The Future is Japanese

[james_davis_nicoll]

The TOC:

“Mono No Aware” by Ken Liu
“The Sound of Breaking Up” by Felicity Savage
“Chitai Heiki Koronbīn” by David Moles
“The Indifference Engine” by Project Itoh
“The Sea of Trees” by Rachel Swirsky
“Endoastronomy” by Toh EnJoe
“In Plain Sight” by Pat Cadigan
“Golden Bread” by Issui Ogawa
“One Breath, One Stroke” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Whale Meat” by Ekaterina Sedia
“Mountain People, Ocean People” by Hideyuki Kikuchi
“Goddess of Mercy” by Bruce Sterling
“Autogenic Dreaming: Interview with the Columns of Clouds” by TOBI Hirokata

Total  Male  Female  F/M    F/T
 13     8       5    .63  .38

Comments

[dsgood]

Coming later, perhaps: Anthology about the Soviet menace.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

When and where?

[ianirving.livejournal.com]

Looks like May 15 (2012) according to Amazon (CA)

http://www.amazon.ca/Future-Japanese-Stories-About-Rising/dp/1421542234/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330006122&sr=8-1

Paperback: 350 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (May 15 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421542234
ISBN-13: 978-1421542232

THanks for hands up James!

[ianirving.livejournal.com]

that would be "Thanks for the Heads Up", not a endorsement from club med :)

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I thought the future was Japanese back in 1985.

I suppose the future could always become Japanese again.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

The future is always Japanese! It's a little like Alice:

"It's always Jam tomorrow and Jam yesterday, but never Jam today."

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Maybe it means, "The Future of the United States is Japanese" -- as in our economy will remain stagnant though still powerful, there'll be a sizable underclass of NEETs and under-employed people who devote themselves to geeky pursuits online while eschewing personal contact as much as possible, and women will dress up like china dolls just for the hell of it.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

This was my thought. We were going to see mega-corps swallow boring national governments, everyone would wear mirrored sunglasses at night, and there would be automatic weapons available from street-corner vending machines. (Any similarity to specific novels or games is completely intentional.) Then again, we've got VR nearly as good as predicted already, and better connectivity.

Terminators are obsolete; the robot apocalypse will feature disturbingly chipper robot catgirls.

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

Wow, what an awesome cover.