WIRED piece on crowd-sourced Chinese sci-fi epic Lingao Qiming goes global, lands in Yale course
kipperrii · x · 2026-10-04
Author afrazhaowang reflects on the unexpected journey of a January WIRED piece about Morning Star of Lingao — a crowd-sourced, essentially never-ending sci-fi novel written collaboratively on the Chinese internet, premised on 500 people time-traveling to the Ming dynasty to industrialize China.
- A Yale scholar assigned it as required reading in a "China in the World" course and may feature it in a public lecture
- The author was invited to write a follow-up for European publication Le Grand Continent, publishing in French and Spanish in April
- He also discussed the story on Kaiser Kuo's podcast
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