- Overview
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The book is set in the year 2071 and confronts issues about humans and robots.
- Book Intro
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16-year-old Hong-li is an intern at the National Security Bureau who dreams of officially becoming an agent so that he can earn his citizenship and live a better life with his mom. While investigating “animal-making,” which has infiltrated the bureau’s central server, Hong-li accidentally meets the AI bot Hans. Hans claims that his owner Nana has been kidnapped and asks for Hong-li’s help. Hong-li discovers that animal-making and Hans’s owner Nana are closely linked. Hans and Hong-li try to find Nana, and during their search learn that the ambitious doctor and businessman, Mayor Baekeun, is holding a vagabond girl and a scientist, who makes robots, in order to conduct human cloning experiments. After a series of tumultuous events, Hong-li and Hans find Nana, but Nana introduces herself as Hanna and believes the mayor is her mother. In order to help Nana and find himself, Hong-li enters the VR world “Animal-Making,” which the mayor created in order to rule the world. Thanks to Hong-li and Nana’s actions, the mayor gets locked up in a VR prison. Hong-li, Hans, and Nana each return to their districts after the truth of animal-making is uncovered.
- About the Author
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Nam Sangsun
Nam Sangsun was born in Mungyeong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and graduated from Dongduk Women’s University with an undergraduate degree in Korean language and literature. She received a graduate degree in creative writing from Korea University. In 1992, Nam’s short story, A Miracle Sound beyond the Mountain, was selected and published by Munhwa Ilbo (Culture Daily), which started her writing career. In 1993, Nam received the Today’s Author Award for her novel Finding the White Snake. Nam focuses on young adult books with the hope that today’s youth will reclaim their identity.
Nam has written the novels What We Can Say about the Camellias, Hope Line, A Photograph without a Mailman, and the young adult books A Rabbit Jumps Out of a Radio, Passing to Be a Human Deadline, I Am My Father’s Relative, Dialect Ghost, Kiss Jail, and Husky Voice.