My Family's Flying Saucer

My Family's Flying Saucer is a full-length science fiction novel by the web novelist Robot No. 18. It began serialization on Qidian Chinese Network on July 21, 2014, and concluded on March 31, 2025, totaling roughly 1.6 million characters across 691 chapters. The story begins with an utterly ordinary online purchase: the protagonist, Su Mo, buys a flying saucer model on Taobao, and when it arrives it is already ninety percent battle-damaged. To his astonishment, what looks like a plastic toy turns out to be a genuine spacecraft. Opening the hatch, he meets two alien visitors with goat heads who call themselves Goat Star People—they claim to love peace, regard Su Mo as one of their own, and solemnly declare that they can turn excrement into gold and that having two horns on one's head is more in keeping with cosmic aesthetics. From then on, Su Mo's life is turned upside down: he travels across different planes with these two unreliable companions, playing a god in some worlds and acting as an ordinary person in others, even testing a particle weapon on a dragon to see how tough its hide is. The work features system-flow and time-space-flow settings, moves at a brisk pace, and brims with bantering dialogue. With "lighthearted and cheerful" as its creative keynote, it turns interstellar adventure into everyday comedy. The author has said he enjoys depicting diverse planetary civilizations, so the worlds in the book unfold one after another; the adventures keep coming but rarely feel heavy, making it suitable as a relaxing, stress-relieving light science fiction read.