Ten billion days and one hundred billion nights
| ISBN: | 9781421539041, 1421539047 |
| OCLC Number: | 697261865 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| Author: | Ryu Mitsuse |
| Translator: | Alexander O. Smith, Elye J. Alexander |
| Language: | en |
| Publisher: | Haikasoru |
| Publication Place: | San Francisco |
| Japanese Copyright Year: | 1973 |
| English Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Notes: | Japanese title: Hyakuoku no hiru to sen'oku no yoru. |
| Abstract: | 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 greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is an epic eons in the making. Originally published in 1973, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 2001 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy, Fiction Ryu Mitsuse, Translations into English Science fiction Space opera |