Ma, Yiming
Entry updated 7 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1989- ) Chinese-born financial analyst and author, in US and Canada from childhood. His first novel, These Memories do Not Belong to Us (2025), is a collection of linked stories he has dubbed a "constellation novel": in this case, an array of tales, told through the coercive mediation of an intracranial device known as the Mindblank lodged in the hippocampus. In a moderately distant Near Future world which a Chinese empire has come to dominate, the tales here constellated cannot be fully trusted, as they are all subsequent to mediation. The world itself is clearly represented by Ma as itself only to be "understood" within the terms of a globally curated consensus as to what can be told (or thought) by human purveyors of story. [JC]
Yiming Ma
born Shanghai, China: 1989
works
- These Memories do Not Belong to Us (New York: HarperCollins/Mariner Books, 2025) [hb/]
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