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(4.25) | None | A selection of outstanding works of fantasy and science fiction from Japan, published here in English for the first time to reveal new and very different slices of the Japanese imagination. Following the success of the first Speculative Japan book, Volume 2 explores the visions of best-selling authors across a range of genres, from the heart-warming fantasy of Awa Naoko to the cold, lonely outer spaces of Tani Koshu. Explore the Japanese view of speculative fiction, and discover the similarities and differences that make cross-cultural literature so satisfying.… (more) |
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This is certainly true of an anthology that takes as its subject "speculative fiction," a term that, as Edward Lipsett notes in the preface to "Speculative Japan 2," "has never really been nailed down."