I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories

"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, & Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary & cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful & graceful." —Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite

In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea's most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity—love, hope, creation, destruction, & the very meaning of existence—in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories.

2 worlds, 4 stories, infinite possibilities

In "I'm Waiting for You" & "On My Way," an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure—through relativity—they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space & time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass & the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless & hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges & the deepest despair.

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KIM BO-YOUNG is 1 of S. Korea’s most active & influential science fiction authors. Her 1st published work, The Experience of Touch, received the best novella award in the first round of the Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Awards, & she has won the annual South Korean SF novel award twice.

Sung Ryu is a Korean translator based in Singapore. Her translations include Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung, Tower by Bae Myung-hoon, & the Korean edition of Grandma Moses: My Life’s History by Anna Mary Robertson Moses.