Ran Zhang

Zhang Ran (, born 12 December 1981 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China) is a Chinese science fiction writer.

Life

Zhang Ran completed a Master in computer science at Beijing Jiaotong University. After working in IT industry for a while, he became a reporter and message analyst at Economic Daily and China Economic Net. During that time, his new comments earned him a China News Award. His stories have furthermore won several golden and silver Nebula Awards as well as three Galaxy Awards for the best novelette. Zhang Ran owns a café and writes in his free time. Ether depicts a setting in which disinformation nanobots can control light and sounds waves. To rebel against "the disappearance of revolutionary spirit from the Internet," a "Finger Chatting Society" forms, the members of which communicate by drawing characters on to each other's hands. and published in the Clarkesworld Magazine in July 2017. Master Zhao: The Tale of an Ordinary Time Traveler; published in the Clarkesworld Magazine in December 2018.