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Kim Bo-young is one of the most prolific science fiction writers of East Asia. At home in South Korea, where she is currently based, she won the best novella award in the first round of the Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Award with The Experience Of Touch, her first published book. She has also won the annual South Korea SF novel award twice. Kim has a forthcoming English translated short story and novellas in the United States. I'm Waiting For You And Other Stories is her first English translation work published in the UK.
The Straits Times
Journeying through space to make it to a wedding on time
South Korean science-fiction author Kim Bo-young s novella I m Waiting For You takes wedding uncertainty to intergalactic extremes.PHOTOS: HARPER VOYAGER, HYEYOUNG
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Kim Bo-Young, one of South Korea’s most treasured writers, explores the driving forces of humanity love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories. We’re excited to share an excerpt from the English translation of
Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities
In “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way,” an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure through relativity they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair.