Morning Star Awards literature and art enthusiasts of "Morning Star" gather in Shenzhen for a party, it turns out that the science fiction industry can play like this

On the afternoon of November 26th, the second "Morning Star" Science Fiction Literature Award and the first "Morning Star" Science Fiction Art Award, jointly organized by China's first science fiction public welfare fund - Shenzhen Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation, Nanshan District Science and Technology Association of Shenzhen, and Futian District Cultural and Sports Bureau of Shenzhen, were held in Shenzhen.

The award ceremony, themed "The Legend of 'Star' Fire," reviewed the development of science fiction creation and industry in China during the award ceremony. Yu Zhisheng, Deputy Secretary of the Futian District Committee and Director of the Social Work Committee of Shenzhen, and Zhang Hanguo, Executive Vice Chairman of the Nanshan Association for Science and Technology, attended the award ceremony.

This year's two "Morning Star" science fiction awards have further expanded the scale of the competition, increased the prize money and total funding, while maintaining their public welfare nature and continuing to fund unfinished long science fiction works. All 16 awards awarded a total of 305000 yuan in prize money and 80000 yuan in funding, which has more than doubled the scale and total amount of prize money compared to last year.

The close cooperation between the "Morning Star" Science Fiction Literature Award and the industry

This year's "Morning Star" Science Fiction Literature Award received 462 submissions from over 300 authors nationwide, totaling over 10 million words, including 47 unfinished novels. The two newly added awards of Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay this year have received a total of 46 submitted script works, which fully reflects the interest and attention of science fiction authors in China's science fiction film and television creation.

After evaluation by a panel of renowned science fiction writers and online voting, Tan Gang's "Three Days and Moon," Wu Fugang's "Love Towards the End of the World," "Foolish God," and Carnation's "Kun" won the four major awards for Best Novel, Best Short Story, Best Micro Science Fiction, and Best Original Science Fiction Script, respectively. The awards for Best Medium length Novel and Best Adapted Science Fiction Script were vacant. Li Yipeng's "Perfect Era" won the Future Star Award, and the Science Fiction Association of Southern University of Science and Technology was awarded the Special Contribution Award. Grey Fox's "Solid Ocean" has received recognition from the literary supervisor of the Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation and renowned science fiction writer Wang Jinkang, becoming the winner of this year's "Jinkang Award". Dong Renwei, one of the founders of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association, and renowned science fiction writers Wang Jinkang, Han Song, Xia Jia, Jiang Bo, and other guests presented trophies and award certificates to the award-winning authors.

The close cooperation with the industry has always been one of the prominent features of the "Morning Star" Science Fiction Literature Award, and it is also a reflection of the "growth oriented" thinking of the Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation for the development of China's science fiction industry. This competition has established two special awards, the "Micro Image Discovery Award" and the "Lazy Listening to Books Audio Novel Award", funded by Micro Image Culture and Lazy Listening to Books respectively. The awards are specifically designed to discover and reward science fiction works that are suitable for adaptation into other types and have great market development potential. At the award ceremony, the initiator of the fund also announced a cooperation plan with BGI Genomics Blue Rainbow. Both parties will collect science fiction works related to the field of genetic health through the establishment of special awards, allowing the public to better understand cutting-edge science and technology while gathering everyone's efforts to draw a blueprint for the future development of genetic technology.

The morning star of art is rising, and guests from all walks of life are joining in the grand event

The "Morning Star" Science Fiction Art Award, which was first selected this year, was funded by the Special Fund for the Development of Propaganda, Culture and Sports in Futian District, Shenzhen, and received strong support from universities such as Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, and Chengdu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The organizing committee received a total of 413 valid submissions, including 32 animation works, 343 single comic/illustration works, 23 picture books/comic works, and 15 new media works.

After being evaluated by professional judges and voted by netizens, Chen Ansheng's "Civilization Invasion Concept Design Series", Huang Junhao's "Explosion", Tang Kun's "Magic Valley", Zhang Wenlong's "Magic World", Chen Zanwei's studio's "Energy Conversion Series", and Deng Huang's "Space Time" won the Best Science Fiction Concept Design Gold Award, Best Single Science Fiction Comic, Best Science Fiction Illustration Design, Best Science Fiction Poster Design, Best Digital Special Effects Short Film, and Best Science Fiction Animation Short Film respectively. The "Civilization Invasion Concept Design Series" also won the Most Innovative Award of this year. At the same time, awards such as Excellent Guidance Teacher and Excellent Organizational Unit were presented on-site, as well as the Mercury Award established with the support of Hangzhou Mercury Culture. Awards such as Special Award, Best Creative Award, and Best Scene Award were also presented.

At the shining awards ceremony and dinner, experts and industry insiders such as Niu Chuang, senior special effects artist at ILM Film Special Effects Company (London Studio), Chen Bo, columnist at Blizzard Gallery and fist signed illustrator for World of Warcraft, Guo Lei, executive director of Monkey King Returns, Chen Zanwei, director of the School of Visual Arts and Design at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Luo Lan, director of Hunan Broadcasting and Television Golden Eagle Cartoon Channel, Peng Aiqun, deputy director, He Zili, deputy general manager of Global Digital, and Xu Mingjun, president of SIGGRAPH Shenzhen Branch, had extensive exchanges and discussions on issues such as Chinese science fiction art and science fiction film and television production, in addition to watching the ceremony and presenting awards to the winners.

The keynote speech inspires public enthusiasm for science fiction, funds act as matchmakers, and science fiction professionals from both sides of the Taiwan Strait discuss the development path of Chinese science fiction

On the morning of the award ceremony, renowned science fiction writer Xia Jia, who won the Best Newcomer Award at the Galaxy Awards and was the first humanities student in China to appear in Nature magazine, renowned artist Shark Dan, who is a senior science fiction literature illustrator and multiple winners of the Galaxy Award at the Chinese Nebula Awards, and Xiao Zhuangyue, Chairman of Guangzhou XRCGschool and founder of XRCGteam, delivered three wonderful lectures to science fiction enthusiasts in Shenzhen.

They approached the audience from different perspectives, vividly and interestingly introducing the opportunities and challenges faced by Chinese science fiction creation and the science fiction industry in a simple and understandable way, winning rounds of warm applause. Lin Jianqun, assistant professor at Zhili University of Science and Technology in Taiwan and judge of the Global Chinese Language Nebula Award, Dong Renwei, one of the founders of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association, and Taiwanese science fiction writer Li Ziqing, specially invited by the Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation, also took this opportunity to exchange and discuss ideas and measures for jointly developing the Chinese language science fiction industry with friends and science fiction enthusiasts in mainland China.

At the event, Mr. Ma Guobin, one of the initiators of the Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation, stated that Chinese science fiction not only needs to "go out" and win more awards, but also needs to find ways to "invite in" others, so that science fiction professionals from other countries and regions can bring their experience in science fiction creation and the development of science fiction related industries to China. Only in this way can we exchange ideas, learn from each other's strengths, and make up for our weaknesses, so that China's local science fiction can better develop and inherit the science fiction torch left by our predecessors. The Science & Fantasy Growth Foundation will also do its utmost to achieve this goal. Science fiction enthusiasts across the country are invited to wait and see.