Children walk past space suits of the Chinese sci-fi movie 'The Wandering Earth' on display at the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention in Chengdu, in China. Photo: AFP
In a sleek silver building designed to look like an expanding nebula, thousands of delighted Chinese science fiction fans gathered this week for a massive international convention.
The World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, globally the oldest and most influential sci-fi event, has never been held in China before.
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