Wang Zhenzhen, a sci-fi writer and a games writer, is known for telling realistic stories in a humorous style. His stories “Minesweeper” and “Whose Funeral,” published in Science Fiction World, were respectively selected as The Sci-Fi Stories of the Year for 2018 & 2019. He won the Fifth Morning Star Awards for Best Short Story for “The Orbiting Guan Erye,” and won the Second Dook Book Awards for Best Short Story for “The Hanging Tower of Babel.”

Wang Zhenzhen has the following works available at Clarkesworld:

The Hanging Tower of Babel

SHORT STORY by Wang Zhenzhen, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan in Issue 221 – February 2025

“Hey there—comrade—are you also part of the—Space Industry—Development Program—First Cohort? I’m Zhang Haoyu—second lieutenant—pleased to meet you.” The man in front of me spoke in choppy fragments. He extended his […]

The Orbiting Guan Erye

SHORT STORY by Wang Zhenzhen, translated by Carmen Yiling Yan in Issue 174 – March 2021

“Old Liu, what do you say we keep a bird here in the space station?” I turned my head and asked, setting down my tablet. Old Liu’s full name was […]
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