Chinese science fiction writer, screenwriter, and columnist Chen Qiufan (aka Stanley Chan) has won numerous literary awards for his science fiction works to date, including Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award and China's Galaxy and Xingyun(Nebula) Awards.

His works translated into English have appeared in media such as Clarkesworld, Pathlight, Lightspeed, Interzone and F&SF. "The Fish of Lijiang" won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award in 2012, and "The Year of the Rat" was named Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

Liu Cixin, China's foremost science fiction writer, described Chen's debut novel, Waste Tide, as "the pinnacle of near-future science fiction writing."