Hai Tang Books announced their English license for Blue Dust Trilogy, a collection of sci-fi danmei short stories by Chu Tu. No artist is credited for the promotional artwork. [Source: Twitter/X]
The publisher’s announcement reads as follows:
#haitangbookslicense
The Blue Dust Trilogy (浅蓝三部曲) is officially coming to English readers in 2026! 📚✨
We’ll be releasing the author-revised versions of Cerulean Planet(浅蓝惑星), The Observer(观察者), and Weightless(失重), with the original flavor preserved and further refined exclusively for the English version.
And before anyone asks: yes, the juicy parts are staying. 😉
This marks the first dedicated social media license announcement for the series. Hai Tang was known to have had this English license since at least their debut in January 2025, when they disclosed said information in a now-deleted Twitter/X post. The series has also been listed on their official site since launch.
Blue Dust Trilogy will be released as a single volume (Source: Twitter/X), with an exclusive extra promised. Hai Tang has not disclosed a preorder or release date at time of writing, but their social media post implies it will be on store shelves in 2026.
Blue Dust Trilogy
浅蓝三部曲
[Synopsis Provided by Hai Tang Books:]
What does it mean to be human when bodies, species, memory, even time itself can be left behind?
Across oceans and stars, lives collide, separate, and find one another again in forms neither science nor language can fully contain. Here, love is not merely desire, but recognition: the moment one consciousness truly sees another. Against the vast indifference of the universe, mortality becomes not a weakness but a source of meaning.
We are brief, changing, fragile. Yet through memory, connection, and the act of witnessing, perhaps nothing we love is ever entirely lost.
Blue Dust Trilogy (浅蓝三部曲) is a collection of danmei short stories by author Chu Tu. The individual stories in the collection are titled “Cerulean Planet (浅蓝惑星)”, “Weightless (失重)”, and “The Observer (观察者)”.
It began serialization in 2017 and ran for 105 chapters, and was originally available to read in Chinese on Afdian.
You can learn more about Blue Dust Trilogy in the DanmeiNews catalog.
Source: Hai Tang Books (Twitter/X)
