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The ending only you don't know
The ending only you don't know
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Book Introduction
Winner of the 1st Han Nak-won Science Fiction Award and the 2016 SF Award Excellence Award
A collection of quirky, lively, and realistic science fiction novels by Choi Young-hee.
“Watch, no matter what happens, I will drive the universe towards you!”

What if aliens settled on Earth, captivated by the smell of watermarks? What if Earth's fate hinged on three-striped slippers? What if an alien planet knew "South Korean middle schoolers" were Earth's secret weapon? Winner of the 1st Han Nak-won Science Fiction Award and the 2016 SF Award Excellence Award, author Choi Young-hee's whimsical and lively new SF collection, "The Ending Only You Don't Know," is now available as issue #116 from the Sajejeol 1318 Library.
The book features aliens as a fairly easy-to-communicate opponent, an invader trying to wipe out humanity, and a local fortune teller.

And there's also a teenager who loses his first love to his friend and wants to settle on an alien star, a young innocent teenager who doesn't know he's the last vote on the annihilation of humanity, and a teenager who accidentally becomes a human weapon and ends up making a superhero movie.
As you read the science fiction novels by author Choi Young-hee, who wrote them with the intention of introducing teenagers to aliens and teenagers to aliens, your affection for aliens and teenagers will increase infinitely.
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The Unwritten Story
The Last Im Seol-mi
The ending only you don't know
Human weapon of the day
The road to Alpha
Author's Note

Into the book
Call me Ishmael.
And according to legend, Herman Melville placed a curse on the first sentence of Moby Dick.
The curse is that you fall asleep as soon as you read the first sentence of Moby Dick.
Ki-young also couldn't avoid the curse, and fell asleep after reading the first sentence every day.
As it happened, Moby Dick was just the right thickness to read and sleep on.
--- From "Unwritten Stories"

The night view outside the window was so clear that my nose felt tingly.
I was moved again by the sight of people walking around.
No matter what happened tomorrow, it wasn't Im Seol-mi's fault.
And it wasn't the fault of the other students who unknowingly voted for the annihilation of humanity.
The responsibility lies with those who created such absurd contractual clauses.
--- From "The Last Im Seol-mi"

I was running to school when I got a call from my mom.
Hojae was momentarily overcome with emotion at the sound of his mother's voice scolding him for running out without even eating.
There was nothing to plan for the future.
The place where Hojae lives now is also a decent place to live.
Because there's a mom who runs a fried chicken rib restaurant, and there's Min-ah who jumps in regardless of the danger when Ho-jae is in danger.
--- From "The Ending Only You Don't Know"

Kyungsoo's original eyesight was about 0.7, but thanks to the T-998, he could now see not only the signs near the intersection, but even the expression on the face of the high school girl coming out of the convenience store across the intersection with strawberry milk.
It was a cute and fresh night.
Kyungsoo wanted to show this wide-open world to the long-haired man who was shut in his room.
--- From "Human Weapon of That Day"

Only after seeing Jinah did Beta seem to understand why he had planned this.
The words that said to come see me alive were not an order from the source.
That was a promise between the two.
Beta-Jina kept the memories of Jin-ah in order to keep that promise.
And after six years, Mika kept that promise.
--- From "The Road to Alpha"

Publisher's Review
The Unwritten Story - Call Me Middle Schooler.
Before developing Earth into a new tourist attraction, a Troop planet official who came to Earth for a field trip overhears at a hamburger restaurant in Washington, D.C., that "even aliens are too scared to invade South Korean middle school students."
The epicenter was a group of South Korean parents on a tour package to visit prestigious universities in the eastern United States. The Troops regarded South Korean middle school students as Earth's secret weapon and began investigating.
A government official from Planet Troop sets out to kidnap a South Korean middle school student based solely on the clues he has: 'bloodshot eyes, uniform, weak gait, aggressiveness, extreme mood swings, and self-centeredness'. He assumes an old man is a South Korean middle school student and tries to get him on his spaceship.
The person who discovered it was Woo Ki-young from Naksuk Middle School in Goyang City, South Korea.
Ki-young loses his first love, Lime, to his friend. Instead of going to school, he lies down on a park bench in shock. Then, seeing something absurd unfold before his eyes, he hurriedly boards a spaceship.
How would Kiyoung explain the true nature of South Korean middle schoolers to an astronaut? Are the South Korean middle schoolers we know truly Earth's secret weapon?

