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Our pick of the latest science fiction for April 2021: tales of time bending and worlds ending

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-pick-of-the-latest-science-fiction-for-april-2021-tales-of-time-bending-and-worlds-ending-26k8kt83r
Journal
The Times & The Sunday Times
Issued Date
April 22, 2021
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
-
Book
I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories
Writer
Bo-yong Kim
Translator
Sung Ryu,Sophie Bowman

About the Author

  • Bo-yong Kim
  • Birth : 1975 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Bo-yong
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김보영
  • ISNI : 0000000464574302
  • Works : 9
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  • English(English)

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong era? Want to skip to the year your pension plan matures? Then leap on a ship bound for the Orbit of Waiting: it’ll draw a close-to-light-speed, time-dilating helix around the sun and then return to the place it departed from. In I’m Waiting for You, the title story in this dazzling and accomplished collection from the South Korean writer Kim Bo-young, a young passenger sails around the Orbit of Waiting, marking time before he can be reunited with his bride-to-be, who’s sailing back from Alpha Centauri. The couple’s missed connections and crossed letters begin as farce, then rapidly take on an epic scale as the weeks, then the months, then the years shoot by,

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