★A dazzling novella by South Korea's middle-generation novelist, Jung Se-rang, who has won the Chu Bong Awards for Novels and the Korea Daily Literature Prize, marking the 10th anniversary of her debut with her first science fiction collection!
★The book includes eight stories that depict the lives of people (especially women) in contemporary South Korean society and offer a cautionary tale about the decline of human civilization.
★Recommended by major South Korean media outlets such as The Hankook Ilbo, Kyunghyang Shinmun, The Korea Daily, The Dong-A Ilbo, The Chosun Ilbo, and The Seoul Shinmun.
★Featured as "Today's Choice" and "Editor's Choice" at Kyobo Bookstore, the largest bookstore in South Korea.
★Strongly recommended as "Book of the Day" by YES24, a representative online bookstore in South Korea.
★Jung Se-rang's work, "Xiaojin," has been published in Simplified Chinese and has a Douban rating of 8.0! It was also selected as one of the must-read "Korean Women's Literature" works on Xiaohongshu.

Even the sharpest criticism is finely crafted.
A paradise for the delicate and sensitive,
Welcome to the world of Jung Se-rang.

Jung Se-rang is one of the most outstanding writers in the South Korean literary world, and this is her first collection of science fiction stories on the occasion of her 10th debut anniversary. The author depicts the lives of people in contemporary South Korean society, especially women, through eight stories, and sounds a warning about the collapse of human civilization. The book includes almost all of Jung Se-rang's short stories from her debut in 2010 to 2019. Among them, "Reset" is a short story about giant earthworms ravaging human civilization.