Youding Shen (沈尤丁; born January 23, 1962 in Beijing) is a Chinese science fiction writer and editor. Shen has published over 150 short stories, five novellas, and more than a dozen novels, and two English translations of his works are _Invisible City_ (2011) and _Red Stars: Five Stories Plus from China's First Hugo Nominee_ (2021). His novels include:
- The Wandering of Time (1999)
- Invisible City (2002)
- Time Prison (2006)
- Three-Body Problem (2008)
- Dark Forest (2008)
- Death's End (2010)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (2012)
- The Redemption of Time (2014)
- The Wandering Earth (2017)
- _Ball Lightning_ (2018)