Counterweight
by Djuna
Descriptions
From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, 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 elevator.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 it?s here that lies the key?a trove of personal data left by LK?s former CEO, of dire consequence to 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
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