
The Proposal
Translated by Stella Kim
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A space-born soldier and a civilian exchange letters as war looms between Earth and a mysterious alien adversary. Their correspondence begins as bureaucratic formality and evolves into something intimate, urgent, and increasingly aware that the future they're writing toward may not exist. Bae Myung-hoon's novella wraps a love story inside a space opera and discovers that the most compelling drama isn't the interstellar conflict but the two people trying to connect across the distance between them. A story told entirely in letters — about the courage required to propose a future to someone when the present is trying to eliminate the possibility of one.
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