In 2002 summer, a new book titled RECENT ADVANCES IN FASTER THAN LIGHT RESEARCH by Prof. Huang Zhixun was published, covering a wide field of theoretical and experimental progress in the faster than light research . The book is divided into three parts to discuss relevant research work in different areas, including theories and experiments on superluminal phenomena, anomalous dispersion and negative group velocity (especially the experiment of superluminal light pulse propagation by L. J. Wang et. al.), the achievements and paradoxes of wave-particle-duality theory, the EPR thinking and the research advance on neutrino´s mass, etc. This is a good book with novel and abundant contents, written in a concrete and vivid style and so it will be quite attractive to broad readers. In this paper a view-point that the academic free discussion is a prerequisite for the development of science is emphasized