Author Bae Myounghoon began his literary career in 2005 when his short story Smart D won a sci-fi contest. He wrote collections of stories, Art and Acceleration of Gravity; Tower; and Hello, Artificial Being!; novels First Breath; Archaeo-Psychic; and ROK Space Force; and the essay I Am a Sci-Fi Writer. He is the winner of the Daesan Literary Award and Young Writer’s Award.