Small Fry

Miscellaneous Fish is a long-form science fiction web novel by Sanshiwu, serialized on Qidian.com starting in 2011 and now completed, totaling over 1.3 million Chinese characters. The story is set after the year 3000 AD: humanity has entered the galactic era, yet constrained by technological limits and individual lifespans, people remain trapped in the prison of time and space, fundamentally no different from the ancient Earth era. Resources are dwindling, and the millennium-long Golden Age is drawing to a close. The powerful and aggressive Germanic Legion bares its fangs once more, forcing Asia and New Rome to respond. War erupts in full force in 3022, and ten years later, Allied armored forces Colonel Huo Chenggong dies in battle. But the story does not end there—in 3016, a sixteen-year-old Huo Chenggong awakens with the complete memories of his future self. Six years remain before the war breaks out, and sixteen before his own death in combat. He walks through the gates of the National Defense Mecha Academy a second time, once again becoming a rookie cadet pilot nicknamed "Miscellaneous Fish" by veteran soldiers. Amid the familiar campus, former classmates, and the war yet to come, he strives to rewrite the ending with everything he remembers. The novel centers on military academy growth and interstellar mecha combat, interwoven with themes of youth, friendship, and sacrifice. The title "Miscellaneous Fish" is both a self-deprecating nickname for rookies and a subtle reflection of the place of ordinary individuals within the tide of great eras.