The World Just Left Behind
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Summary
The Ferris Wheel Equation: After an accident, my sister's time slows to thousands of times slower than mine. But when we ride the giant Ferris wheel of many eerie legends together, I witness a miracle of time.
The Shadow of Breath: In this world, people no longer communicate through language but through particles. Two girls who use different language systems meet; though they share no past, they become lifelong friends.
Laura: Laura has always felt she possesses a third arm. To ease the pain of this hallucination, she decides to have a real "third hand" implanted.
The Dance of Mary: On the day everyone lost their hearing, I finally understood why Mary dances. She is an unseen dancer, launching a rebellion against the world.
Cognitive Space: Even those excluded by the knowledge community can possess their own unique cognitive space. Those small, personal "useless" memories matter just as much as the "collective" narrative.
The Last Raione: A clone who should never have been born, and a promise made with a forgotten robot on an abandoned planet. My love for you is accompanying you to build a world where flaws are no longer treated as anomalies.
The Ancient Contract: On this silent and peaceful planet, people enter a mysterious state of "immersion" in their twenties and die in agony. And all of this stems from an ancient contract.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy science fiction short stories and prefer emotionally driven premises
- Young readers who resonate with themes of human relationships, loneliness, and difference
- Literary readers accustomed to slow reading and willing to reflect within the white space
- Readers who want to encounter contemporary Korean science fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking strong plot and fast-paced adventure
- Science fiction fans expecting hardcore technological premises and rigorously built worldviews
- Readers who need light entertainment and do not wish to engage with heavy emotions
Reading tips
- Read one or two stories at a time and leave time to savor them; no need to rush
- Keep a pen handy to mark sentences that make you pause, and revisit them after finishing
- Read in order and notice the echoes between the seven stories on communication and difference
- After each story, talk with a friend for ten minutes and exchange understandings of the emotions behind the premises
About the publisher
Guowen Runhua Culture Media (Beijing) Co., Ltd. is a book planning organization whose main publishing areas are foreign literature, science fiction and social novels, with 34 titles in its catalogue. Its representative list combines Korean and French literature, ranging from Choi Eun-young's Even with the Faintest Light and Kim Cho-yeop's The World Just Left Behind to Georges Perec's W: My Private Auschwitz; works such as Hwang Sok-yong's The Familiar World and Welcome to the Bookshop in Hyunam-dong reflect an attention to social reality and everyday experience. Its translators and authors include Xu Lihong, Xue Zhou, Fan Yanmei and Wang Jin, indicating a stable translator base for introducing contemporary foreign fiction. Because public information is limited, other publishing areas are not described here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 摩天轮方程式
- 最后的拉伊奥妮
- 玛丽之舞
- 劳拉
- 息之影
- 久远的契约
- 认知空间
- 作者的话
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About the author
Kim Cho-yeop is a science fiction author whose works are included in this Chinese-language book database, with three titles currently available to readers: The World We Left Behind, The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, and If We Cannot Travel at the Speed of Light. Public information about the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, educational background, and writing career is limited, and no existing profile is available in the database. Judging from the available works, Kim Cho-yeop's writing focuses on science fiction and is often categorized as foreign literature. The works tend to explore themes such as parting, ecological crisis, and space travel, attending to human emotions and existential conditions within imaginative settings. The works have attracted some attention among Chinese-language readers and are suitable for those interested in contemporary science fiction and foreign literature.
Wang Jin, about whom limited public information is available, shows wide-ranging interests in both creative and instructional writing, and her works present a notably varied profile. In literature, she has written the science fiction novel The World Just Left Behind and has contributed to books on folk literature and literary appreciation, such as the illustrated collector's edition of Greek myths that never end and a study of the story types and transmission of the Yijian Zhi. On historical and cultural subjects, she has published a work related to the Rites of Zhou. She has also taken part in compiling computer application textbooks covering Windows 7 and Office 2010, including operational instruction and extended practice. Seven of her works are held in the collection, spanning science fiction, history, folk literature, literary appreciation, and general computing. With biographical details unavailable, a full picture of her writing career cannot yet be drawn, but the existing titles show that she is at home in both literary and historical subjects and in practical technical writing; readers may consult individual titles to discover these different sides of her work.
