Ji Yongbin is an author whose main creative focus is science fiction. Publicly available information about his nationality, dates of birth and death, education, and writing career is limited, so a complete personal biography cannot yet be outlined. Nevertheless, the two works collected here—Shepherd No. 1 and The Answer—offer a general sense of his writing. Both are categorized as science fiction, suggesting that the author tends to build narratives within a speculative framework, using futuristic settings or unknown situations to explore his characters' circumstances and choices. The title Shepherd No. 1 carries a clear sense of numbering, seeming to point to some artificial object, project, or craft, and revealing both technological imagination and symbolic intent; The Answer is more abstract, possibly centering on a puzzle, a quest, or a conclusion. Overall, Ji Yongbin's output is currently small in scale but concentrated in subject matter, with a style that tends to let concepts drive the story and to create suspense and room for reflection within a limited space. Because the available material remains insufficient, the broader impact of his work and readers' assessments still await longer observation and accumulation.
