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| THE FUTURE IS JAPANESE © 2012 VIZ Media |
NEW FROM VIZ
MEDIA’S HAIKASORU IMPRINT,
A STIRRING NEW
ANTHOLOGY OF FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION AND CYBERPUNK SHOWS WHY THE FUTURE IS JAPANESE
New Literary
Release Features 13 Innovative Stories From And About Japan By An International
Collection Of Some Of Sci-Fi Fiction’s Most Acclaimed Authors
San Francisco, CA, May 16, 2012 – VIZ Media’s Haikasoru imprint
announces the release of THE FUTURE IS JAPANESE, a new fiction anthology
featuring science fiction and fantasy stories from some of today’s greatest writers
from both Japan and the English-speaking world. The book is now available from
the company’s Haikasoru imprint and has a MSRP of $14.99 U.S. / $17.99 CAN. An
eBook edition will also be available for the Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBooks
Store, the Barnes & Noble’s Nook Books Store, and the Sony Reader™ Store.
Haikasoru
publishes some of the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and
fantasy stories for English-speaking audiences, and is the first imprint based
in the U.S. dedicated to Japanese science fiction and fantasy in translation.
THE
FUTURE IS JAPANESE offers a selection of original and
classic science fiction about Japan from some of the greatest writers in the
world. Stories include a web browser that threatens to conquer the world, the
longest, loneliest railroad on Earth, a North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a
hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in breaking up
“virtual” marriages. And yes, giant robots. These thirteen stories from and
about the Land of the Rising Sun run the gamut from fantasy to cyberpunk, and
will leave readers knowing that the future is
Japanese!
“THE
FUTURE IS JAPANESE is a stirring new anthology and the first release of
original prose fiction by Haikasoru,” says Nick Mamatas, Haikasoru Editor. “Japan
is a nation long renowned for its futuristic worldview, and THE FUTURE IS
JAPANESE will engross readers with short stories by authors such as cyberpunk
legends Pat Cadigan and Bruce Sterling, New
York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente, the enormously
popular and prolific Japanese writer Hideyuki Kikuchi, and hot new writers
Rachel Swirsky, David Moles, and Ken Liu, who have all already won or been
nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards. We look forward to readers
discovering and enjoying this new collection!”
For more
information on THE FUTURE IS JAPANESE and the Haikasoru imprint, please visit
the dedicated website at www.haikasoru.com.
About VIZ Media,
LLC
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