Dear navigator

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Hu Fang s Dear Navigator is a collection of ten short stories that reflect on contemporary society, politics, and the human condition. The author takes us on a journey across time and space to hidden realities where we meet culture workers, astronauts, airplanes, Zen masters, and hunger artists. The title story Dear Navigator is a collection of letters written during a 520-day simulated space mission to Mars to test if humans can endure travel from Earth to Mars and back again. Whale Song tells the story of XP, a lonely male escort, as he goes on a surreal journey to self-realization, and The Shame of Participation tells a tale of two thieving artists who legally steal objects from those living in a city in desperation. When the reality turns into fiction, and the science fiction becomes reality, Hu draws on the experience of everyday life, the past, and the unknown future to create stories of otherworldly melancholy and humor.