Audiobooks

We provide audiobooks of Korean literary works published in over 48 languages around the world. Click here to access multilingual audiobooks

English(English) AudioBook

Counterweight

About the Audiobook

Author
Djuna
Co-Author
-
Translator
Anton Hur
Publisher
Books on Tape
Published Year
2023
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > SF > Fantasy

Original Title
평형추
Romanization of Original
Pyeonghyeongchu
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780593680940
The Series
OVERDRIVE LISTEN AUDIOBOOK
File Size
133157 KB
Duration
04:37:24

About the Author

Writer default image
  • Djuna
  • Birth : 1971 ~ -
  • Occupation : Science fiction Writer
  • First Name : na
  • Family Name : Dju
  • Korean Name : 듀나
  • ISNI : 0000000049005778
  • Works : 6
About the Original Work
평형추
  • 평형추
  • Author : Djuna
  • Published Year : 2021
  • English Title : -
More About the Original Work
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

On the fictional island of Patusan—and much to the ire of the Patusan natives—the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth’s orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from our planet. Up in space, holding the elevator’s “spider cable” taut, is a mass of space junk known as the counterweight. And stashed within that junk is a trove of crucial data: a memory fragment left by LK’s former CEO, the control of which will determine the company’s—and humanity’s—future.
Racing up the elevator to retrieve the data is a host of rival forces: Mac, the novel’s narrator and LK’s chief of External Affairs, increasingly disillusioned with his employer; the everyman Choi Gangwu, unwittingly at the center of Mac’s investigations; the former CEO’s brilliant niece and power-hungry son; and Rex Tamaki, a violent officer in LK’s Security Division. They’re all caught in a labyrinth of fake identities, neuro-implants called Worms, and old political grievances held by the Patusan Liberation Front, the army of island natives determined to protect Patusan’s sovereignty. Originally conceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, Counterweight is part cyberpunk, part hard-boiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea’s neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.

Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/9383038?cid=37224

Translated Books1