I would like to talk about the best books I’ve read.

The Best in Each Characteristic

• best storytelling: all of 金庸
• best character building: Liveship Traders - Robin Hobb
• most unique space novel: Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• smartest narration: The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
• the most cinematic novel: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• hardest science fiction: Diaspora

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Truly the most unique alien story I’ve ever seen.

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Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

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Author: Gene Wolfe

The first book of The Book of the New Sun, the series hailed by countless people as the greatest science fiction of all time. A few years ago when I first saw it mentioned by some Redditors, I was immediately intrigued by it because of its badass name. However, it has no Chinese translation, so I just left it on my maybe-one-day list until I picked up reading in English again a few months ago.

Overall a really disappointing and immensely overrated trilogy. The series started well with one of the most special novels I’ve ever written, The Fifth Season, but the latter two books, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, were very underwhelming and lacking in creativity. Really underserving of all the rewards they got.

Since my first-authored paper was accepted to IEEE WCNC 2023, held in Glasgow this year, and the spring break of Taiwan was luckily right after the conference, I had the opportunity to do a small subsidized solo trip in Scotland for about 10 days (excluding flights).