Aphrodite YAMADA Masaki Translated by Edward Lipsett This important work of Japanese science fiction presents the story of Yūichi, a youth who escapes the regimented world of Japanese society for the beauty and freedom of Aphrodite, a floating island city built by the visionary Mr. Caan. Excited by the seemingly limitless potential of Aphrodite and […]
The Woman Next Door MUKŌDA Kuniko Translated by A. Reid Monroe-Sheridan Lonely people trapped in webs of their own design, seeking hope, love, forgiveness, validation… Five stories reveal the innermost hopes and fears of ordinary women, and men, facing the demands of others and of themselves in cool marriage and cold betrayal, exploring new avenues […]
I ran a commercial translation and production company called Intercom Ltd. for several decades, at one time with offices in Fukuoka, Nagoya and Tokyo and employing about a dozen people plus innumerable freelancers. After doing that for so many years I began to grow bored translating essentially the same thing again and again, and decided […]
Administrator MAYUMURA Taku Translated by Edward Lipsett Administrator, or Shiseikan in Japanese, took the Japanese SF community by storm when first published in 1974. Unlike traditional space opera, it pushed technology into the background to present a compelling portrait of colonial governors, the Administrators, trapped between the conflicting demands of Federation government, native inhabitants, and […]
The Cthulhu Helix UMEHARA Katsufumi Translated by Jim Hubbert "DNA contains two types of base pair sequences. Exons are meaningful templates for making proteins. Introns are meaningless, random sequences. Yet introns account for ninety-five percent of human DNA. Why is such a huge proportion of the genome reserved for useless code?" What if all that […]