wound & The Gift. A former leader of the Iona Community, he was minister of St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney, for 11 years.

Alex Shvartsman is the author of over 120 short stories, published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction in 2014 and was a two-time finalist (2015 & 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His translations have appeared in F&SF, Apex, and Samovar. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects series, and is the editor-in-chief of Future Science Fiction Digest.

Amdi Silvestri is a Danish author. Active since 2008, he has contributed to a galaxy of different anthologies, and has published nineteen books; most recently the novel Für Elise and a collection of short stories titled Almost Here. He has received the Danish Niels Klim Prize for science fiction five times. His work tends to be experimental and restless, and insists on mixing genres and styles, using every piece of fiction as an opportunity to do something different.

Allen Stroud is a researcher at Coventry University, working in Defence and Security Futures. He was Chair of the British Science Fiction Association between 2019 and 2025. and was editor of the British Fantasy Society Journal from 2015 to 2019. He is an award-winning writer and writes critical works, short stories, novels and music. His science fiction novels are published by Flame Tree Press.

Bao Shu is a Chinese SF writer who has won multiple major awards, and published four novels and three collections. His shorter works are published by celebrated magazines like Science Fiction World, Knowledge is Power, People's Literature, Fiction World, and Flower City. Some of his works have been translated into multiple languages. Several of his stories are now available in English, published in F&SF and Clarkesworld. Redemption of Time (translated by Ken Liu), the officially sanctioned spin-off to Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, was published in 2019.

Zhao Haihong holds an MA in English and American literature from Zhejiang University and a Ph.D in art history from the China Academy of Arts. She teaches at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou. She has been publishing SF stories since 1996 and is the winner of the National Award For Outstanding Children's Literature and a six-time winner of the GalaxyAward. Her translated stories "Exuviation" and "Windhorse" have appeared in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet; and "The Starry Sky over the Southern Isle" has been published on Asimov's Science Fiction. Her story "1923, A Fantasy" (translated by Nicky Harman and Pang Zhaoxia) was included in the The Reincarnated Giants: An Anthology of 21st-Century Chinese Science Fiction by Linda Rui Feng. She is currently working with publishers around the world on stories for several upcoming anthologies.

Chen Zijun is a Science Fiction writer and a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University. He has won the Galaxy Award and the Global Nebula Award several times. He is currently working in Aerospace related fields.

Han Song, science fiction writer, chairman of the Science Fiction Writers section of the Chinese Science Writers Association. Winner of multiple Yinhe, Xingyun and Tokyo Literature Awards. His signature works include "Subway", "Hospital", "The Red Sea", Red Star Over America, Tombs of the Universe, and "Regenerated Bricks". He has been translated into English, French, Italian, Japanese and other languages.

Wang Jikang, born in 1948, is a renowned science fiction writer, senior engineer. Winner of multiple Yinhe Awards, he is the only writer to have won the Lifetime Achievement Award simultaneously at the Yinhe as well as the Xingyun. Launching his writing career in the early 1990s, he has composed over a hundred works of science fiction, being named one the Three Leading Lights of Chinese Sci-Fi. His signature works include The Return of Adam, "Sowing on Venus" and The Song of Life.

He Xi, born in 1971, is one of the most well-known science fiction writers in China. He published his debut One Crazy Night in 1991. He has won the Galaxy Award (the highest honor for science fiction writing in China) 17 times and the Chinese Nebula Award multiple times. Many of his works are about the future of macro science and how humanity reacts to it. Some of his better-known works are: The Doomed Year, Natural Born Talent, Who am I, Never Meet Again, and The Six Paths of Lives.