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This is our fifth story for the month of August 2017, issue 131.

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Our fifth story for the month of August

is titled A Man Out of Fashion.

It is by Chen Quifant, translated by Ken Liu.

Chen Liu Fen was born in 1981 in Shantu, China, in accordance with Chinese custom, Mr. Chen's surname is written first.

He sometimes uses the English name Stanley Chan.

He is a graduate of Peking University and published his first short story in

1997 in Science Fiction World, China's largest science fiction magazine. Since 2004, he has published over 30 stories in science fiction world, Esquire,

Hutspah, and other magazines. His first novel The Abyss of Vision came out in 2006. He won Taiwan's Dragon Fantasy Award in 2006

with a record of the cave of Ning Mountain, a work written in classical Chinese. His story, The Tomb, was translated in English and Italian

and can be found in the Apex Book of World SF2 and alias six. He now lives in Beijing and works for Google China. and

a alias for Google China. You can find Mr. Chen at his website,

site dot Duban.com

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