He’s won 2 Seiun Awards for his works the 35th Award for The Sixth Continent and the 37th for a collection of short stories.In an alternative totalitarian Japan, junior high school students are sent to an island and forced to slay one another for the glory of the regime. Issui Ogawa is one of the most acclaimed science fiction authors in Japan and is a member of the Space Authors Club. His interactions with humans over the various time periods he visits have not always been the best, yet he continues to fight for us. Orville spends much of his time thinking about how he can be loyal to the humans, and just what it means to be human. With a little bit of meddling, Orville helps Miyo’s people learn about new weaponry with which they can kill the enemy (referred to as mononoke throughout the book, a term for demons in Japanese).Īnother great story from one of Japan’s best science fiction authors, Lord of the Sands of Time was a wonderful look into AI/human relations and human/human relationships and the idealism of humanity. She is Miyo, Shaman Queen of Wa, a young leader who has never truly led her people before, but finds the strength within herself to do so.
When Orville arrives in 248 BC Japan, he finds a leader who will heed his instruction and lead forces against the intruders. His relationship with a human is what fuels him as he leaps across time, hoping that he can at least save her ancestors and save the possibility that in one time stream she might at least survive. He is one of many Messengers who will travel across the time streams in hopes that he can help humanity survive and remain on Earth. In the future, we create AI with bodies similar to our own and send them back in time in hopes of stopping the alien invasion before it spreads and destroys us all. In the future, mankind no longer lives on Earth.
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