A murderer discovers his true nature from a talking infant, a samurai is frustrated in his attempts to meditate, and a dying man bestows his hat on a friend in these surrealistic short stories. The dr
In a posthuman virtual world sealed off from the ruins of Earth, the idyll is shattered by an arachnid invasion.Designed in imitation of a harbor town in southern Europe, the Realm of Summer is just o
The political chess game between the shogunate and the empress has a new piece—a self-aware, autonomous entity named Eve.A mighty shogunate ruling the land from Tempu Castle. An imperial line of
Through the screen of his computer, a man watches a squirrel running about in a forest. For the better half of his life he has been drifting from job to job, diligently designing work-automating syste
