The Country of the Young
Posted on October 29, 2007
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“The Country of the Young” was the third full story I drafted at Clarion West, for the week when Nalo Hopkinson was our instructor.
(And both Nalo’s and the class’s comments, and some discussion of the biology of aging with my classmate Guy Immega, were a great help to me.)
I’d long been thinking of writing a story set in a post-reunification, corporate-annexed North Korea. A theme I’d intended to work with earlier ended up being set aside, in advance, for the next story I planned to write at the workshop, but that worked out well because it gave me a chance to explore themes in the corporatized North: politics and class, immigration, the glitchiness of life-extension technology and its effect on future immigration, intercultural relationships, and more.
Also, I decided to work very literally with a comment made by Maureen McHugh a few weeks earlier, but I won’t say more as it’s a spoiler for the story.
“The Country of the Young” is forthcoming at Interzone, which blows me away. I’m a huge fan of the magazine.
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