Hao Jingfang

Personal life Hao is married and has a daughter. The novel follows the eighteen-year-old Luoying and her friends, who return to their home planet of Mars after five years on Earth. A review in Strange Horizons says that "two key themes are the difficulty of understanding another culture from within one’s own, and the difficulty of understanding one’s own culture from within it". It also expresses the opinion that this combination of two original novels downplays "Vagabonds’ philosophical content to match more familiar English-language expectations of space-faring SF."

Short stories

The Last Brave Man (最后一个勇敢的人) A dystopian consciousness transfer between clones story. Appeared in Spring 2013 magazine of translations from Chinese Pathlight. The title refers to the finale, when the last clone of a politically persecuted man on a run is caught and executed. Invisible Planets (看不见的星球), first published in Chinese in New Science Fiction in February–April 2010, first published in English in Lightspeed Magazine in December 2013, later published in the anthology Invisible Planets, The frame story is the narrator is telling to another person stories about different planets. The reviewer Stephanie Chan asserts that the title is inspired by Italo Calvino's title Invisible Cities. "" (过年回家), first published in Chinese in January 2017 in ELLE China, first published in English in the anthology Broken Stars, , 2020; German translation: Der Neujahrszug, in the German anthology of Chinese science fiction Zerbrochene Sterne, the counterpart of English anthology Broken Stars, 2020 A train equipped with a new type of space-time drive disappears for 6 hours but reappears at the destination on time. For the passengers, however, several days have passed on train. , 2017, translated in German as Wo bist du?" in the anthology , 2020 An artificial doppelgänger story "Qiankun and Alex" (乾坤和亚⼒), first published 2017 in Mirror of Man, later published in the anthology Sinopticon, A global-scale AI learns by observing how children learn.