The fate of the Earth depends on the last Im Seol-mi-Samseon slippers?
In the early 1990s, during the height of the Gulf War, the planet Zwein launched a spaceship over New York City with the intention of conquering Earth.
However, the Earth Defense Command, unable to afford another war due to the Gulf War, proposed negotiations instead of war to the planet Tsubain.
However, the "Agreement on Postponing the Extinction of Humanity" proposed by the Tsubain side was to install an explosive device that would wipe out humanity in just one minute, and to put it into action the moment all voters agreed to the extermination of humanity.
The explosives were planted underground in the playground of Naksok Middle School in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. The reason for this is that the pattern on the three-striped slippers worn by the students coincidentally matches the language structure of the planet Tsubain.
The three lines on the three-striped slippers meant “I agree to the annihilation of humanity.”
Furthermore, this agreement is a horribly unfair agreement in that any student who is forced to not wear the three-stripe slippers is automatically considered a yes vote.
It turns out that the class president, Oh Si-taek, who tries to force Im Seol-mi to wear three-striped slippers, is a spy for Tsubain, and the student body president who catches students inappropriately dressed in front of the school gate is a special agent of the Earth Defense Command.
Now, if only Im Seol-mi wears three-striped slippers to school, the Earth will be destroyed...


The ending that only you don't know - "Watch, no matter what happens, I will drive the universe to where you are."
Mr. Heup, a liquid alien with the appearance of an ordinary middle-aged man from South Korea, is a fortune teller who settled on Earth after falling in love with the smell of water and is active as a member of the Daran Market Merchants Association.
He is predicting the future of his customers with a 'device for extracting future design and possibility branch points based on multiverse theory'.
While planning Hojae's future through this device, Hojae mentions the type of wife he wants to avoid and finds out that that person is none other than Min-ah.
Min-ah has been a friend since kindergarten, and in Ho-jae's eyes, she is unpredictable, a quirky rapper, and a 'national, English, math, and science major'.
Hojae schemes to enter universes where there is no chance of him and Minah becoming a couple in order to achieve a perfect future, but instead, he falls head over heels for Minah.
But due to the already changed universe, Min-ah and Ho-jae have been on bad terms since kindergarten...
Will Hojae be able to change his future?

The Human Weapon of the Day: The Birth of Powerful Cyberware That Would Make Even Iron Man Cry
Gyeong-su, who is always short on pocket money because he has to pay the Geumran PC Room fees to the hei-dae gang, visits Chromesoft, a cyberware development company, to do a part-time job where he experiences new, high-paying clothing concepts.
Originally, it was an experience of a new type of protective suit that would not be affected by any biochemical terrorism or nuclear attack, but when the person in charge looked away for a moment, Gyeong-su put on a special combat suit T-998 and became a human weapon.
This cyberware works by asking the person wearing the combat suit once every 24 hours whether or not to take it off, so it cannot be taken off at any time.
Kyungsoo, who is forced to wear the T-998 24 hours a day, decides to take advantage of this opportunity.
Gyeong-su goes to find his best friend Hwon, who dropped out of school a few months ago due to bullying from the Heedae gang and doesn't even leave the house or meet with Gyeong-su. He becomes Hwon's human weapon and beats up the Heedae gang.
Finally, after 24 hours, it was time to take off the T-998, but there was another human weapon that had burst through the wall, ready to fly all the way to the moon… … .

The Road to Alpha - A "Hello, Beta" Spin-Off Born from Strong Reader Demand
The human Mika, with her visual device switched to black and white mode, waits for the day to go to the 'swamp'.
The swamp is an abandoned radiation-damaged area from the nuclear power plant collapse, and it is said that humans have gathered and are living there instead of humans.
But Mika is sometimes bewildered by memories that break through the black and white mode and come to mind in color, accompanied by pain.
This is a memory of a child named Jinah who calls herself Beta, but this data is not Mika's memory.
Mika believes she is a substitute human adopted by an old couple from an orchard, but she learns that this is actually virtual data.
Mika goes to find the replacement human body modification engineer, Akchai, who gave her her current appearance and voice.
And then we learn that it was Mika herself who erased her original memories and replaced them with artificial memories.
It is also said that at some point in the future, a restoration system in the form of a virus was planted to restore past memories.
Mika learns that she was Beta-Jina and that this entire process was all her own doing to ultimately meet Jina.
Beta goes to meet Jin-ah, a 20-something worker who works as a supervisor at a cartridge production plant. Will they recognize each other? This novel is a companion to "Hello, Beta," winner of the first Han Nak-won Science Fiction Award.

A story about two beings, half real and half imaginary.
In the eyes of author Choi Young-hee, youth are unique beings that cannot be touched by aliens or cosmic energy.
He holds the key to the destruction of humanity, and can even actively change the future of the multiverse if he so desires.
The important thing is to be able to judge reality and realize your own abilities even in a new world and unfamiliar environment.
Ultimately, science fiction is also a story about humans, a story about life.
This collection of works by the author, who created a sci-fi world that is closely related to the lives of young people, is filled with hopes and encouragement for young people to create their own universes by doing whatever they want.


“A new life theme has emerged for me, who was nothing more than an alien tracker.
It's about creating stories about youth.
I don't really know much about teenagers.
I write your story without knowing anything about it.
Maybe they're chasing you like aliens.
You are half true and half imaginary to me.
(…) It was a pleasure introducing aliens to you.
“Perhaps it was a process of introducing you to aliens.” - From the author’s note
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: November 9, 2018
- Page count, weight, size: 168 pages | 296g | 145*225*13mm
- ISBN13: 9791160944068
- ISBN10: 1160944067

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