- Overview
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"After waking up from a long sleep of 161 years in a time capsule, I was the only man left on Earth, which was populated entirely by women!" The winner of the Weekly Korea Mystery Novel Contest in 1965 is finally published as a complete edition after 50 years.
- Book Intro
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Leaving behind the devastations of war, mankind began to prosper again and focused on making time capsules to commemorate their work. The UN decided to send a living human to the future as the ultimate form of time travel. A new method to resist the aging of the body by sleeping for a long time at a low temperature had been developed, and the scientific community searched around the world for the person perfectly prepared in body and mind to endure these special conditions. Following a test for underlying diseases and due to his high athletic and intellectual capabilities, a Korean male named Eun Seongu is selected after going through severe tests.
He decides to go to the future despite his mother's dissuasion and falls into a long sleep. When he finally awakes to Earth in 22nd century, he finds that only women are living in the future!
- About the Author
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Moon Yoonseong
The author's real name is Kim Jongan (金鐘安, M). He was born in 1916 in Cheorwon in Gangwon Province. He was dismissed from Kyungsung Second Gobo, the predecessor of Gyeongbok High School, for standing up against a Japanese teacher during the Japanese Colonial period. Kim later worked in construction sites and mines to provide for his single mother while also writing novels and poems. He studied design and plumbing on his own and later started a cooperative company called "Daesung Enterprise."
He published his short story Cheek in 1946 in Shincheonji, but could not continue his literary work. When he turned 51, in 1965, he won the the 1st Mystery Novel Contest hosted by Weekly Korea with Perfect Society, which was published as a book with the same name in 1967. This work is judged to be Korea's first sci-fi novel and it was a big shock to the established literary groups at the time.
The author was an early active member of the Korean Mystery Writers Association and insisted on the "scientification of mystery novels." He has published many short stories, such as What Happened in Denver, The Second Death of Hauroad, Bungwoondong Reminiscence, and Rural Rhapsody based on solid scientific foundations. His full-length novels include Japanse judge and Breaking Chains and he also published the play The Inheritor and the feature epic poem Gourd Flower. He passed away on August 24, 2000, in Suwon at the age of 85. - Recommendation
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"Extensive scale, meticulous storytelling... Well, the person who wrote this is either a great genius or a great thief." - Han Woonsa, Playwright "He tells fictional stories with such force and persuasion that he makes the reader want to make the excuse for him that 'this isn't necessarily fictional.'" - Cho Poongyeon, Journalist "A new style of novel never seen in Korea" - Kyunghyang Shinmun, April 24, 1967
