โ Scribed by Ken Asamatsu; Yasumi Kobayashi; Shinji Kajio; Masahiko Inoue; Masaki Yamada; Akira Hori; Osamu Makino; Ryo Hanmura; Sayuri Ueda; Hiroki Azuma
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The fourth book of our well-received Speculative Japan series introduces new talents from Japan, and fresh new stories by some of the outstanding authors we've introduced to the English-speaking world already. From deep in the mountains of the Japanese countryside to the plains of frigid Pluto, from a warm South Pacific isle to a freezing mountainside, to Mars or inside a lonely psyche... a positive smorgasbord of speculative enjoyment, in English for the first time!
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