“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
Never before has an anthology of Japanese science fiction appeared in English. This volume introduces ten masters of the genre to Western readers. Unique in its themes, the work of Japanese SF writers, in the words of David Lewis, "does not seek a path to
