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An “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and“fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.
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On the fictional island of Patusan—and much to the ire of the Patusan natives—the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth’s orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from our planet. Up in space, holding the elevator’s “spider cable” taut, is a mass of space junk known as the counterweight. And stashed within that junk is a trove of crucial data: a memory fragment left by LK’s former CEO, the control of which will determine the company’s—and humanity’s—future.
Racing up the elevator to retrieve the data is a host of rival forces: Mac, the novel’s narrator and LK’s chief of External Affairs, increasingly disillusioned with his employer; the everyman Choi Gangwu, unwittingly at the center of Mac’s investigations; the former CEO’s brilliant niece and power-hungry son; and Rex Tamaki, a violent officer in LK’s Security Division. They’re all caught in a labyrinth of fake identities, neuro-implants called Worms, and old political grievances held by the Patusan Liberation Front, the army of island natives determined to protect Patusan’s sovereignty.
Originally conceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, Counterweight is part cyberpunk, part hard-boiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea’s neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.
An “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and“fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.
***
On the fictional island of Patusan—and much to the ire of the Patusan natives—the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth’s orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from our planet. Up in space, holding the elevator’s “spider cable” taut, is a mass of space junk known as the counterweight. And stashed within that junk is a trove of crucial data: a memory fragment left by LK’s former CEO, the control of which will determine the company’s—and humanity’s—future.
Racing up the elevator to retrieve the data is a host of rival forces: Mac, the novel’s narrator and LK’s chief of External Affairs, increasingly disillusioned with his employer; the everyman Choi Gangwu, unwittingly at the center of Mac’s investigations; the former CEO’s brilliant niece and power-hungry son; and Rex Tamaki, a violent officer in LK’s Security Division. They’re all caught in a labyrinth of fake identities, neuro-implants called Worms, and old political grievances held by the Patusan Liberation Front, the army of island natives determined to protect Patusan’s sovereignty.
Originally conceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, Counterweight is part cyberpunk, part hard-boiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea’s neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 176 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780593317211 |
| ISBN-10: | 0593317211 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Koreanisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Djuna |
| Übersetzung: | Hur, Anton |
| Hersteller: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 215 x 151 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Djuna |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.07.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,33 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Seiten: | 176 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780593317211 |
| ISBN-10: | 0593317211 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Koreanisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: | Djuna |
| Übersetzung: | Hur, Anton |
| Hersteller: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Maße: | 215 x 151 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Djuna |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 11.07.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,33 kg |
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