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SF Is Truly Remarkable

Author

Shim Wanseon

Publisher

A-Flat

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Science Fiction
  • #Genre Novel
  • #Popular Culture
  • #Review
  • #Column
  • #2023 Visiting Korean Book Fair-Japan

Copyright Contact

Jongho, Jeong

  • Publication Date

    2020-08-31
  • No. of pages

    284
  • ISBN

    9791189836269
  • Dimensions

    128 * 188
Overview

The book focuses on the works of science fiction by both foreign authors like Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin and Korean writers, Kim Bo-Young and Bae Myung-Hoon

Book Intro

(English) SF Is Truly Remarkable

 

SF Is Truly Remarkable is written by Sim Wan-Seon, a columnist who has published her articles on works of science fiction and diverse other genres in literature and authors in various media, such as Miraegyeong, Mirrorzine (Fantasy Literature Web Magazine), Fantastic, Pressian Books, Eyes, Epi, and The Korea Times. In SF Is Truly Remarkable, which shows the author’s special love of science, the reader will relish the specific enjoyment of reading about this genre as well as getting a closer look at the cracks of reality through a kaleidoscope of science fiction.

 

The author, who is a columnist and an aficionado of science fiction, analyzes the biased ideas about women by starting with the past and the present of the Star Wars film series and through a female protagonist who makes a social advancement in Wild Seed by Octavia Butler, which shows the status of women in SF. At the same time, she discovers those who foresee the collapse in the future and who resist against it in the works of Juli Zeh, J. G. Ballard, Robert Sheckley, Charles Yu, and Czech science fiction. She also writes about the eminent writers in the Western world, like Ursula Le Guin and Harlan Ellison as well as Korean writers, such as Kim Bo-Young, Hong Ji-Woon, and Bae Myung-Hoon, calling for continual interest and lasting affinity for them.

 

(Japanese) SFは本当にすごいけど

SFをはじめとする多様なジャンル小説および作家に関して『幻想文学ウェブジン鏡』、『ファンタスティック』、『韓国日報』などに文を掲載したSF評論家シム·ワンソンの初めての単独著作。著者は『スターウォーズ』シリーズの過去と現在を行き来しながら女性に対する固定観念にメスを入れ、黒人女性SF作家であるオクタビア·バトラーの『野生種』を通じてSF神の女性に注目する。一方、チェコSF小説とユリツェ、J.G.バラードなどの作品で没落する未来を仮定し、これに反発するSFジャンルならではの特性を発見し、アシュラーK、 ル·ギュン、ハーラン·エリソンのような海外巨匠はもちろん、キム·ボヨン、ホン·ジウン、ペ·ミョンフンなど国内作家に対する関心と愛情で韓国SFを語る。

About the Author

Shim Wanseon



(English)

Sim Wan-Seon is an SF columnist and a former committee member of SF & Fantasy Library. She wrote columns on SF and Genre novel and was one of the writers for Miraegyeong Mirror, Fantasy Literature Webzine, Webzine Fantastic, and The Korea Times. She is deeply interested in the issues of human dignity and social equality in relation to literature. She wrote the commentary for The Anthology of SF Short Stories by Women Writers and The Masterworks of Harlan Ellison. She is the author of Science Fiction is Truly Remarkable.

 

(Japanese) 

SF評論家、元SF&ファンタジー図書館運営委員。SFをはじめとするジャンル小説や作家について『未来鏡』、『幻想文学ウェブジン鏡』、『ウェブジンファンタスティック』、『韓国日報』などに執筆。人間の尊厳および社会的平等と文学のつながりに関心がある。『女性作家SF短編集』、『ハラン・エリソン傑作選』などに解説を書き、著書に『SFは本当にすごいけど』、『私たちはSFが好き』などがある。

Recommendation

Kim Cho-Yeop (Fiction Writer) 2020 : I recommend Sim Wan-Seon’s book of reviews for readers who would like a comprehensive overview of the present and the past of science fiction and how this appealing genre is making a step-by-step expansion of its readership around the world.


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