The return of 'golden age' science fiction - made in China

Like many, many people across China, I had the pleasure of watching the movie version of Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth during Spring Festival.

I love science fiction, but, with a few exceptions, the recent movies and books from the United States have been such insipid stories and so philosophically empty that I had almost given up on the genre. Many current sci-fi novels in the US are unreadable, shallow and politically correct dystopias.

As in classic science fiction, the hero and heroine of The Wandering Earth find inner strength as they struggle to achieve something great. Much current US sci-fi clearly doubts the very idea of personal fortitude.