The Novel's Extra

A novel is a world unto itself, filled with billions of people—but only heroes, heroines, and important supporting characters ever receive names. Kim Hajin wakes up inside the very story he wrote, yet not as anyone he remembers creating: just an ordinary cadet at an agent academy, with no ties to the plot and no place on the page. He has become an extra in his own novel—no, something even less than that: dust in the story’s margins.