One of those meaningless chain of connections that exist in our world

This guy is the nephew of this guy, who was born in this community, which was founded by this guy, who is the great-grandfather of this SF writer.

Nicked from the Dragon's Tales

Japanese researchers are working on a solar-sail spacecraft with 10 times the surface area of the Ikaros testbed launched toward Venus last year, after achieving all of their technical objectives with the testbed.

This spacecraft will launch on a five-year mission instead of the six-month span allotted to Ikaros.

Wait

Menchi is supposed to be a dog?

Haikasoru Reviews 8: Loups-Garous by Natsuhiko Kyogoku

What is Haikasoru?
Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.

With a small, elite list of award-winners, classics, and new work by the hottest young writers, Haikasoru is the first imprint dedicated to bringing Japanese science fiction to America and beyond. Featuring the action of anime and the thoughtfulness of the best speculative fiction, Haikasoru aims to truly be the “high castle” of science fiction and fantasy.

Added note: these are not manga but novels

Loups-Garous
by Natsuhiko Kyogoku (Trans. Anne Ishii)
Haikasoru/VIZ Media LLC
458 pages
SRP: $16.99 USA / $20.00 CAN / £10.99
ISBN 978-1-4215-3233-2



This is the book that stalled my first run on reviewing all of Haikasoru because I ran in an odd problem: I hadn't actually enjoyed reading the book that much but as I worked on the review, Loups-Garous sounded like it should have been awesome. I decided to put it aside for a few months and revisit it; this turns out to have been the right decision.

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