Legend

Name: Legend
ISBN: 9787576242836

龙渊明Jiangxi Higher Education Press · ChinaJul 2026

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Word count: 99K words
Chapters: 16
ISBN: 9787576242836

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Summary

This is a collection of novellas and short stories containing three stylistically distinct works. "Legend" draws inspiration from the film Ne Zha and uses the historical figure Li Bing's construction of Dujiangyan as its background and thread, passionately celebrating the extraordinary creativity of the Bashu people. Given the remoteness of the historical period, the author employs a fantasy narrative style, endowing the completion of Dujiangyan with a magnificent and fantastical color. "The Bloodstained Notebook" is a science fiction story set more than three hundred years in the future: an era of highly advanced AI and humanity's entry into interstellar exploration. The work centers on the core event of an ambitious schemer attempting to invade Earth's AI central system with a virus, thereby triggering a crisis, aiming to reveal a profound theme: even if future human civilization develops to great heights, humanity's own problems are far more severe than the challenges the universe brings us. "The First War with AI Beings" focuses on the social problems that may arise after the popularization of AI robots in the coming decades and the impact on human civilization, a work imbued with humanistic care.

Editor's review

Legend is a collection of three novellas and short stories that span a wide range of subjects yet share a hidden thread: how people conduct themselves in the face of immense power. "Legend" takes Li Bing's construction of Dujiangyan as its historical backbone and uses a fantasy style to elaborate the creativity of the Bashu people, rendering a distant historical event magnificent and spirited; "The Bloodstained Notebook" pushes its lens to an interstellar and AI era more than three hundred years later, using the crisis of a virus invading the AI central system to interrogate humanity's own problems; "The First War with AI Beings" focuses on the social impact after the popularization of AI robots, carrying humanistic care. The three pieces differ in style, allowing readers to experience three ways of reading in one book: historical fantasy, science fiction crisis, and near-future social allegory. Notably, the author is not content with genre pleasure but uses genre shells to discuss creativity, human weaknesses, and the cost of civilization. Suited for readers interested in cross-boundary imagination and technological ethics, and also suitable for segmented reading as a collection.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who enjoy novella and short story collections and want to experience multiple genres in one book.
Readers interested in the history of Dujiangyan and Bashu culture who can accept a fantasy style.
Science fiction readers concerned with AI ethics, interstellar futures, and techno-social issues.
Readers hoping to encounter historical imagination and future allegory in shorter works.

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting uniform style and a coherent throughline across the three pieces may find it jumpy.
Readers preferring strict historical accuracy and rejecting fantasy fiction should choose carefully.
Readers wanting only a single genre—science fiction or historical fiction—may find it insufficient.

Reading tips

Read "Legend" first to experience the historical fantasy style, then move into the two science fiction works; the contrast will form an interesting juxtaposition.
While reading "The Bloodstained Notebook," note the theme of "humanity's own problems" and consider how the author presents it through crisis narrative.
After all three, compare horizontally: across different eras, how are the immense forces people face similar or different?

About the publisher

Jiangxi Higher Education Press China · Founded in 1989

Jiangxi Higher Education Press publishes in popular reading fields such as mystery and suspense fiction and science fiction, as well as higher education and vocational textbooks and academic works. Representative titles in the catalog include Xia Longhe's *The Curse* and Long Yuanming's *Legend*; the two authors are known respectively for suspenseful storytelling and science-fiction imagination, offering a glimpse of the press's author resources and editorial focus in genre fiction. Public information is limited, and with only two titles currently listed, the catalog cannot fully reflect the press's overall publishing profile. It does confirm, however, that the press has a practical presence in mystery/suspense and science fiction, emphasizing narrative tension and genre expression while balancing textbook and academic publishing with expansion into the popular reading market.

版权信息
传奇
一、鞭打水妖
二、智盗仙丹
三、拳打古榕怪
四、戏耍睨蜥怪
五、怒斩妖猫
六、风云突变
七、山雨欲来
八、决战宝瓶口
九、永远的传奇
带血的笔记
引
上 “太空牧冰计划”中出现的神秘物体
下夺回“地球超级大脑”
与AI人的第一次战争

FAQ

Is "Legend" entirely fictional history?

The materials show that this piece uses the historical figure Li Bing's construction of Dujiangyan as its background and thread, but because the historical period is remote, the author employs a fantasy narrative style, endowing the completion of Dujiangyan with a magnificent and fantastical color. It is thus a写法 that takes real historical events as its skeleton and fantasy imagination as its flesh, and should not be read as strict historical fiction.

How do the two science fiction works differ in theme?

"The Bloodstained Notebook" is set more than three hundred years in the future, an era of highly advanced AI and humanity's interstellar exploration, centering on an ambitious schemer's use of a virus to invade Earth's AI central system, pointing to humanity's own problems being more severe than cosmic challenges. "The First War with AI Beings" focuses on the social problems after the popularization of AI robots in the coming decades and the impact on human civilization, closer to a near-future social allegory.

Are the three pieces connected? Must they be read in order?

The materials do not indicate direct plot connections among the three; they differ in style and span a wide range of subjects. You may read in table-of-contents order or start with the genre that interests you most. To experience the span from historical imagination to future allegory, reading in the original order will be smoother.

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About the author

龙渊明 Author

Long Yuanming is an author for whom publicly available information remains limited; no clear records of nationality or dates of birth and death have been found. The library holds only one work by this author, the science fiction novel Legend. Judging from this single surviving title, Long Yuanming's writing leans toward science fiction, using the framework of genre fiction to develop narratives and construct story worlds somewhere between imagination and speculation. Because verifiable material is still insufficient, it is difficult at present to give a complete account of the author's creative career, the specific features of the writing style, or how the work has circulated and been received; only a brief outline can be drawn from the existing library entry. As the author's representative work, Legend is an important entry point for understanding this writer, allowing readers to sense the basic interests and modes of expression in their science fiction writing. It is hoped that, as more material becomes available, Long Yuanming's profile as an author will emerge more clearly.