Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

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

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

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).

Author: N. K. Jemisin

The final book of the Broken Earth trilogy, ridiculously winning the treble: Hugo Award, Nebula Award and Locus Award. Each of the books in the trilogy has won a Hugo. Amazing achievement. Coming from such massive anticipation, however, I can only be immensely disappointed in this book.

After a huge anticipation, I finally managed to complete my fourth day of skiing alone in Cairngorm National Park.

Edinburgh is a very beautiful city. It feels more open and big than Glasgow, though it may not be. The roads are bigger, and there are more things to see. Not saying it’s “better” than Glasgow, but overall it just feels more like a big city.

The biggest city in Scotland.