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Issue 34.2: Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction is published by Favian Press and is available through the publisher’s website and major distributors. Visit links.

Newtrospection wraps up with “#CliFi, Noir, and The Nonhuman Subject in @Netflix’s The Silent Sea (2021),” a critical review by Katrina Younes.

In “This Inexplicable Complexity That Underscores Our Humanity,” Sang-Keun Yoo interviews The School Nurse Files director Kyoung-mi Lee (.

@sfwa Nebula finalist Space Sweepers director Sung-hee Jo is interviewed by Sang-Keun Yoo in “Those Left on Earth Are Equally Significant.”.

Hearin Shin interviews SF novelist Bo-Young Kim (“Genre Narratives Are Powerful Tools to Illustrate the Beauty of an Unfamiliar World.”.

As if these aren’t thrilling enough, Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean #Speculative Fiction includes 3 author and director #interviews in English and the original Korean.

Enjoy some design fiction with @seoyoung_chu’s “Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’: A Design-Fictional Approach to #Korea.”.

@sangeun_eunice queries the #webtoon gamification of life in “Life Reset: Resisting Gamified Life in South #Korean #Speculative Webtoons.”.

Sang-Keun Yoo takes readers through the challenges of “Becoming a #Ghost: Newtrospective Representation of Historical Violence Through #VirtualReality Media in Gina Kim’s Bloodless” (.

“Two Can Play This @squidgame: The Japanese Entanglements of South Korean #Speculative #Fiction” immerses readers in a deep dive through history and present realities with Se Young Kim.

Ji-Eun Lee challenges readers in “A Radical Future: #Gender and #ScienceFiction in Contemporary #Korean #Literature.”.

Launching Newtrospection, Sang-Keun Yoo surveys the history—or lack thereof—of English-language scholarship on South Korean #scifi and explains the concept of #Newtrospection itself.

This focused issue, which studies #sciencefiction from #SouthKorea through the lens of aptly-named Newtrospection, brings together cutting edge material under the Guest Editorship of Haerin Shin and Sang-Keun Yoo.

Issue 34.2 of the @IAFA_TW Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts is available in e-reader and paperback formats! Visit more information!

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