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Future Past Tense - Preorder

Future Past Tense - Preorder

Bae Myung-hoon (translated by Stella Kim and Sung Ryu)

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  • Designed by Jisu Choi
  • 232 pages
  • Published
  • 9781915829405 (pb) / 9781915829412 (e)

Author | Translator

Bae Myung-hoon is one of the most popular science fiction writers in South Korea. Much of his work focuses on the stories of worlds in motion and human beings living in them, and he has received both science fiction and traditional literary awards. His novels Tower, The Proposal, and Launch Something! were published by Honford Star.

Stella Kim is a Korean-American translator, currently based in Korea. Her translations have appeared in ASIA, Asia Literary Review, Asymptote Journal, Korean Literature Now, and others. She translated Bae Myung-hoon's Launch Something! and The Proposal.

Sung Ryu is a literary translator working from and into Korean. She is the translator of Tower by Bae Myung-hoon, Shoko’s Smile by Choi Eunyoung, Teddy Bears Never Die by Cho Yeeun, and the co-translator of I’m Waiting for You: And Other Stories by Kim Bo-Young (with Sophie Bowman). She has called many places home, including South Korea, the United States, Canada, and now Singapore.

Hailed by critics and award-winning authors—including Kim Cho-yeop (author of If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light)—as a representative masterpiece of the Korean Science-Fiction Golden Age, Future Past Tense is the eagerly awaited new collection from the masterful storyteller, Bae Myung-hoon. Bae returns with eight utterly original worlds where the boundaries of time, space, and language dissolve, confirming his place as a pioneer of modern Korean literature.

Experience the heart-wrenching pursuit of a vanished first love and follow journeys that span from the bottom of the Earth’s ocean to spacecraft bound for Mars. Bae’s unique voice—a trademark blend of intellectual discourse, empathetic humor, and keen social insight—delivers a reading experience that is both exhilarating and deeply moving. This essential collection defines the standard for contemporary Korean speculative fiction.

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