Japanese science fiction meets the European avant-garde—available for the first time in English

Contents

Foreword: From Surrealism to Postmodernism
Takayuki Tatsumi

Death Sentences
Prologue: The Tracker
1. Another World
2. The Gold of Time
3. Undiscovered Century
4. The Shade of the Shadow of Light
5. Voyagers
The Final Chapter: Oblivion

Afterword: Vortex Time
Thomas Lamarre

Notes

Kawamata Chiaki is well known in Japan as the author of science fiction novels.

Thomas Lamarre is professor of East Asian studies and communication studies at McGill University.

Kazuko Y. Behrens is assistant professor of development psychology at Texas Tech University.

Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio University.