{"product_id":"counterweight","title":"Counterweight","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCounterweight\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDjuna\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593469071\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWIRED \u003c\/i\u003e\"BOOK YOU NEED TO READ\" - For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, \u003ci\u003eSquid Game\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSeverance: \u003c\/i\u003eAn 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 elevator\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn \"antic, madcap noir with flair\" (\u003ci\u003eWired) \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"fast-paced cyberpunk story\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*** \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCounterweight \u003c\/i\u003eis part cyberpunk, part hard-boiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea's neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Counterweight | Djuna | Paperback | 9780593469071 | New | Sci-Fi \u0026 Fantasy 1694938","offer_id":50731624890626,"sku":"1694938","price":31.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/717biGhE6zL.jpg?v=1791908929","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/counterweight","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}