- Overview
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A collection of eight novellas by the newcomer Cheon Seonran.
- Book Intro
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This is the first collection of novels by Cheon Seonran, who received the grand prize for full-length novels at the 4th Korean Science Literature Awards.
Included in the collection is To the Desert, a story of a woman who becomes an astronaut that was written at the suggestion of Cheon's father to write about the desert, as well as Lessi, in which an expedition to Saturn's ice moon Enceladus to overcome the extinction of sea creatures on Earth is met with an alien encounter. Also included in a multi-verse love story of an alien born without a belly button.
- About the Author
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Seon Ran Cheon
(English) Cheon Seonran writes about environmental degradation, animal extinction, and viruses as key motifs in her stories. Despite her constant efforts to stretch her fictional imagination, her brainstorming always brings her to the questions of how Earth will come to an end and what will happen in outer space. One day, she realized she wanted to put these ideas down in print. Cheon spends most of her time imagining and writing. She made her debut in 2019 with the novel Broken Bridges, which won the 4th Science Fiction Award. She recently published the collection A Material Love. She won the grand prize for 2019 Korean Science and Literature Award.
(Japanese) 2020年、最も注目されるＳＦ作家のひとり。人間でないものに関して語るのが好きで、面白い話とは何なのかについて探求し続けている。動植物が主流となり、人間が非主流になる世界を夢見ている。
‐作品に、長編小説『千個の青』（2020）、『崩れた橋』（2019）、短編集『ある物質の愛』（2020）など。
‐ＳＦアワード2020長編小説部門優秀賞受賞、第４回韓国科学文学賞長編小説部門大賞（2019）受賞、2020メガボックスプラスエム×安全家屋ストーリー公募：スーパーマイナリティヒーロー（2020）受賞。
(French) L’écrivaine traite la destruction de la nature, l’extinction des animaux et le virus comme le thème de son livre. Elle pensait toujours la fin de la Terre et rêvait de ce qui se passerait quelque part dans l’univers. Un jour, elle se décide à en faire un roman.
