Prologue _007
Chapter 1 Mosvana _023
Chapter 2 Prim Village _111
Chapter 3: Greenhouse at the End of the Earth _245

Author's Note _387
References _390

“There’s a devil’s plant growing in my garden. Is this a sign of doom?”
Where the vines spread, there lies a strange story hidden.

The novel consists of three chapters.
The character waiting for the reader in 'Chapter 1 Mosvana' is Ayoung, a plant ecologist working as a researcher at the Dust Ecology Research Center in 2129.
He was drawn to this work by the slow but far-reaching growth of plants, and the incredible vitality and strange stories they hold.
Although he never forgets his principles as a scientist, he secretly enjoys ghost stories and his hobby is accessing 'Stranger Tales'.

One day, Ayoung hears news that the creeper Mosvana is growing suspiciously fast in the ruined city of Haewol, causing problems.
When he hears that an unknown blue light has been seen, he is reminded of a scene he saw in the garden of Lee Hee-soo, an old man who lived next door when he was young.
A garden in the middle of the night, overgrown with weeds as if abandoned, with blue lights floating magically above it.
Why on earth did Mosvana suddenly start multiplying abnormally, and what is the identity of the blue light?

He collects and analyzes Mosbananas, while also asking around for information about the plant through Stranger Tales.
Finally, he reaches the sisters Amara and Naomi, who were called the "Witches of Langano" by the people for using Mosvana as a medicinal herb during the Dust Age.
Ayoung definitely wants to hear something from them.

“How on earth does a place like this exist?
I thought they were all dead.
Outside the dome, everyone is dead.”
The only refuge in a ruined world, and a secret greenhouse.

In 'Chapter 2 Prim Village', the character the reader meets is Naomi, a child wandering in a world destroyed by Dust in 2058.
The dust that comes with the red fog instantly kills any living being.
People build their own cities under domes, and they do not hesitate to kill to maintain them.
Naomi, who has suffered as a test subject and hunted by hunters who crave her blood because of her resistance to dust, heads into the forest with her older sister Amara in search of a rumored refuge.

Finally, the sisters reach Prim Village, a place where people live, even without a dome, and exposed to the pouring rain and blowing wind.
This place was maintained simply by the faithful labor of the people, without any grand ideology or justification.
And another thing, the crops and dust decomposers given by Rachel, a botanist who lives in a greenhouse on a hill that only the leader, Jisoo, can enter, are feeding the people.
Naomi gradually becomes absorbed into an incredibly vibrant forest village.

But peace cannot last forever.
Invaders appear in Prim Village, and Jisoo distributes the plants she has prepared to the villagers and tells them to leave.
Go outside the forest, plant some plants, and create another Prim Village.
As she leaves the village, Naomi has a feeling that her heart will probably be stuck here for the rest of her life.

“Perhaps I wanted to write a story about that heart.”
How can we, so small, save each other?

In Chapter 3, Greenhouse at the End of the Earth, readers meet Ayoung again.
As Ayoung, who lives after the world has been rebuilt, listens to Naomi's testimony, who has lived through the era of destruction, she feels that the countless puzzles that have existed separately in her mind are forming a single, complete picture.
As she organizes Naomi's testimony and supports it with data, Ayoung reaches distinct conclusions both as a scientist searching for buried truths and as a human being with intimate memories and feelings.
What will happen in the minds of readers when they reach this conclusion along with Ayoung?

The things that a writer's first full-length novel contains are, so to speak, countless.
Scientists who pour their passion and energy into seemingly useless subjects with pure curiosity, conversations shared with respect and admiration by people of different generations, the appearance of plants that completely changed our perspective on the world, an attitude we should embrace in an age where we feel the crisis of the Earth every day, an unexpected and heartbreaking story of love… … But above all, if there is a place that 『Greenhouse at the End of the Earth』 is headed, it is our ‘hearts,’ as the author says, “Perhaps I wanted to write a story about that heart” (p. 389).

Readers have already experienced through the author's first collection how precisely and gently he explores this feeling, reaching a point they didn't even know they had.
Perhaps the author wanted to tell us that we, who have such hearts, sometimes go against each other because of certain feelings, but in the end, we end up saving each other.
So, 『Greenhouse at the End of the Earth』 can be said to be a story of salvation, a story of how “not outstanding individuals, great discoveries, or noble sacrifices, but small promises kept while remembering each other, a friendship forged through spending each day together, and a love that survives without being eroded by time” (literary critic Hwang Ye-in) saves each other.