A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELAward-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2019. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Annually, we produce around 359 million tonnes of plastic with the global market being valued at USD 568.9 billion in 2019, and projected to reach almost USD 1 trillion by 2035. It is a near future story about social and cultural conflict in China. The syringe tide was an environmental disaster during 1987–88 in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York where significant amounts of medical waste, including hypodermic syringes, and raw garbage washed up onto beaches on the Jersey Shore, in New York City, and on Long Island.This forced the closing of beaches on the Atlantic coast. The story takes place in the imaginary ''Silicon Isle''. And it is Shantou where Chen Qiufan was born and grew up before he entered Peking University. The energy transition started gaining traction once society recognised that climate change is a problem. Something went wrong. His first novel, The Waste Tide, was published in China in 2013. Unable to add item to List. The people who live there process the waste, and there are several clans who jockey for power on the island. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. 3:35 AM MDT on Apr 22, 2021. Definitely. Irene Galan/UN Environment / 19 Jun 2019. Into this conglomerate of business interests, clan loyalty, ancient, spiritual believes two American businessmen enter with a proposal for a green recycling investment that would make more money for the clans and clean up the polluted silicon island. Talking about the background of writing the novel, Chen said: ''Choosing my hometown as background to write the story, is related to my thinking of China. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. Ken Liu's English translation of The Waste Tide has been acquired by Tor, the American fantasy and science fiction press that published Liu's award-winning translation of The Three-Body Problem (Liu 2016). Some romance – Chinese style - interwoven lighten up the plot. . Coffee. Lives in Brooklyn with a +1. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. ―Maggie Shen King, author of An Excess Male“Filled with wonderful invention, compelling characters and a whirlpool of story, Waste Tide is an urgently-needed, thought-provoking wild ride of a novel. Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! I think the setting for the story is a great idea and I'm sure it'd make a good film. Waste Tide is a lengthy thriller on clan rivalry in waste recycling on an island at a South-Chinese costal area in the vicinity of Hong Kong. Wine. Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2020. One of these items ships sooner than the other. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The same goes for Waste Tide and I. I visited Shantou, my … There was a problem loading your book clubs. The Plastic Tide is growing by 8 million metric tonnes a year. Waste Tide is both thrilling and thoughtful in its reflection on the environmental and human costs of global capitalism. "A chilling sci-fi novel about class war and trash in near-future China, and the people the world’s economy leaves behind... Pressingly relevant." For me the whole story was too long and rather written for a nonwestern audience. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Atmosphere is really all this book has going for it, though. Waste Tide is a lengthy thriller on clan rivalry in waste recycling on an island at a South-Chinese costal area in the vicinity of Hong Kong. Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. A fairly nonsensical book about psychic powers gained through a virus. The Rising Tide of E-Waste How Environmental Concerns and Shifting Work Patterns are Shaping Device Management Practices If you would like to set up a one-to-one meeting with one of our team, please fill out the form to request a meeting. The characters, the story line development and world as depicted, all highly engrossing. Good setting though, and the atmosphere is on point. In the Guiyu island, the large electronic recycle industries are in full control of local lineage associations. The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel (The Three-Body Problem Series, 4), Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. Some technological gizmos like “viral batteries” and advanced robotics that are broken down and “recycled” on the island are interesting but do not make a good thriller as such. Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether. is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app. The author’s prose has a wonderful sense of exuberance. Q&A Off the Route: Von Hernandez on 'turning the tide' of plastic pollution Hernandez spoke to Waste Dive about his career as a waste and toxics campaigner, waste dumping in Southeast Asia and the path toward creating mass systemic change around plastics. Waste Tide is both thrilling and thoughtful in its reflection on the environmental and human costs of global capitalism. Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world. Chen Qiufan attributes his inspiration for The Waste Tide to the town Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2019. Charley. My 59 year old son in one state and me in a different state, tried reading this book at the same time so we could talk about it as we read it. Want to listen? slow, then rushed with an unbelievable premise, Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. It is the debut novel by the writer. Waste Tide, Chen Qiufan (Tor 978-0-7653-8931-2, $26.99, 352pp, hc) April 2019.. As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future. Stemming the tide of waste in a polluted river. Please try again. A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. It’s set in a world of advanced elective prostheses and android dogs and a whole economy of microchip recycling. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2021. Cheese. She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics—from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs—are sent to be recycled. Safe e-waste recycling has enormous economic potential, with The constant use of and changing of long names made it more difficult to read the book. Chinese novel The Waste Tide goes where little writing ever does — the recycling industry and class inequality at its heart The greatest lesson of Chinese author Chen Qiufan’s little-known novel, The Waste Tide, may be that trash is frequently invisible to those who create it — as are the people who process it, such as manual scavengers, the labourers in ship breaking yards and so on. Waste Tide is exactly the kind of science fiction I enjoy most. Some of the ideas about the direction of humanity and its technology are very much contemporary concerns and the author is clearly deeply immersed in them, while also alert to the different power relationships between the West and the Rest and within China itself. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. ''[1], The Waste Tide depicts a dystopian China in the post-2020 era. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. ―The Washington Post "Something startlingly new... an action-packed story that's full of moral complexity. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. WASTE TIDE. I enjoyed Waste Tide’s cultural, economic and political insights, and its mysticism. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). – David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas. It is set on Silicon Isle 硅屿, a homophone of Guiyu 贵屿, the real-life capital of electronic waste processing near Chen’s hometown of Shantou, Guangdong. I enjoyed being reminded that it is still work for many in this near-future techno thriller. There are themes that science fiction has been exploring since HG Wells up-dated for our times. Wine. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges. The Waste Tide is set in Silicon Isle, a vast waste dump where electronic devices and components, which is based somewhat in reality - Chen’s hometown is near one of the world’s largest e-waste recycling centre. A class war ignites, one that draws in environmental extremists and waste workers, and involves family feuds and darker conspiracies. In the real world, Guiyu is a town in the Shantou prefecture of Guangdong province in China. Taking place on a grimy coastal island called Silicon Isle, off the southern coast of China, known to the world as the recycling center for discarded electronic waste. Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2019. Waste Tide by Chen Quifan 347 pages Published by Tor, 2019 Genre: Sci-fi Re-readability: I probably won’t revisit this realistic dystopia Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2020. Cutting-edge, near-future science fiction from China: With a setting based on a real-world Chinese town that recycled electronic waste from all over the world, Chen's (aka Stanley Chan) first and so far only novel, originally published in 2013, comes to vibrant life in Liu's deft and informative translation. It all changes when a ship bearing a dangerous cargo arrives at Silicon Isle. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. The laborers who undertake dangerous work for the profit of the Chinese and foreign businessmen who employ them are depicted not as humans, but cyborgs whose bodies and minds have been altered permanently through bio-engineering.[2]. Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 It is interesting to read a science fiction novel which has a very different viewpoint, especially politically, to the usual American one. Up to 100,000 people work in the informal electronic waste sector in Nigeria, processing half a million tonnes of discarded appliances every year. What looks like normal e-waste, is actually infected by a virus born out of one of the darkest episodes of WWII, Project Waste Tide. 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