Xiao Se 蕭瑟, real name Wu Ming 武鳴 is/was a wuxia author in Taiwan during the 1960s. His first novel was《落星追魂》(Falling Star Soulseeker) in 1963, and he became well known with his other 1963 novel,《碧眼金鵬》(Blue-eyed Golden Peng-bird). He ghostwrote several times for Zhuge Qingyun and Wolong Sheng. His writing style has been described as easy and smooth.¹ In 2003, Xiao Se ended his 30-year retirement and published a new wuxia novel,《霸王神槍》(The Divine Spear of the Hegemon King). From June 2008 to June 2009, he published his first sword transcendent 劍仙 (xianxia 仙俠) novel,《仙劍神刀》(Transcendent Sword, Divine Sabre). At the end of this ten-volume light novel, Xiao Se wrote an afterword in which he talked about about the sword transcendent genre and its relation to wuxia and western fantasy. I have translated that afterword in full below: