Born in 1965, Han Song is a Chinese science fiction writer and a journalist at the state news agency, Xinhua News Agency. His first short story collection, Gravestone of the Universe (宇宙墓碑), was published in 1981 in the Taiwanese journal Huanxiang (幻象). He has received the Chinese Galaxy Award for fiction six times. His novel Hospital, translated by Michael Berry, was published in March 2023.