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UFO in Her Eyes
Written by Xiaolu Guo
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Average Score:
66(3)
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. It's not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surveillance. As UFO Hotels spring up, and the local villagers go out of business, Xiaolu Guo's startling parable of change imagines an uneasy future for rural China and its relations not only with Beijing but the wider world beyond.
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Book Details
Science Fiction
Hardcover,
200 Pages
Published
by Chatto & Windus on January 01, 2009
ISBN-10 0701183365
ISBN-13 978-0701183363
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Reviews
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SF Site
| Paul Kincaid
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Review Rating: 80
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It is a slim novella, easy to read and charming in its manner, but it packs a disturbing punch.
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Strange Horizons
| Richard Larson
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Review Rating: 60
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The book ultimately reads like a parable, a very direct series of events related by the author to impart a moral lesson, rather than a more fully fleshed out narrative that could have transcended the book's essayistic heft.
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Strange Horizons
| Karen Burnham
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Review Rating: 60
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UFO in Her Eyes gives us an interesting portrait, lightly sketched, of rural Chinese trying their best to manage the multiple forces bearing down on them; traditionalism and modernization play out a tug of war on this small stage.
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