"Everything Good Dies Here presents the wide-ranging speculative fiction of pseudonymous author, film critic, and internet cult hero Djuna, whose strange and wondrous tales and early interventions into digital culture have helped shape the South Korean imaginary. The stories brought together in this collection span the author's career from the 1990s through the 2010s. In addition to five stand-alone stories that draw upon influences from 19th-century Korean Confucian literati culture to the early days of the internet to future societies light years away, this volume collects for the first time in a single volume all six stories set in a distant universe governed by a mutating virus that has sent human beings reeling through a dizzying array of fracturing realities. Blending influences ranging from popular genre fiction to the golden age of Hollywood to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Djuna's stories evoke a universe that's at once familiar and clearly fantastical. Made up of fragments, half remembered possibilities, and longings, Everything Good Dies Here provides a sharp, brilliantly intertextual, and mordantly funny critique of the human condition as it evolves into both less and more than what it once was"--
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