Ni Kuang died on Sunday in Hong Kong, with local media reporting skin cancer as the cause of death. Photo: HKTDC
Celebrated Chinese science fiction novelist Ni Kuang died in Hong Kong on June 3, according to a South China Morning Post report. He was 87.
In a prolific career that began in the early 1960s, the China-born Ni Kuang - either Shanghai or Ningbo, with differing reports - worked his way up as a writer in the Hong Kong scene. He specialised in science fiction and martial arts writing, persistently cross-pollinating both worlds. His groundbreaking works, which started a trend of writing across genres in Hong Kong first gained an audience through local newspapers (such as Ming Pao), before attracting fans around the world.
