Japanese Sci Fi

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Jane is a naughty, dirty nurse who works for a plastic surgery clinic in Los Angeles. One day she and her friend Roxy witness a tentacle monster mutant manhandling a lady at the beach, an event which inspires a massive group session where everyone joins in for some exhibition. Later, Jane heads to work and tends to a paranormal patient. Only her patient is no normal man. He has something ...

At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.

A lone ronin. A corporate daimyo. A ghost in the machine that will force them to kill each other… or save their city. In the neon-drenched dystopia of Neo-Kyoto, where corporate spires pierce polluted skies, justice is a forgotten word. For Malique, a half-Black, half-Japanese ronin haunted by the ghosts of his past, there is only the code. Cybernetically-enhanced and fueled by a relentless quest for vengeance, he stalks the rain-slicked Undercity with a single target in his sights: Merrik Yoritomo. Merrik is the scion of the ruthless megacorporation that destroyed Malique’s family, a ...

Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing of their heads, or exposure to sunlight. By the year AD 12,090, vampires have ruled the Earth for almost 300 years, and it is only these weaknesses that have kept these foul monsters from totally overrunning the world. But what happens when those rules no longer apply?

One of the first recorded alien visitor stories, from Japan in around 900 AD. Taken from the translation by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Includes a very early version of an interplanetary society. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japanese: 竹取物語, Hepburn: Taketori Monogatari) is a monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore. Written by an unknown author in the late 9th or early 10th century during the Heian period, it is considered the oldest surviving work in the monogatari form.

The stage is the surveillance society of near-future Tokyo. In order to become an idol, Rei has sacrificed her private life as she focuses on her solo activities. Haunted by guilt, the insidious manipulations of a controlling talent manager, and the corporate bioapps colonizing her body, Rei must find a way to reclaim her discarded anonymity and autonomy within a cyberpunk society where Vocaloids and V-singers flourish.

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。

わたし(比呂)の話は続く。長女の斐名子が、蓼科に出かけている折りに、喜多川家の前のお手伝いのマリーさんがたずねてきたこと。その日、妹の珠江、マリーさんと三人で花火大会に出かけたこと。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。従叔母さんの牧子様から、借用書がすべて偽物であったこと、英田恵里衣の入れ知恵で行ったと告白されたわたしは、英田氏の事務所に出向きます。

わたし(比呂)の話は続きます。

鎌倉は七里ガ浜に散歩に出かけた帰り、海岸づたいの富士山の見える遊歩道の木陰のベンチに休みながら、その日もわたし(比呂)は、喜多川家で見聞した話を先生に語った。

鎌倉を去る前に、一人、江ノ電ににのって"長谷"まで出かけたわたしは、通りで景月院(拝崎夫人の墓のある寺)で見習いとして働いている娘と出会います。

比呂は自ら提案して、京都のお屋敷で見聞したことを、拝崎氏に語って聞かせることを日課とする。

遠野比呂は、単身、出向いた東京の地下街で、作家、拝崎薫と出会う。

わたし(比呂)は、筝の師匠、倉田慶介との仲を引き裂いたと誤解され、斐名子より解雇を申し渡される。

神谷海塔氏より、拝崎希美夫人の悲しい過去を告白されたわたしは、ある疑問を抱いて、拝崎夫妻のかつての住まいである鎌倉山の邸宅に出向きます。そこで、夫人の悲しい過去にまつわるさらなる事実が判明します。

先生と、仮粧坂(けわいざか)切通し(きりどおし)に出かけ、たどりついたのは、景(けい)月院(げついん)という尼寺でした。そこで神谷(かみや)保(ほう)月(げつ)という尼様を紹介されます。

先生とこれ以上、関係が深まることを恐れたわたし(比呂)は、話の続きをノートに書いて、先生に渡すこととします。

美(メイ)友(ユウ)は炭鉱勤めの父、偉(ウェイ)を小学生の頃に失くしていた。婚約者のいる美(メイ)友(ユウ)は、亡くなった父のことを思い、結婚することにためらいがあった。

王(ウァン)と黄美(ファンメイ)友(ユウ)の間を取り持つべく、梨恵は三人で昔馴染みの串カツ屋へと出向く。