Kim Cho-yeop, who won the Best Writer Award at the Galaxy Awards, China’s science fiction literary award, with his novel collection If We Can’t Go at the Speed of Light, proved that he is loved by readers all over the world, and his first novel, The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, showed the … [Read More]
Booklist: Literature Fiction and Poetry
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light [forthcoming]
What makes us struggle to live in a world full of hatred, discrimination and contradictions? Kim Cho-yeop, a science student who makes biosensors, is now a writer who writes novels. Depicting an imaginary world that seems to exist somewhere but nowhere with a unique atmosphere, her first collection of novels, If We Can’t Go at … [Read More]
The Bird that Drinks Tears [forthcoming]
The Bird that Drinks Tears is a profoundly philosophical fantasy full of both tragically diabolical symmetries and laugh-out-loud hilarious moments. Four races with vastly different values, customs, and even lifespans come together to save their world, in which beings build their lives around honoring one goal, one promise, or one value above all else. Through … [Read More]
The Midnight Timetable [forthcoming]
A novel-in-stories narrated by a night shift worker at a mysterious research center, where unsettling encounters ensue with the cursed objects studied there — the manifestations of their owners’ dread, guilt, and past mistakes that become living nightmares. Mazel tov, again, @AntonHur! More Bora Chung! (Also @thesafae ) pic.twitter.com/Ja629LT3Ih — Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social (@lawrenceschimel) March … [Read More]
Alien Gods [forthcoming]
Honford Star announces some of their 2025 titles, which include three books from Lovecraft Reanimated — a series of Lovecraftian horror by leading Korean writers (including Honford Star’s first graphic novel, The Call of the Friend). The titles are Alien Gods (Lovecraft Reanimated) by Lee Soo-Hyun (trans. Anton Hur) The Call of the Friend (Lovecraft … [Read More]
The Call of the Friend [forthcoming]
Honford Star announces some of their 2025 titles, which include three books from Lovecraft Reanimated — a series of Lovecraftian horror by leading Korean writers (including Honford Star’s first graphic novel, The Call of the Friend). The titles are Alien Gods (Lovecraft Reanimated) by Lee Soo-Hyun (trans. Anton Hur) The Call of the Friend (Lovecraft … [Read More]
Come Down to a Lower Place [forthcoming]
Honford Star announces some of their 2025 titles, which include three books from Lovecraft Reanimated — a series of Lovecraftian horror by leading Korean writers (including Honford Star’s first graphic novel, The Call of the Friend). The titles are Alien Gods (Lovecraft Reanimated) by Lee Soo-Hyun (trans. Anton Hur) The Call of the Friend (Lovecraft … [Read More]
Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea: A Translation of the Samguk yusa [forthcoming]
Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English translation of one of the most important premodern Korean historical texts. One of only two surviving works on the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668) and Greater Silla (668–936), the Samguk yusa is a rich collection of historical, supernatural, and mythical stories, including one of … [Read More]
The Midnight Shift [forthcoming]
A bestseller in Korea, a biting, fast-paced vampire murder mystery exploring queer love and the consequences of loneliness. When four isolated elderly people die back-to-back at the same hospital by jumping out of the sixth-floor window, Su-Yeon doesn’t understand why she’s the only one at her precinct that seems to care. But her colleagues at … [Read More]
Chinatown [forthcoming]
In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among mundane violences, collisions with adult sexuality and the American … [Read More]
Blowfish [forthcoming]
For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of blowfish. Blowfish is a postmodern novel in four parts, alternating between the respective stories of a female sculptor and a male architect. Death is … [Read More]
The Second Chance Convenience Store [forthcoming]
In this million-copy international bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in an unhoused man who does a good deed, a kind soul whose presence will transform the whole neighborhood—a heartwarming tale of community and redemption reminiscent of the bestselling novels of Matt Haig and Gabrielle Zevin. Dok-go lives in Seoul Station. … [Read More]
Roadkill [forthcoming]
An effervescent speculative short story collection by South Korean author Amil for the next generation who crave a fresh perspective. With strong roots in feminist science fiction and fantasy, Roadkill is for the next generation of readers of speculative fiction who love to be transported to different worlds but also crave a fresh perspective. Featuring … [Read More]
Red Sword [forthcoming]
Red Sword is the mesmerizing and haunting English-language debut novel by International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Bora Chung. Expertly translated by Anton Hur, this speculative fiction unfolds on a distant, war-ravaged planet where advanced technologies wreak havoc and devastation. Told in sparse, evocative prose, a slave-turned-reluctant hero must traverse the alien terrain to uncover the truth … [Read More]
Snowglobe 2 [forthcoming]
The groundbreaking Korean phenomenon that Entertainment Weekly called “The Hunger Games meets Squid Game” continues with even more dark secrets and shocking surprises. The temperature is rising and the truth at the center of Chobahm’s frozen world will be revealed in the final installment of this epic dystopian saga. Chobahm’s perfect life in Snowglobe came … [Read More]
A Thousand Blues
It’s only when we slow down that we can truly experience joy … 2035: In the shadow of a race course, a young woman finds a robot named Coli on a scrap heap, contemplating the sky. Intrigued, she takes Coli into her care and learns how the robot is designed to be a humanoid jockey … [Read More]