Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse

Even stranger, the glass was discovered buried in a stratum associated with the Upper Cretaceous. Thematically similar to Mitsuse’s epic, Komatsu’s story involves a young physicist shown an hourglass, the sand of which never stops flowing. (At the End of the Endless Stream) by Sakyo Komatsu (1966)

Longtime US SF readers may remember Ryu Mitsuse’s “The Sunset, 2217 A.D.,” which appeared in Frederik Pohl’s Best Science Fiction for 1972.

Haikasoru will be releasing this book in its first English translation in November 2011. For pure “sensawunda,” it gets no better. Clarke, covering the evolution of humanity, the lives of Plato, Christ, and the Buddha, a future technodystopia, and the very heat death of the universe itself. (Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights) by Ryu Mitsuse (1967)Īn epic, cosmic adventure in the manner of Arthur C. JAPAN ALL-TIME BEST SF 2006 by SF MagazineĬommentary by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington Since then, a few other books-such as Project Itoh’s Seiun, Japan SF, and now PKD Award Special Citation winner Harmony (2008 Hayakawa, 2010 Haikasoru)-have reached near-classic status, but the 2006 list is still as definitive as such lists can be. A hard-to-beat list, compiled by fan vote, appeared in 2006 in SF Magazine, the most important of Japan’s science fiction magazines. SFWA asked us to produce a list of the best Japanese science fiction novels. Hello from Haikasoru, an imprint dedicated to translating Japanese science fiction, fantasy, and horror into English.

Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse