Fiction and essays for readers who underline.
Aorael Books is a brand-new Seoul press whose first title is already out — a practical guide to foreseeing the future with AI. Next up: voice-driven novels, essay collections, and literature in translation, edited to be reread.
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How to Foresee the Future with AI
A Practical Guide to Reading, Exploring, Choosing, and Shaping Tomorrow with Artificial Intelligence
"The future is not one. It never arrives fully formed — it first appears as a faint signal in the present, and it is made, little by little, by the questions we ask and the choices we make today."
A hands-on guide to futures thinking for the age of artificial intelligence — beyond the old dream of predicting tomorrow. Across ten chapters and five parts, Dr. Hwangbo shows how to read change, imagine many possible futures, and choose the one we want, together with AI. This edition is fully revised for the AI era, expanding the author's earlier book into a method for thinking with AI, not just about it.
- Read the signals of change that quietly announce the future
- Use the core methods — horizon scanning, Delphi, scenario planning, backcasting, cross-impact analysis
- Work with AI as a thinking partner while keeping human judgment
- See how AI is reshaping work, learning, health, culture, and relationships
- Watch AI, energy, and climate change one another's futures
- Ask the governance question — who decides the future, and for whom
"We publish for the reader who underlines — books built to hold up on the second pass."
Aorael launched in 2026 out of a shared complaint: most manuscripts get edited for speed, and the ones we love most need time instead. We're a new press — no long backlist, just a clear idea of the kind of books we want to spend the next decade publishing.
Every manuscript we take on gets two structural passes and a full line edit, done in the room with its author, long before it goes near a printer.
The shelf has its first spine.
How to Foresee the Future with AI went live on 11 October 2026. We're reading for the books that will stand beside it — the shelf fills slowly, on purpose.
One out, more in reading
The first title is available on Amazon now. Everything else on this shelf is being decided the way we said — slowly, in the room with the author.
Meet the first titleFrom inbox to first run
Reading
We read every agented submission and roughly a third of what arrives during our open call. Most manuscripts get a decision within twelve weeks.
Edit
Two structural passes and a full line edit, worked through directly with the author — not tracked changes disappearing into a shared drive.
Design & Print
Covers are designed in-house. First runs are offset-printed in small batches; reprints follow demand rather than a fixed schedule.
Open call runs every September.
Agented fiction and essay collections are read year-round; unagented submissions are read during our open month.
What we're looking for
- Literary fiction and linked story collections
- Essay collections with a clear spine
- Fiction in translation, with a sample translated chapter
- Poetry manuscripts, occasionally