{"product_id":"counterweight-djuna","title":"Counterweight [Djuna]","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\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--from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRacing 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-implant \"Worms,\" and old political grievances held by the Patusan Liberation Front, the army of island natives determined to protect Patusan's sovereignty.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eConceived by Djuna as a low-budget science fiction film, with literary references as wide-ranging as Joseph Conrad and the Marquis de Sade, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCounterweight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is part cyberpunk, part hardboiled detective fiction, and part parable of South Korea's neocolonial ambition and its rippling effects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42648177344688,"sku":"9780593317211b","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2341\/9361\/files\/imageedit_628_3004256602.jpg?v=1682973346","url":"https:\/\/pandemoniumbooks.com\/products\/counterweight-djuna","provider":"Pandemonium Books and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}