Kim Choyeop’s If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light – South Korean Speculative Fiction (2026)

Description

“I’ve been yearning for the whole world to read Kim Choyeop and fall in love with her as I did”
Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny and The Midnight Timetable

Meet the alien species that put the humanity into human beings
Discover the fate of Slefonia III once warp travel became obsolete
Visit the Mind Library to commune with the dead
Kim Choyeop became an instant literary sensation in Korea with her debut short story collection. Each of these bitesize speculative masterpieces represents a journey into the unknown, guided by a writer blessed with a boundless imagination.
From alternative futures to distant alien planets, in the company of scientists, space explorers and ordinary citizens in extraordinary situations, Kim Choyeop revels in making the impossible seem not only possible but somehow inevitable.
Each story focuses on an specific issue of discrimination people and groups on the margins, adding a mind-bending twist to hold a mirror to modern society and its everyday iniquities.
Translated from the Korean by Anton Hur

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