After the domestic success of Kim Ji-young (2016; English translation by Jamie Chang published in 2020), and of its encouraging sales overseas, it was natural that Cho Nam-joo’s next novel would attract interest. Accordingly, Saha had a slightly shorter journey from Korean into English: after an original publication date in 2019 its English translation came … [Read More]
Tag: Speculative Fiction
Selected publications
- Amil: Roadkill tr Archana Madhavan, Harvill 2025
- Bora Chung: Red Sword tr Anton Hur, Honford Star 2025
- Soyoung Park: Snowglobe 2 tr Joungmin Lee Comfort, Penguin 2025
- Bae Myung-hoon: The Proposal tr Stella Kim, Honford Star 2024
- Djuna: Everything Good Dies Here: Tales from the Linker Universe and Beyond tr Adrian Thieret, Kaya 2024
- Bora Chung: Your Utopia tr Anton Hur, Hachette USA, Honford Star 2024
- Djuna: Counterweight tr Anton Hur, Pantheon, Penguin 2023
- Cho Nam-joo: Saha tr Jamie Chang, Scribner 2022
- Bae Myung-hoon: Launch Something! tr Stella Kim, Honford Star 2022
- Bora Chung: Cursed Bunny tr Anton Hur, Honford Star 2021
- Choi Jin-young: To the Warm Horizon tr Soje, Honford Star 2021
- Kim Bo-young: On the Origin of Species and Other Stories tr Joungmin Lee Comfort, Sora Kim-Russell, Kaya 2021
- Kim Bo-young: I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories tr Sophie Bowman, Sung Ryu, Harper Voyager 2021
- Bae Myung-hoon: Tower tr Sung Ryu, Honford Star 2021
- Anthology: Readymade Bodhisattva ed Sunyoung Park and Sang Joon Park, Kaya 2019
Review: Kim Bo-young – On the Origin of Species and other stories
After the mild disappointment that was the audiobook of Kim Bo-young’s I’m Waiting for You (let down by the somewhat unwieldy story The Prophet of Corruption) it was with a slight sense of wariness that I embarked upon the Kaya collection of her short stories On the Origin of Species. I was also cautious because … [Read More]
Review: Kim Bo-young – I’m Waiting for You, and other stories
Genuine question: what was the first work of translated Korean fiction to be released as an audiobook? I don’t know the answer to that one. Browsing the Audible catalogue is not easy, but I suspect Penguin wins the prize. Two popular titles published by Penguin – Kim Ji-young, born 1982 and The Hen who dreamed … [Read More]
Bae Myung-hoon’s Tower could be the most fun thing you read this year
Bae Myung-hoon’s Tower is the first of several science fiction books to reach us this year, and if the rest are as good as this we’re in for an enjoyable time. It’s his first full-length work to be translated into English, and also translator Sung Ryu’s first book. She has two further titles coming out … [Read More]
Tower: Bae Myung-hoon in conversation with Stella Kim
The KCC’s literature events for 2021 kick off in February with a feature on Honford Star’s publication of Bae Myung-hoon’s Tower. Text below is from the KCC website. Tower Tuesday 23 February 2021, 12noon-1:30pm Venue: Honford Star Youtube Channel Entrance Free – Booking Essential. Apply to [email protected] with your name and contact details by 5 … [Read More]
The rise of Korean sci-fi
There’s a nice feature in yesterday’s Korea Times on the rise of Korean science fiction, with an interview with the leading lights behind the Science Fiction Writers Union of the Republic of Korea. I’ve enjoyed dipping into the collection of K-sci-fi in translation Readymade Bodhisattva that came out last year from Kaya. It whetted my … [Read More]