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I got a day with Casey! Hurray!

He‘s currently helping me tackle the last story in this Korean collection about a skyscraper city. Alas, it‘s the sort of ideas-over-people SF I struggle to click with, so I ain‘t as wowed as the folks who recced it to me. There‘s enough meat here that I‘ll finish it, at least, but it won‘t make my list of stellar short fiction recs.

What a wonderfully strange collection of short stories set in a city-state skyscraper of immense proportions in Korea. It's a bit sci-fi with robots, a bit absurdism with dog actors and elephants reaching nirvana, & a bit dystopian with gov ineptitude and corruption centered around things as absurd as elevator routes. I absolutely loved it & managed to read it in only a handful of days despite being in a terrible reading slump.

Witty, dark and imaginative, this political satire set in speculative Korea includes six interconnected stories about the lives of the citizens of a 647-building that acts as its own sovereign nation. Recommend to those who enjoy political satire and speculative fiction and for those looking to expand their world just a little bit.

Full review: https://www.instagram.com/p/CMPsmQngbT6/?igshid=1afib0bmyntjx