★Top 10 bestseller in General Category in Aladdin, a leading bookshop in South Korea
★Recommended on “Book of Today” by YES24, a representative bookstore in South Korea; Top 35 bestseller in Fiction Category in YES24
★Recommended on “Book of Today” by Kyoho Bunku, the largest bookstore in South Korea; Top 30 bestseller in Fiction Category in Kyoho Bunku
★Enthusiastically recommended by South Korea’s mainstream media like Korea Daily News, XXX, Dong-A Ilbo, The Hankyoreh, Kookmin Ilbo

★The galaxy is like a book that no one has read, fascinating and mysterious. Kim Cho-yeop’s book makes readers feel many emotions such as love, compassion, joy, adoration, and sorrow. Characters in this book live in the “imaginary present,” and they do not live in the same time and space. They feel nostalgic about the past and look forward to the future. Stories that unfold at different time and space seem unrelated at first glance, but they invariably demonstrate universal human emotions. Kim uses her imagination to make readers feel strange homesickness in an unknown place they have never been to.

★Kim Cho-yeop is the most popular novelist in South Korea. She is the winner of the 43rd Today’s Writer Award in South Korea, and she was selected as one of the “leading authors of South Korean literature in 2020.” Recent years have seen her becoming another rising female star in the literary world in South Korea! Her works have received a great deal of attention and popularity. Critics and readers call her fictions “the elegant school of South Korean science fiction.” Kim's books present a special world that only she can create. Thanks to her unique imagination, a transparent, beautiful, but not pure world is unfolding right in front of us.

For readers in South Korea, will their memory of this era be associated with Kim Cho-yeop? In 2018, Kim entered the literary world with her first collection of stories, If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light. Four years later, she has carved her name in the most prominent places in and outside the Korean literary world. The steady flow of her remarkable imagination-driven works suggests that she deserves so many accomplishments and compliments in the short term.

The Planetary Language Bookstore is a brand new collection of novels by Kim Cho-yeop, a novelist who has started a new chapter of science fiction literature in South Korea. The book contains 14 stories that transport readers to the cosmic world where they can resonate with issues like conflicts and coexistence among races, and environmental destruction.

Fahira is a “contact syndrome” patient who feels terrible pain when her body is touched due to the after-effects of surgery (Hug Cactuses). A professor is implanted with a translation module in her brain and lives as a surgically maladjusted person in a world of tens of thousands of galactic languages (The Planetary Language Bookstore). A weak teenager suddenly appears from a swamp where XXX connection network is used to construct collective intelligence (A Teenager from the Swamp). There is a bizarre restaurant and a service area located in front of a ruin (Other Inhabitants of Earth).

By immersing readers in a world where they live with other organisms on earth and even planetary systems, Kim Cho-yeop seeks not only to acknowledge and affirm diversity but to seek coexistence.

Kim Cho-yeop: a novelist, the winner of the 41st Today’s Writer Award in South Korea, and the 11th Young Writer’s Award (Nam-joo Cho won the 41st Today’s Writer Award for her book called Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982), a bestselling author, one of the most popular authors in Korean fiction, and one of “the authors who will lead Korean literature in 2020” chosen by readers and the media. Recent years have seen her becoming a rising female star in the literature circle of South Korea.

She graduated from Pohang University of Science and Technology with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in biochemistry. In fact, it is more interesting for her to travel in time or make new imaginations in the monitor than to study. In 2017, she won the first prize and the excellence prize in the Short and Medium Stories Catagory at the 2nd Korean Science Literature Awards with her book Lost in the Precinct and If We Cannot Move at the Speed of Light respectively.

Preface
Be Careful Not To Touch Each Other
-Hug Cactuses
-#Cyborg_Positive
-Cantaloupe Vendor and Violinist
-Daisies and Strange Machines
-Planet Language Bookstore
-Wish Gatherer
-Don’t Listen to Sad Love Songs
-The Uncatchable Landscape

The Way of Life
A Teenager from the Swamp
When Leaving Simon
Coco in Our Family
Other Inhabitants on Earth
Over the Edge