[A Sip of Books] SF by Young Writers 'Love in a Transcendent World'

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of a book in themselves, while others instantly reach the reader's heart, creating a point of contact with the book. We introduce such meaningful sentences excerpted from books. - Editor's note

Five young writers who have built their own styles and worlds with unique imagination and lively prose. They reveal the worldview and sensibility of the younger generation, while simultaneously unfolding a new kind of SF that transcends the genre order and boundaries of traditional literature. ‘Woo Dayoung,’ who published the short story collection Alice Alice Hago Bureumyeon and the novella In the North Sea, and was recognized for her mysterious and dreamy literary world, was nominated for the Hyundai Literary Award and the Munji Literary Award in 2019 and 2020 respectively; ‘Jo Yeeun,’ who published the short story collection Cocktail, Love, Zombie and the novella Snowball Drive, presenting various genre worlds derived from small apocalypses infiltrating everyday life, gaining great popularity among the public; ‘Moon Boyoung,’ who published the poetry collection Book Pillar and the literary essay Diary Era, recognized for her avant-garde and bold imagination as well as her own quiet and healthy sensibility, won the Kim Suyeong Literary Award in 2017 and was nominated for the Hyundai Literary Award in 2022; ‘Shim Neoul,’ who published the short story collection I Will Never Grow Old So Ugly Like That and the novel The Ark We Cannot Climb, gaining full support from the MZ generation with her unique hyperrealism SF that sharply critiques social absurdities; and ‘Park Seoryeon,’ who published the novels Chegongnyeo Kang Juryong and The Shirley Club, recognized for a wide spectrum of female narratives and the imagination of love and solidarity, winning the Hankyoreh Literary Award in 2018 and the Young Writers Award in 2021 ? these are the protagonists.

“The future will, for the first time, experience being pulled away from a predetermined place into the unknown.” - Woo Dayoung, "Long Premonition"

A sudden premonition came over me. I felt that I would be pondering Naru’s expression for a very long time. The floor vibrated once more, and Naru reached out her hand. Together, they held hands while looking out the window at the approaching apocalypse. - Jo Yeeun, "At the Returning Lake"

If you hold someone else’s memory in your heart for too long, that memory becomes no one’s memory. - Moon Boyoung, "The Memory Chip That Is Not Sad"

Choi Dohyuk’s life was defined as something he had never wished for nor loved even once. - Shim Neoul, "Understanding Communication"

“What scares me most is not knowing whether Earth is a good place or a bad place for that being.” - Park Seoryeon, "If I Were Born on Earth Next Time"

Love Beyond Worlds | Written by Woo Dayoung et al. | Hubble | 288 pages | 13,000 KRW

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