Park Mingyu, a cult writer of Korean youth, was born in 1968 in the city of Ulsan. In 1986, despite a persistent dislike for learning, he entered the Faculty of Creative Writing at Chunnan University, from which, despite a persistent dislike for learning, he still managed to graduate. However, putting financial well-being above literature, Park Mingyu gets a job that has nothing to do with his education. Earning a living turns out to be difficult, and Park Mingyu discovers that he has a persistent dislike for work. And at some point he feels a great desire to put pen to paper. Published in 2003, the novel “The Legend of an Earthly Hero” unexpectedly arouses the interest of readers, brings the author recognition in writing circles and receives a prize for the best literary debut. Since then, every book by this darling of fate has received prestigious literary awards. There are ten incredible stories in this collection. Here, a refrigerator in a past life was a football fan, here people turn into raccoons and giraffes, insidious aliens steal crops from a communist farmer, not a rocket, but a passenger bus is used to fly into space - and much, much more, which at first glance seems complete delirium, but then...