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GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME
A SF Collection by Yen-tu Yeh (Taiwan)
Translated by
Josh Dyer
*The landmark Chinese SF collection
*Winner of the China Times Science Fiction Award
*Comp with Ken Liu and Ted Chiang
*Official "Books from Taiwan" Selection
Disaster, biological warfare, environmental catastrophe, and resistance to hegemony. No, it's not a description of 2020; it's Yen-tu Yeh's science fiction collection, GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME. Originally published in 1987 and has never gone out of print, these stories reflect a dystopian future so resonant with our own, it's almost like they came out yesterday.
Set in a fictional East Asia, the four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. "Green Monkey Syndrome" describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; "The Gaoka File" tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy's patriarchal culture; "I Love Thee, Winona" and "The Lost Bird" describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bio-weapons through migrating birds.
These stories, fortified by the author's own extensive research, paint a picture of transnational warfare and brutal environmental imbalance that will chill the blood of anyone who has been reading this year's news. Yeh's surgically precise language and compelling narratives read like 1984 meets BRAVE NEW WORLD meets the front page of the New York Times.
Yen-tu Yeh (b.1949) is an Assistant Professor of History and Creative Writing at Soochow University. He worked for one of Taiwan's most important newspaper for 27 years. He has written several books on Chinese history. GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME is his only work of science fiction.
Josh Dyer
*The landmark Chinese SF collection
*Winner of the China Times Science Fiction Award
*Comp with Ken Liu and Ted Chiang
*Official "Books from Taiwan" Selection
Disaster, biological warfare, environmental catastrophe, and resistance to hegemony. No, it's not a description of 2020; it's Yen-tu Yeh's science fiction collection, GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME. Originally published in 1987 and has never gone out of print, these stories reflect a dystopian future so resonant with our own, it's almost like they came out yesterday.
Set in a fictional East Asia, the four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. "Green Monkey Syndrome" describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; "The Gaoka File" tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy's patriarchal culture; "I Love Thee, Winona" and "The Lost Bird" describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bio-weapons through migrating birds.
These stories, fortified by the author's own extensive research, paint a picture of transnational warfare and brutal environmental imbalance that will chill the blood of anyone who has been reading this year's news. Yeh's surgically precise language and compelling narratives read like 1984 meets BRAVE NEW WORLD meets the front page of the New York Times.
Yen-tu Yeh (b.1949) is an Assistant Professor of History and Creative Writing at Soochow University. He worked for one of Taiwan's most important newspaper for 27 years. He has written several books on Chinese history. GREEN MONKEY SYNDROME is his only work of science fiction.
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Published 2023-05-11 by China Times Publishing Company |