Temporal-Spatial Knot

Author: Xinghe
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: A renowned contemporary science fiction work from China. In the story, an elevator in a school becomes a passage connecting different time periods and spaces. The young protagonist travels through this passage, experiencing various eras and locations, and eventually discovers how to leave this strange temporal space. During the escape, they are physically and mentally exhausted, nearing despair. This is the story depicted in Xinghe's award-winning novel Temporal Knot. This book includes over ten excellent short stories and award-winning works by Xinghe, such as Interrogation After Waiting for Judgment, Eternal Life, The Brain Stage, Space Rescue, Pilgrimage, Zhang Yang's Spy, To Retrieve an Arm, One-Thirteenth, Classic Causality, Mountains and Waters, Beacon Tower, and Duel in the Network. Xinghe excels at portraying the mental state of adolescence with split personalities, possesses extraordinary imagination, and demonstrates remarkable ability in constructing narratives. His works are deeply influenced by the creative philosophies of Stevenson, Dostoevsky, Kafka, and Murakami, filled with a longing for long-lost human emotions, and depict tragicomedies of temporal dislocation.