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Kim Bo-young

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January 01, 1975

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Kim Bo-young won the inaugural Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Award with her first published novella in 2004 and has gone on to win the annual South Korean SF Novel Award three times. In addition to writing, she regularly serves as a lecturer, juror and editor of sci-fi anthologies, and served as a consultant to Parasite director Bong Joon Ho’s earlier sci-fi film Snowpiercer. She has novellas forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2021. She lives in Gangwon Province, South Korea, with her family.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 2,833 ratings · 660 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories 3.72 avg rating — 1,937 ratings — published 2021 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young, Joungmin Lee Comfort (Translator), Sora Kim-Russell (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.32 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of World SF, Volume 2 by Lavie Tidhar (Editor), Nadia Afifi (Goodreads Author), Lavanya Lakshminarayan 3.85 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apex Book of World SF 5 by Cristina Jurado (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar (Introduction), Vina Jie-Min Prasad (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104, May 2015 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Kressel (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Andrea M. Pawley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.68 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 157, October 2019 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rich Larson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Thomas Furby (Contributor) 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'odyssée des étoiles by Kim Bo-young, Pierre Bisiou (Translator), Choi Kyungran (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarkesworld: Year Nine, Volume Two by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sean Wallace (Editor), Elizabeth Bourne 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Colors All Around Colores en Todos Partes 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die deutschen Relativsätze und ihre Entsprechungen im Koreanischen: Kontrastive Syntax und Übersetzungsproblematik (Europäische Hochschulschriften / ... Universitaires Européennes) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Back then, just the fact of living meant I wasn’t alone.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

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“Misfortune shouldn’t be a punishment, just as happiness shouldn’t be a reward.”
― Bo-Young Kim, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

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“I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.”
― Bo-Young Kim, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 104, May 2015

tags: agriculture, drought, poverty, violence

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Unhallowed Graves by Nuzo Onoh

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On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim

6 votes, 28.6%

Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada

5 votes, 23.8%

The Dwarves by Markus Heitz

3 votes, 14.3%

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