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  • All you need is kill

    There’s only one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again….

  • Slum online

    Etsuro Sakagami is a college freshman who simply drifts through life, but when he logs on to the combat MMO Versus Town, he becomes Tetsuo, a karate champ on his way to becoming the most powerful martial artist around. While his relationship with new classmate Fumiko goes nowhere, Etsuro spends his days and nights online…

  • Ten billion days and one hundred billion nights

    Ten billion days–that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights–that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel into the future to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the…

  • Usurper of the sun

    The mysterious Builders have brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event. Someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon, the Builders…

  • The lord of the sands of time

    Sixty-two years after human life on Earth was annihilated by rampaging alien invaders, the enigmatic Messenger O is sent back in time with a mission to unite humanity of past eras–during the Second World War and ancient Japan, and even back to the dawn of the species itself–to defeat the invasion before it begins. However,…

  • Speculative Japan 2 : “The man who watched the sea” and other tales

  • Crystal silence

    It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth.

  • Genocidal organ

    The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence…

  • Speculative Japan : Outstanding tales of Japanese science fiction and fantasy