- Overview
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This novel has an epic narrative with detailed character descriptions and an elaborate scientific setting. The characters from diverse racial backgrounds have been alienated and discriminated against in society and start a global revolution with their various supernatural powers.
- Book Intro
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(English) The Power That Devastates Everything
Starting in Korea, there are people found with extraordinary abilities all throughout the world. These so-called Deviants have supernatural powers such as psychomancy, telekinesis, teleportation, and telegnosis. Their extraordinary abilities are revealed in adolescence, remarkably more commonly found among those in areas with high radioactivity levels, developed due to stress. After a period when the world sees these Deviants as interesting and special, the world begins to fear them for their superhuman powers and starts to suppress them because of their differences. The protagonist finds herself in a crashing spacecraft when she awakens. Hwa-Gyeong, who has psychomancy ability, makes an emergency landing on the moon without knowing what’s exactly happening. Meanwhile, indiscriminative attacks have started from somewhere. Thanks to her psychomancy ability, six people survive the attacks. These six survivors try to figure out what is happening and learn that they’re all Deviants and are particularly connected to Yekaterinburg, a city in Russia. The truth is revealed across present and past: Hwa-Gyeong, her friends—Yu-Yeong, Leiry, and Taebin—and a broadcasting PD took an express train from Busan to Paris to participate in a Deviant discrimination banning parade. They spread a message for liberation through a video they casually uploaded on their YouTube channel called “Revolutionaries.” With followers increasing by the day, demonstrations inspired by Deviants occur all around the world. Finally, a large-scale demonstration is held in Yekaterinburg. As the demonstration grows intense, the government starts a violent suppression, which leads them to take over Yekaterinburg Station. As a result, the world government sends troops to the site. The demonstrators are divided over the use of violence, and Mike Peterson, who has a space movement ability, causes the defense line of the demonstrators to collapse.
Although they bring lost memories back, they’re still in life-threatening danger. To make matters worse, they start aiming their guns at each other. Yu-Yeong asks Hwa-Gyeong to return to Earth and to take the role of leader of the revolutionary army, but Hwa-Gyeong refuses and dies by shooting herself. At that moment, Hwa-Gyeong returns to her own body from Yu-Yeong’s body. It turns out that their bodies were swapped due to Yu-Yeong’s bodysnatching ability. Dying Yu-Yeong last words to Hwa-Gyeong: Start the revolution again.
- 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.