Waiting for You - The Wait of a Man as Lonely as the Earth

"Waiting for You" is a work written by a man who was a fan of author Kim Bo-young and asked her to write it for him in order to propose to his girlfriend.
The contents of the letter were as follows:

Hello, I'm actually getting married soon, but I haven't been able to propose yet. So I'm trying to read a short story about a proposal, but I can't find it among the published works. My girlfriend happens to really like you, so I'm asking you to please write just one short story.

This is precisely why the main character of this work is a man.
Thanks to the love between these two people, a science fiction novel about a proposal intertwined with reality was born.
They say good work changes people.
Author Kim Bo-young herself said this after writing this novel.

“I thought that if I finished writing this and didn’t feel like I wanted to love someone, then I wouldn’t have written it properly.
After writing it all down, I actually felt that way.
“Just writing for one or two people can make writing so smooth, so I wonder how much writing for a loved one, living with that one person in mind, can change a person’s life.”

A beautiful love story like never before unfolds in space.

I'm Coming to You - A Woman's Longing More Desperate Than the Speed ​​of Light

"Waiting for You" had to be short because it was a proposal novel, and so there were parts where I had to cut out the story I had in mind.
Author Kim Bo-young wanted to write "Going to You" from a woman's perspective as a follow-up to "Waiting for You," written from a man's perspective, and give it as a gift to the object of her proposal, who is now her wife. After a long wait, she has finally completed the story and presented it to the public.


Author Kim Bo-young sent a draft of the novel to the woman who would receive it as a gift, allowing her to be the first to read it.
If the protagonist of "Waiting for You" endured a painful time while waiting for a woman, the protagonist of "Going to You" endures a painful time that seems like it will never end in order to go to a man.
Events briefly mentioned in the previous work come to life in this work, showing in detail what happened.
In it, we can see despair and hope shining like starlight.

People Going to the Future - Faust in Space or Faust's Universe

"People Going to the Future" is the last story in the novel's timeline, but it was the first novel to be written.
The protagonist of this novel, Seong-ha, becomes the child of the protagonists of the previous novel.
The couple who received the two works as gifts named their baby Seongha, thus bringing these three works together in the time of the novel and in the time of reality.

Unlike previous works that tell personal stories, "People Going to the Future" deals with a grand story about the fate of the universe and the nature of humanity.
The novel begins with the navigator Selene reading Goethe's Faust, and deals with the issues of Faust and immortality from a science fiction perspective.

Things to note

Two of the three books in the [Stella Odyssey Trilogy], “Waiting for You” and “Coming to You,” have been sold to HarperCollins, the largest publisher in the United States, and are scheduled to be published.
Also, immediately after the book's publication, a play of the same name based on "Waiting for You" from the "Stella Odyssey Trilogy" will be released.
Adapted and directed by Jeon In-cheol of Extreme Breakthrough, the play will be performed at the Hongik University Daehangno Art Center Small Theater from Thursday, June 4 to Sunday, June 7.
Additionally, film company 'Filmlux' has signed a contract to adapt 'Waiting for You' and 'Going to You' into a film, and is currently working on the screenplay.
Filmlux plans to complete the scenario within this year and begin full-scale production in 2021. The company is also considering the possibility of adapting the film into an OTT drama.


A world of romantic wonder unfolding beyond the horizon of science (from literary critic Seo Hee-won's commentary)

In that sense, Kim Bo-young's 'Stella Odyssey Trilogy' can be clearly pointed out as a romantic voyage of the human soul navigating the space-time that Einstein unfolded.
It is very obvious why Kim Bo-young refers to the spaceship that enables interplanetary travel at the speed of light as a “ship,” the crew working on this spaceship as a “captain” and “sailors,” and the place where the ship arrives and where the main characters meet as a “port” rather than an airport.
For Kim Bo-young, the journey of light through space is understood as a ‘romantic voyage’ in which humans embark on a quest for the ultimate meaning of self and the specialness of love.
In that respect, the “sailboat” that “I” in “Waiting for You” rides alone and drifts through space can be said to be a symbol of the lofty loneliness that a romantic soul has reached.


"Waiting for You," "Going to You," and "People Going to the Future" are epics about the lonely human soul drifting through the gaps of time created by the speed of light, and praise for humans who sail the universe in search of their destination, looking up to the romantic passion of love as if it were a constellation in the sky.
In particular, the passion displayed by His Holiness in "Those Who Go to the Future" and his unwavering conviction to go to the ends of the universe cannot be explained without the modern hero Faust.
I will call this trilogy by Kim Bo-young the "Stellar Odyssey," borrowing the term from "The Odyssey," which was written by Homer 3,000 years ago and describes the adventures of Odysseus as he navigates the Aegean Sea's time and space distorted by the wrath of the gods and their magical powers, and from "2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)," a collaboration between film director Stanley Kubrick and science fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke.