★Rights sold to Japan.
★A whimsical imagination and sparkling wit. Chung Serang’s first SF short story collection

This collection of stories moves freely between utopia and dystopia, revealing a world that seems to exist somewhere in a parallel universe, but one that only Chung and create. This newly introduced collection contains refined sentences to make the fast-paced narrative richer and a unified texture that is unique to “Chung Serang World.”

Chung immediately draws the reader in with her engrossing narrative, solid setting, and, most importantly, the endearing characters. Each of the eight short stories in this collection is set in a different, seemingly doomed future, but all of them feature characters who have the courage to take a step forward. This is where speculative fiction shines brightly, delivering both a chilling critique of human civilization and a sense of infinite possibility.

The titular story, “Take My Voice”, begins as “Seungkyun”, a man who uses his voice to awaken the inherent violence in human beings, becomes quarantined in a concentration camp. In the camp, Seungkyun meets “monsters” who, like him, have abilities that cannot be explained by science, and spends his days in comfort and peace with his freedom suspended. Until one day, “Yeon-seon”, enters the camp. Yeon-seon has a face that captivates everyone, but whose exact appearance is hard to describe. Will Seungkyun and the other prisoners be willing to give up their most valuable treasure for Yeon-seon? Is he willing to give up his voice, even if it means turning into a sea foam and disappearing?

Chung was born in Seoul in 1984. Her writing career started when she published “Dream, Dream, Dream” in Fantastic in 2010. She received a Changbi Novel Award for This Close in 2013 and a Hankook Ilbo Literary Award for Fifty People in 2017. Her books include the story collections Meet Me at the Rooftop and I’ll Give You My Voice, the novels I Want to See a Snaggletooth, Jaein, Jaeuk, Jaehum, AhnEun-young the School Nurse, and From Siseon, and the essay collection Nobody Loves Earth More Than an Earthling.

Awards: 2017 Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, 2017 Changbi Novel Award, 2013 Changbi Novel Award