![]() ![]() Whatever the reason, I put my amorphous almost-prejudice aside when I heard about The Future, and I made sure to order it from that local (and independent! Support your indie bookseller!) bookstore. ![]() Maybe just because none of their stuff seems to make it to my local bookstore shelves for me to take in hand and flip through? Maybe because I just don’t like the type of “space opera. To be honest, the other stuff Haikasoru, the fiction imprint of Viz Media publishing Japanese science fiction and fantasy, hasn’t really grabbed me with its releases. (I say this as the non-Japanese author of a book set in Japan. ![]() And whenever I see stories “about” Japan, I get a little wary of the possibility of fetishization. Because although I liked the idea of a collection of short stories by Japanese speculative fiction authors, The Future is Japanese features only five Japanese authors-the “from” part of the “science fiction futures and brand new fantasies from and about Japan” in the subtitle-leaving the other eight authors in the collection to fill out the “about” part. I’m not going to lie: the reason I bought this book was to read the lone Toh EnJoe story contained in its pages. ![]()
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