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
Fifty-seven-year-old Takeshi has just been involved in a traffic accident. When he wakes up, he is in a strange bar and is no longer crippled as he has been for most of his life, but able to walk without crutches in his everyday business suit. Looking aro
This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women