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https://www.wired.com/story/pseudonymous-author-couterweight-djuna-interview-wired-30/>
"Scheduling an interview with the author known only as Djuna is a complicated
affair. For starters, South Korea’s most prominent sci-fi writer doesn’t do
in-person press. Or phone calls. Or Zoom meetings. They’ve been working under a
pen name for more than two decades, publishing beloved short-story collections
and novels and accumulating ardent admirers while living their day-to-day life
in peaceful obscurity. But after reading their new novel
Counterweight—a
jaunty cyberpunk thriller about memory implantation, space colonization, and
identity—I had so many questions, I knew I had to try to connect with them.
Djuna is a literary giant in Korea, but thus far, most of their work has been
inaccessible to English-language readers. Today, that changes, when the brisk,
propulsive translation of
Counterweight hits stores, ready to earn Djuna an
even wider audience. The story takes place on Patusan, a fictional tropical
nation that doubles as the home of the world’s first space elevator,
constructed by a Korean mega-corporation called LK. Mac, the book’s narrator,
is a disillusioned LK executive investigating a lower-level employee’s
increasingly bizarre behavior—and how it ties back to the recent death of the
company’s CEO.
In a search for answers to all my questions about
Counterweight, I asked
Djuna’s English translator, Anton Hur, to act as a go-between, and the author
agreed to an email exchange."
Via
Future Crunch:
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
