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“Science Fiction”: A Chapter of Daughter - Lo Yi-Chin (2014)
This was another excerpt. I think this was meant to be intentionally disorienting. By the end I felt like I was in a fever dream. I don't know what this was about and maybe this excerpt wasn't enough to know. It's something about an underground facility and they're trying to perfect female androids, at least his project is, but there are many projects. There's also something about lectures, dreaming, and imaginary worlds. The references are all over the place. There is French-Italian movies; Swiss-German art; Peruvian, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Chinese, and Japanese literature; Japanese PC games; manga; Batman; Sesame Street; and myriad more. All in all, an interesting experience.
Excerpts are Unrated

Balin - Chen Qiufan (2015)
At thirteen his father gave him a mythological humanoid as a slave. In the present, he conducts a experiment studying the correlation between motor control and free will.
Meh

The Radio Waves That Never Die - La La (2007)
On planet Lathmu the sole researcher studying radio waves comes across a startling tragedy from 100 billion seconds ago. It's the story of the humanity's search for a new planet after Earth had been destroyed by a supernova.
Ok

1923: A Fantasy - Zhao Haihong (2004)
A man opens a chest passed down from his great-grandfather. Inside are sealed bottles of water and notes about water memory, a pseudoscience. As he reads about the Aqua Dream Machine, he wonders whether it was science ahead of its time.
Meh

The Passengers and the Creator - Han Song (2005)
All the world he knows is a Boeing 7X7. Passengers are stratified by their socioeconomic status. First Class cannibalizes Economy class and has exclusive sexual access to their women. Economy class men are subjected to enforced homosexuality. The economy class male protagonist meets a stranger who reveals the secrets of the world to him.
Blah

The Reincarnated Giant - Wang Jinkang (2005)
A man, one of the wealthiest in the world, decides to cheat death by having his brain transplanted into an anencephalic infant. The protagonist is his surgeon. It's successful, but neither of them expected that his physical growth would be unlimited. This was a hilarious satire.
Enjoyable

The Rain Forest - Chi Hui (2007)
Plants have been plotting for over a billion years to take back the world from animals.
Blah

The Demon's Head - Fei Dao (2007)
A General who has committed crimes against humanity is assassinated and only his brain remains. It's decided that evil comes from the body, not the brain.
Meh

Songs of Ancient Earth - Bao Shu (2012)
A hyperspace ship travels 650 light to study the star Alpha Orionis. On a tiny planet by the star they find an ancient human spacecraft. An additional mystery of songs emanating from the star baffles them. From then on it's a political horror story.
Meh