On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

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Kim Bo-Young's debut English-language collection straddles science fiction, fantasy, and myth with the confidence of a writer who sees no reason to choose between them. A species evolves according to its own alien logic. A woman discovers that the universe operates on principles her science cannot accommodate. Myths reveal themselves as engineering specifications for reality. Acknowledged in South Korea as a pioneer of the genre, Kim writes speculative fiction that is philosophically dense and emotionally precise — each story built around an idea so large it threatens to overwhelm the narrative, yet held together by characters whose struggles remain intensely human. The essential introduction to South Korea's most distinctive science fiction voice — stories that take Darwin's title literally and discover that evolution has stranger plans than anyone imagined.