The narrator of this deeply affecting and meticulously crafted novel meets a young woman named Shino, a waitress at a local restaurant near the university he attends. Emboldened by a night of drinking, he approaches her. She promises to see him the next e
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
