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About

Sevin Kwon is a teen-age novelist and satirist living in Palo Alto, California. He was born in South Korea in 2007, moved to the States at the age of one, and has been writing creatively from an early age. He started writing short picture books in kindergarten, original comic books in second grade, and full-length novels in the second half of his high school freshman year. He published his first novel, Mark Starman in the 21st Century on April 9, 2024.

Sevin is a born-again evangelical Christian, dedicated to following the Lord Jesus Christ and sharing the good news of His death and resurrection. (Therefore, any violence and/or profanity in his written works is solely for the sake of realism, not endorsement thereof.) He enjoys science fiction, Minecraft, comics, history, military technology, seafood, and the study of the Bible. He supports democracy, free-market capitalism, the police, the military, Israel, nuclear energy, meat-eating, traditional marriage and gender roles, the correct teaching of American history, the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment. He does NOT support Communism, socialism, anarchism, abortion, homosexuality, transsexualism, feminism, environmentalism, animal "rights," historical revisionism, or critical race theory. However, he is not above pointing out obvious historical inaccuracies espoused by American exceptionalism for the sake of comedy.

List of Titles

• Mark Starman in the 21st Century (2024): A retrofuturistic hard science fiction adventure based on future predictions of the 1980s. On June 16, 1985, the titular ten-year-old boy falls asleep in a secret government lab, then wakes up 100 years later to find the world changed. Man has colonized the Solar System, spaceships powered by nuclear fusion travel between the nine planets in days, and the ships and men of the United Nations Navy fight bravely to defend interstellar commerce from armed space pirates. Partially against his will, Mark gets himself on board the space cruiser Indianapolis and drawn into an interplanetary hunt for a Vietnam War-era biological weapon that may cost him his life. Note: somewhat violent (again, for realism's sake) and not actually a children's book.
• Gods and Heroes of American Mythology (2024): A satire of traditional views of American History. After Christopher the Mariner became the first man ever to set foot on the Land of the Free, the descendants of the Pilgrims were enslaved by a cruel demon king. The people cried out, and the gods descended to save them from oppression! George, the god of war, Thomas, the god of freedom, and the other gods led the American people to glorious victory in their fight for freedom. Dive into the epic story of the Free Kingdom, from their expansion into the uninhabited Promised Lands, to their tumultuous Civil War resolved by King Abraham the Tall, to their struggles against the evil Red Demons that was spearheaded by King Ronald the Old. Praised be the gods and the name of freedom forever!
• √49 Creative Writing Academy: A Collection of Short Stories by the Students (2024): Exactly what it sounds like. In the summer of 2024, I hosted a creative writing workshop for children 8-12 years old; these are seven stories some of them wrote as part of the workshop.