The vague correlation between the popularity of a literary genre and the age of human society becomes tangible when looking retrospectively at the rise and the decline of a particular generic form at a certain historical moment.Doubtlessly,science fiction has become one of the most popular genres of today’s generation.No matter in terms of what disciplinary field our times is defined-information era,globalization,or the broad postmodernism-science fiction prevails worldwide.The rise of Chinese science fiction in recent years,in particular sci-firealism,has been demonstrated by Chinese authors who have gained international recognition and an on-going heated discussion on Chinese social networks,raising questions about the origin of the genre of science fiction,which has long been believed to be exclusively Western.