1908, 2019, 2021… .
Female writers who constantly expand time and space
Imagine a vibrant and turbulent outside world

On March 8, 1908, a fire broke out in a poorly maintained American workshop.
American workers rise up to honor the women workers who died in the fire.
In 1975, the UN designated March 8, the day the fire broke out, as 'International Women's Day' to improve the status of women around the world.
Since then, women have continued to struggle, write, love, live, and expand their sphere of influence.
In 2019, DuChristina Koch and Jessica Meir completed the first all-female spacewalk in history.
DuChristina Koch also holds the record for the longest spacewalk by a woman.
The stories of women who write, struggle, love, and live are no longer confined to Earth.
Five of Korea's hottest female SF writers have decided to join this massive movement.

On March 8, 2021, five authors, Cheon Seon-ran, Park Hae-ul, Park Mun-young, Oh Jeong-yeon, and Iruka, will publish an anthology titled “We Decided to Leave This Planet” on the theme of women and the planet to mark International Women’s Day.
The stories of women who resonate across time and space, who tirelessly strive and advance in their fields, and who expand their horizons, provide inspiration to today's female science fiction writers in Korea.
Thus, five female writers planned an anthology that would cover 'a universe of women, a planet of women, and stories of women' that go beyond Earth.
Perhaps this Earth is too small to contain all their imaginations.

Cheon Seon-ran, Park Hae-ul, Park Mun-yeong, Oh Jeong-yeon, and Iruka, if you were to name the most decisive names in the current Korean science fiction world, they would be these people.
Cheon Seon-ran and Park Hae-ul, who won the grand prize in the long-form category of the Korea Science Fiction Literature Award for “A Thousand Blues” and “Gipa,” Oh Jeong-yeon and Iruka, who also won the Korea Science Fiction Literature Award, and Park Mun-young, who won the grand prize and excellence award at the SF Award for “The Land of the Mantis” and “Women of the Earth,” respectively.
Those who are heating up the Korean SF scene the most today are all women.
The anthology "We Decided to Leave This Planet," released on March 8, 2021, to celebrate International Women's Day, exclusively features the voices of these female science fiction writers.

Do you know why people who vow to die live longer? All living things are born with a desire to live, and when that desire is distorted, they deviate from the flow of the Earth.
Even the bullets flying towards you get swept away by the air current and miss.
People who want to die end up living longer.
On the border between life and death.
When I tried to hang myself to follow my wife, the doorknob fell off.
On the way back from buying bullets, my bag was stolen, and the sleeping pills were vitamins that my wife had mistakenly taken.
When I found out it was a vitamin, I knew I couldn't die.
I had a feeling that my wife was trying to stop me from dying.
So now I want to live.
When this war is over, I will never set foot on the battlefield again.

--- From "Cheonseonran, the tree whose roots grow to the sky"

The battlefield was a place where you couldn't look at a person's face.
Because the moment you come face to face with the enemy, you can no longer aim.
It held a purple flower in its hand.

--- From "Cheonseonran, the tree whose roots grow to the sky"

If anyone is reading this, I wonder who it is. Anyway, it's nice to meet you.
I just want you to know this.
There was a person here.
Okay, okay.
Whoever you are, it doesn't matter.
Instead, I would like you to grant me a favor.

--- From "Park Hae-ul, Cradle Planet"

The place where Lee Jin sat every day was lukewarm.
The sun warmed the place just enough, but perhaps because of the cool weather, it wasn't that warm.
He stared at the scenery that Lee Jin would have seen.
In the distance, beyond the surging black waves, it seemed as if the forest he had spoken of was visible.
He secretly hoped they were still there alive.
At that time, Soo-hyeon listened clearly.
The sound of crying and drums pounding from far away.
He muttered.
“How can you say it was a waste of time?”
--- From "Park Hae-ul, Cradle Planet"

“Isn’t that funny? It depends on the situation.
We'll have to wait and see.
Let's open it… .
I wanted to close off all other possibilities.
There was no need to choose.
“Because only you were good.” Yeon-eum shook her head.
It was an unnecessary word here and now.
“When we return to Earth, we will fall in love with someone else.
Then instead of saying that you were good, you'll say that you were good too." "Why should I do that?"
--- From "Park Mun-young, Mujuji"

Yeon-eum lay on the ground and curled up as much as possible.
He loved the questions that the people of Muji had at first.
It was a phrase that was muttered more often than the open platform or parenting rules.
Is a person who cannot dream beyond what he knows really human?
Would it be beautiful to love only those who resemble oneself?
Yeon-eum enjoyed the time spent quietly pondering such questions.

--- From "Park Mun-young, Mujuji"

Mia checked again after arriving at the nursing home.
That life goes on even in a neglected future.
Cherishing and nurturing the newly begun relationship, faithfully repaying the debt of a lifetime, and preparing for the final punishment more severe than cancer by diligently saying goodbye every day.

--- From "Oh Jeong-yeon, Southern Cross"

Now, every evening and dawn, May and Harry would sit together in the yard and watch the sun and moon move across the sky.
The beginning and end of day and night overlapped and folded, following each other.
The daily prayer was always the same.
I hope that my mind doesn't die before my body.

--- From "Oh Jeong-yeon, Southern Cross"

I look different every time people meet me.
Whether by voice or text, if people want to see it in a visible form, show them what they want to see.
The me you see now was also created that way.
Most people are confused or try to figure out why they want this look, but some people just accept it with an expression like they knew it, or they don't care at all in any way.
They focus on existence itself.
Right here, like exit 2.
This place is a collection of soul, consciousness, and spirit.
For us, these relationships that allow us to know each other as beings beyond time and space are precious.

--- From "Iruka, meet me at exit 2"

I remember my mother's white hair and the wrinkles that formed a perfect fit for her face, which was always full of laughter.
It breaks my heart that I didn't hear your last words and that I didn't tell you that you had become an alien researcher, but I remember your eyes that shone brighter than anyone else's and your smile that perfectly matched your wrinkles.
The smile that remained on my mother's peaceful face when she closed her eyes.
You think.
That's enough.
I know.
Your frequency has been completed, and you can now leave through Exit 2.

--- From "Iruka, meet me at exit 2"