Where No One Comes 아무도 오지 않는 곳에서

Cheon Seon-ran, author of The Thousand Blues, Moss Forest, and Mower, returns with a new trilogy of interconnected stories. Since winning the Korean Science Fiction Award Grand Prize in 2019 with The Thousand Blues, she has continued to earn broad support from readers with each work she publishes. Life Pattern Korea. Her stories have been adapted into plays and musicals, published in the English-speaking world through Penguin Random House, and even contracted for film adaptation with Warner Brothers Pictures. Now she presents her second triptych novel, Where No One Comes.
Cheon has steadily explored the ethics of humans and nonhumans, loss and survival, salvation and care. Where No One Comes extends that journey, pushing her emotional sensibilities to the extreme on the stage she has long cherished: the zombie apocalypse. Life Pattern Korea. The three stories each confront the apocalypse from different times and spaces—Part One depicts the moment infection and collapse spread to a migrant spaceship, forcing choices about what to save and what to let go; Part Two follows those who could not escape Earth and shows how caring for one another becomes the key not only to survival but to continuing life itself.
Part Three portrays beings who are neither human nor zombie—creatures who remain on Earth after humanity has vanished—continuing to remember and sustain love even beyond the end. Across all three stories runs the shared thread: the heart that cannot let go of a loved one, and the will to live in a way that allows you to live as well. Life Pattern Korea.
As actor Park Jung-min asks in his endorsement, “Cheon, what kind of love have you lived to write this?”, the trilogy tells of those who cannot release the ones they love and strive not to forget one another. People who live embracing death and loss, and the warmth that still lingers at their fingertips, form Cheon's world. Life Pattern Korea. And as novelist Baek On-yu observes—“Why are zombies so painfully human?”—this work delicately captures the emotional remnants humans cannot discard, expressed through the figure of the zombie. Within a world where life and death, humans and zombies, ruin and paradise intermingle, Cheon gazes at the love that continues even after the end.

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Author: 천선란 Cheon Seonran
Publisher: 허블 Hubble (2025)

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