Dr. Shikuo Chang is a science fiction writer and computer scientist famous for his short stories and novels. Dr. Chang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from National Taiwan University, he came to the United States in 1966 as a student at University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science where he earned his PhD. He currently teaches computer science at the University of Pittsburgh and travels the world teaching and lecturing.
This past year is one of further development and creative harvest of Dr. Chang's personal science fiction.
In the Fall of 2018, Dr. Chang published his collection of short stories "Ten Billion Names of the Devil" in a dual Chines/English version. In June, 2017 Director Wu Jinyuan of Beijing Joy Films and CEO Hai Ziqing expressed interest in adapting the "City" trilogy to the TV sci-fi album. After a productive week of discussions in Chicago, a consensus was built to gradually develop TV sci-fi albums and movies.
In August, 2017, Cr. Chang completed the "Haimo" trilogy. In October, "Golden World" was serialized in the World Journal. Dr. Chang was invited by the Global Chinese Writing Center of the National Taiwan Normal University.
In the past two decades, Chang has written two sets of science fiction trilogies. It took a full ten years to write the "City" trilogy, after which he paused for a few years, and then re-started the "Haimo" trilogy. These two trilogies may be adapted into film and TV albums in the future.
Shikuo Chang's City Trilogy presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a ruthless and overpowering enemy. In Five Jade Disks, the first book in the trilogy, the imperialistic Shan have enslaved the inhabitants of Sunlon City and imposed a harsh martial order. As the Shan fight to retain control of the restless Huhui natives, an unstable rebel alliance prepares to win back its homeland.
Shikuo Chang's novel, The Chess King, was translated into English and German, made into a stage musical, then a TV mini-series and a movie. It was adopted as textbook for foreign students studying Chinese at the Stanford Center (Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies administered by Stanford University), Taipei, Taiwan. The German translation of the Chess King was published by Horlemann in October 1992. In 1992, Chess King was adopted as supplementary reading for high school students in Hong Kong.