- Overview
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The book is a collection of short stories and novellas by Kyunghee Lee, the Grand Prize winner of South Korea's prestigious 2020 SF Awards. Readers can experience a broad spectrum of aspects of Korean SF within the pages of this single collection.
- Book Intro
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(English) From Your Sweet Universe
<The night of living ancestors>
Ancestors who became boomers(꼰대) went back alive!
It’s set on the apocalypse world where dead ancestors resurrected because some uncertain accident. Yo hanna who divorced her husband because of her mother in law plays an important role as ‘a director of banning traditional memorial service for dead ancestors’. They are the ones who put up a mask and go any places where a daughter in law suffers from holding the service, and break in upon the service. One day when they were actively working while crying out “The last war of humanity is to get rid of the memorial service for ancestors!” Yo hanna’s mother in law came back from her grave.
Everywhere, ancestors returned as zombies. All the zombies strode down the city. “Why there is soup inside the soup”, An mother in law shouted angrily while dripping the soup from the hole on the chin. A grandfather gave a scolding about a virgin shows one’s bare legs out in the middle of the day. “Stay after the broadcasting”, a senior announcer zombie said. The only one way to emasculate zombies that couldn’t be killed with knife is to make them hear ‘the worse boomer like’ scoldings. Then zombies can’t bear it and halts its life activity.
A year passed while those resurrected boomers were fighting one another, and the survivors found out the cause of the zombie was due to the quantum entanglement. Also there won’t be anymore new zombies if they emit electric wave from 12 thousand communication satellites. On the other hand, Yo hanna wondered whether it’s easier to recall the really ancient boomer who could emasculate already resurrected zombies. So the headquarter of banning traditional memorial service for dead ancestors initiated a plan to recall an ancestor from the past passing through Chosen and Goryeo period and further back to where the language doesn’t exist anymore… Would Yo hanna be able to survive from her mother in law who resurrected?
- About the Author
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Lee Kyunghee
(English) Lee Kyung-Hee mainly writes stories in the scope of science and fantasy. Lee earned a master’s degree in business management and has a career in the field of transportation. He made his literary debut in 2019 when he received the Gold Branch Time Leap Story Contest award for “A Tale of White Yoho Without a Tail,” a time travel story based on oriental fantasies. He deals with death, loneliness, hierarchy, and power in his works. He also received the Grand Prize for The Ship of Theseus in the category of full-length novel at the Sci-Fi Awards in 2020. His short story “Night of the Living Ancestors” was selected as Sci-Fi of the Year in 2019 at BritG, a novel platform. His works include Dolls in Sand City, From Your Gentle Universe, That Day, in That Place, The Ship of Theseus, and Sci-Fi, How I Just Know Such a Good Thing.