There is a well-established mainland market for sci fi, and the bulk of it is straightforward tales of robots and aliens. Many of them appear in Science Fiction World magazine. Founded in 1979, it has around 200,000 readers, most of them schoolchildren and college students. Its circulation has halved over the past decade as readers have migrated online.The London Revew of Books, LRB, talks about the state of science fiction in China.