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But I feel the need to follow along. ratmmjessproduced an amazing piece of speculative fiction in his review of the most influential SF novels by decade in a world where all the great SF novelists are Chinese. Go take a look. 

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Very clever, and it shows an able weaving together of a great amount of background knowledge. I do wish the author had put in more speculation of what a parallel-Chinese SF novel w/o a real-world analog would have looked like.