★Owing to this book, the author Kim Cho-Yeop has won the Artist of The Day Award, which is credited as the most authoritative prize in the Korean literary world.
★The copyright of this book in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese and Thai have all been sold!
★In 2020, Kim Cho-Yeop became the winner of “The 11th Young Writers Award” with her new work “Cognitive Space.”
★Kim Cho-Yeop is listed in the “100 leading figures which will bring hope to the next generation”, juxtaposing with BTS, BLACKPINK and IU.
★Praised as “Writer of the Year” in 2021 by Korean website YES24 and Aladdin Bookstore.
★Korean writers, giant publishers and authoritative media have voted it as the annual book of 2019.
★Her works are being adapted with the cooperation of some large publishers, musicians and production companies.
◆The “Spectrum” included in this book has been adapted for TV by director Kim Bora, who has won awards with her House of Hummingbird. The film copyrights of her other works also have been sold and waited for shooting.
◆“If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light” included in this book has inspired the kpop group HYUKOH and the famous musician Jang Ki Ha (Silverhair Express) to cooperate with a remix single, which retells some of the storylines through uttered words.
★Keeping eyes on the limitless universe, are we still willing to remember the distance of embracing? This is an annual phenomenal masterpiece of Korea, which is also credited to the elegant style of the SF world as a “warm SF” about disparity, understanding, empathy and love.

[Highlights]
★7 short SF stories of Kim Cho-Yeop are included in this book, and every story will depict different lives and philosophies. Moreover, “Book Missing Inside Library” and “If We Can’t Move at the Speed of Light” included in this book have won the first prize and the grand prize at the 2nd Korean Science Fiction Awards (short story/mid-length novel category) respectively.
★Korean Aladdin Bookstore: Rank at No. 1 on the best-selling list of novels and No. 7 on the best-selling list of comprehensive books! Voted as the “Book of the Year” in this bookstore!
★It was appraised as the “Book of the Year” in 2019 by four authoritative media, “The Chosun Ilbo”, “The Munhwa ll-bo”, “The Hankyoreh”, and “The Shinxiang News.”
★The Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 in the field of science fiction, added SF elements to the popular topics such as the critique of “lookism” and the right of women, another rising star of the female writers in the Korean literary world!
★The recommended books for literature shared by Arts Council Korea
★The Korean Publishers Association: the “Annual Book of Youth Education”
★“Book of the Year” appraised by the reading KOLs
★“Novel of the Year” recommended by 50 novelists in Kyobo Book Centre
★“Book of the Year” selected by the writers and publishers of YES24
★The author was praised by the Aladdin Bookstore as “The Leader of Korean Literature in 2020”.

Even in the far future, people will still feel lonely and isolated, longing to touch something else. Wherever I stay and whenever I live, I would never give up mutual understanding. ——Kim Cho-Yeop

Can you imagine what the world will be like in the future?

As the most notable author of the new generation, Kim Cho-Yeop uses seven pieces of short stories to create a Utopia that can move at the speed of light. In that world, humans can travel around the universe. Living in the perfect environment built on technology, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence will not stay a fantasy anymore; furthermore, when people die, their souls can even be uploaded to the cloud.

Living in such a highly developed universe, we will still feel isolated…

▍ Why Did Pilgrims Always Leave Without Return

If everyone can be the perfect “New Humans”, shall we get happiness since that?

▍ Spectrum
Communicating with the intelligence from outer space, can emotions transcend language?

▍ Symbiosis Theory
The collective memory of this world relies on the very essence of the eternal yearning for extraterrestrial hometown.

▍ If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light
How to convey the memory that transcends time to others?

▍ Universal Nature of an Emotion
Would you like to purchase the melancholy that has condensed into the substance?

▍ Book Missing Inside Library
Can the soul upload after death be possibly understood or excused by people alive?

▍ As For My Cosmic Hero
Are all the sacrifices counted worthwhile for having a look at the scenery on the other side of the universe?

In this book, there is a disabled young girl, a biologist kidnapped by aliens, old people waiting for years in the abandoned space station, a daughter who cannot find her mother’s mind back, and an astronaut who has undergone arduous training. Through their life stories, Kim Cho-Yeop has written down the most tender science fiction of this generation, which resembles a warm hug that leads us to walk across time and space, the perfection and flaws, to find the possibility that humans can start from mutual communication and understanding to become inclusive and even love each other.

Kim Cho-Yeop

Born in 1993. She earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry, and a master’s in biochemistry from Pohang University of Science and Technology. She began her career as an author after leaving the university. Cho-Yeop won the first prize and the grand prize at the 2nd Korean Science Fiction Awards (short story/mid-length novel category) in 2017, respectively, for her two short stories, “Book Missing Inside Library” and “If We Can’t Move at the Speed of Light”. If We Can’t Move at the Speed of Light is her first collection of short stories. Since this book was published in June 2019, it soon became a tremendous hit as a popular topic; moreover, with this book, she also received the 43rd Today’s Writer Prize 9 (historical winners include Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’s author Cho Nam-Joo and Liu Yuan’s author White Tenderness), winning some other big prizes and annual book recommendations.

Why Did Pilgrims Always Leave Without Return
Spectrum
Symbiosis Theory
If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light
Universal Nature of an Emotion
Book Missing Inside Library
As For My Cosmic Hero

Let all the wonderful things go back to their places.