–SAYURI UEDA
The Rounds are humans with the sex organs of both genders. Artificially created to test the limits of the human body in space, they are now a minority, despised and hunted by the terrorist group the Vessel of Life. Aboard Jupiter-I, a space station orbiting the gas giant that shares its name, the Rounds have created their own society with a radically different view of gender and of life itself. Security chief Shirosaki keeps the peace between the Rounds and the typically gendered “Monaurals,” but when a terrorist strike hits the station, the balance of power is at risk… and an entire people is targeted for genocide.
MM9
–HIROSHI YAMAMOTO
Japan is beset by natural disasters all the time: typhoons, earthquakes, and… giant monster attacks. A special anti-monster unit called the Meteorological Agency Monsterological Measures Department (MMD) has been formed to deal with natural disasters of high “monster magnitude.” The work is challenging, the public is hostile, and the monsters are hungry, but the MMD crew has science, teamwork… and a legendary secret weapon on their side. Together, they can save Japan, and the universe!
THE STORY OF IBIS
–HIROSHI YAMAMOTO
In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity’s fall. The tales that Ibis tells are science fiction stories about the events surrounding the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. At a glance, these stories do not appear to have any sort of connection, but what is the true meaning behind them? What are Ibis’s real intentions? VISIT US AT WWW.HAIKASORU.COM
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Belka, Why Don’t You Bark?
Beruka, hoenainoka? © Hideo Furukawa, 2005
Originally published in Japan by Bungei Shunju in 2005 (hardcover) and 2008 (paperback).
English translation Copyright © Michael Emmerich 2012
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Cover design by Sam Elzway
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Furukawa, Hideo, 1966–
[Beruka, hoenainoka? English]
Belka, why don’t you bark? / by Hideo Furukawa ; translated by Michael Emmerich.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-4215-4937-8
I. Emmerich, Michael. II. Title.
PL870.R85B4713 2012
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