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Quick note that the translation for Galaxy's Breadth (苍穹会所, cang qiong hui suo), the six chapter sci-fi short story by Yi Zhan Ye Deng from her short story collection All About Summer, is now complete! 

I definitely had an interesting time with this one because of the futuristic elements and the really romantic descriptions, which is something that I think is a bit different from Yi Zhan Ye Deng compared to If I Could Mail You A Book. I think that I lack some  'romantic cells' since I had a hard time translating the date in chapter 3. Ironically, I'm probably what people would consider a hopeless romantic, so I guess the two are not related haha. 

Once again, here is a link to the table of contents page.

Also, honestly, at least half of the reason why I translated this story was to have people to discuss it with, since I think it's so very unique in terms of themes and depictions, so if anyone would like to come back to this post and discuss with me I'd be so willing!!

Here's a note on massive spoilers for the story, BEWARE! )




Lastly, Happy (late) Year of the Snake everybody and here's to a ssssuper year of baihe :3
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One could say it's ironic that I choose to translate a story from Yi Zhan Ye Deng's short story collection All About Summer during the wintery months for me, but with this story, I somehow think that both seasons are quite fitting for it. 

As the title of the collection suggests, Galaxy's Breadth (苍穹会所 cang qiong hui suo) is also a story about summer, but a summer in the far off future, where science and technology are much more advanced. The main characters, Xu Yuan and Mu Bai, meet during a fateful summer, and their story develops around their relationship in contrast to society's perspectives. 

Thus, I need to put a slight warning out here, the reason why I think this story is both summer and winter is because it tackles some heavy subjects, chilling and perhaps a little too realistic despite the sci-fi setting. Reader discretion is advised. 

For more spoilery trigger warnings: )

The story has six chapters, or more like 5 chapters + an epilogue, at a total of around 20k characters. This first posting is the first two chapters, and I plan on finishing the rest hopefully before the end of January. 

Here's a link dump:

Table of Contents landing page
Chapter 1
tweet about it
bluesky post about it


Lastly, Happy New Year everybody!

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