Counterweight: A Novel

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Synopsis
A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company&’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world&’s first space elevatorAn &“antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and &“fast-paced cyberpunk story&” (The New York Times Book Review) from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.*** On the fictional island of Patusan—and much to the ire of the Patusan natives—the Korean conglomerate LK is constructing an elevator into Earth&’s orbit, gradually turning this one-time tropical resort town into a teeming travel hub: a gateway to and from our planet. Up in space, holding the elevator&’s &“spider cable&” taut, is a mass of space junk known as the counterweight. And stashed within that junk is a trove of crucial data: a memory fragment left by LK&’s former CEO, the control of which will determine the company&’s—and humanity&’s—future. Racing up the elevator to retrieve the data is a host of rival forces: Mac, the novel&’s narrator and LK&’s chief of External Affairs, increasingly disillusioned with his employer; the everyman Choi Gangwu, unwittingly at the center of Mac&’s investigations; the former CEO&’s brilliant niece and power-hungry son; and Rex Tamaki, a violent officer in LK&’s Security Division. They&’re all caught in a labyrinth of fake identities, neuro-implants called Worms, and old political grievances held by the Patusan Liberation Front, the army of island natives determined to protect Patusan&’s sovereignty. Originally conceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, Counterweight is part cyberpunk, part hard-boiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea&’s neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.
Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
176 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593317228
Related ISBNs:
9780593317211
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Anton Hur
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Anton Hur

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