완전한 항해

In this future, a tuning agency lets the wealthy integrate other selves into a single, flawless whole, and Changyeon has been assembling himself this way for years. On his fiftieth birthday he is to absorb Chang, a member of the Lu, who has a week left of his own life; the merger would grant Chang eternal existence inside the rich man. Told in turns from both sides, the story follows Chang as he longs for a free flight of his own and for someone flying beside him who would know that what he sees is real. Among zombies, robots, cyborgs and split-off selves, it asks about death, faith, ethics and identity for those who will not fit the systems humans have built.

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About the book

Form

Short story

First published

2008 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

32 when first published