Counterweight
Author: Djuna
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 176
Finished: Yes
Final Rating: 8/10
Final Rating: 8/10
Counterweight is a slick techo-noir thriller set in the near future, on the fictional island of Patusa. Our narrator, Mac, LK's Chief of Internal Affairs, gets caught up in a truly Byzantine plot of corporate intrigue and transhumanism that would make William Gibson proud.
Counterweight is a tight sub-200 page novel with plenty of cool ideas and action, complete with red herrings, twists, turns, pirouettes, twirls, etc, etc you get the idea. The plot involves the world's first space elevator, with a secret hidden inside the counterweight that uh, anchors the elevators cable in space I guess. The counterweight is more than a collection of space junk though, as it holds a potentially dangerous secret.
Djuna is a pseudonymous South Korean author that I had never heard of before reading Counterweight. I believe this is the first and only novel of theirs that has been translated into English. According to Google, the novel was originally conceived as a short film.(which I'm sure would have been awesome). Counterweight really whet my appetite for more of Djuna's work, so I hope more of it is translated in the future.
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