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Book

On the origin of species and other stories

Call Number

  • SCIENCE FICTION KIM (POW)

Languages

Translated from the Korean.

Publication Information

Los Angeles : Kaya Press, [2021]

Physical Description

300 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Summary

"The debut English-language collection of one of South Korea's most distinctive and accomplished sci-fi authors. Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and inspiration. On the Origin of Species makes available for the first time in English some of Kim's most acclaimed stories, as well as an essay on science fiction. Her strikingly original, thought-provoking work teems with human and non-human beings, all of whom are striving to survive through evolution, whether biologically, technologically or socially. Kim's literature of ideas offers some of the most rigorous and surprisingly poignant reflections on posthuman existence being written today."--Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • A brief reflection on breasts
  • Scripter
  • Between zero and one
  • An evolutionary myth
  • Last of the wolves
  • On the origin of species
  • Stars shine in Earth's sky
  • On the origin of species - and what might have happened thereafter.