[DeepL Translation - needs review] The Last Proof by Lee Hae-jin has been published as the twenty-sixth book of Safe House Show-Twenty-six.
The Last Proof is an expansion of The Last Gift, an honorable mention for the Korean Physics Society SF Award, and is a science fiction romance novel in which astrophysicists Baek Young and Yang Seo-ah try to save each other from the Great Catastrophe, a catastrophe that has wreaked havoc on the entire planet. The story of two people who are physically s...
Medium-soft sci-fi with medium romance
So this is billed as a sci-fi romance. But from my perspective, there was no justification provided for why the POV character was so obsessed with the other character. At least not at the beginning. So the yearning felt very melodramatic until later in the book, and until the end tbh -- the characters never did anything to express their feelings before being separated and, well, I'll leave you to find out for yourselves what happens at the end. If soft sci-fi is purely vibes with no need for th