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Episode: I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young | Book Club: Love, Free Will & the Cosmos
Description: This month in book club, Marisa Serafini (@serafinitv) and I dive into one of the most quietly mind-bending works of speculative fiction we’ve read: I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories by Kim Bo-young, translated by Sophie Bowman and Sung Ryu.Structured as two pairs of interconnected stories, this collection explores love stretched across galaxies, time distorted by relativity, godlike creators questioning their own authority, and humanity wrestling with the meaning of free will.In “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way,” an engaged couple travel on separate interstellar missions, attempting to manipulate time dilation so they can re...