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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Future is Japanese about Contributors, Pat, Cadigan with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy?
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conversations.value: Contributors include cyberpunk legends Pat Cadigan and Bruce Sterling, New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente, the enormously popular and prolific Japanese writer Hideyuki Kikuchi, and hot new writers Rachel Swirsky, David Moles, and Ken Liuwho have won or been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: The Future is Japanese
  DAVID MOLES spent six years in and around Tokyo near the end of the twentieth century. He currently lives in San Francisco.
  ISSUI OGAWA is known as one of Japan's premier SF writers. His 1996 debut, First a Letter from Popular Palace, won the Shueisha JUMP Novel Grand Prix. The Next Continent (2003, Haikasoru 2010) garnered the 35th Seiun Prize. A collection of his short stories won the 2005 Best SF Poll, and "The Drifting Man," included in that collection, was awarded the 37th Seiun Prize for domestic short stories. Other works include Land of Resurrection, Free Lunch Era, and The Lord of the Sands of Time (Haikasoru 2009) and a ten-volume epic called Tenmei no Shirube (Sign of the Heavens and the Underworld), the fifth volume of which was published in 2011. Ogawa is a principal member of the Space Authors Club.
  EKATERINA SEDIA resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen's Universe, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld, as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack, and Bewere the Night, as well as the forthcoming Bloody Fabulous and Wilful Impropriety. Visit her at www.ekaterinasedia.com.
  BRUCE STERLING is a Texan science fiction novelist who unites his time between Austin, Belgrade, and Turin. His most recent work is an introduction to a volume of Mexican fantastic short stories.
  RACHEL SWIRSKY's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and been nominated for the Hugo, the Locus, the Sturgeon, and the World Fantasy Award. In 2011, her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" won the Nebula Award. She lives in Bakersfield with a fluctuating number of cats.
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conversations.value: The Future is Japanese
  DAVID MOLES spent six years in and around Tokyo near the end of the twentieth century. He currently lives in San Francisco.
  ISSUI OGAWA is known as one of Japan's premier SF writers. His 1996 debut, First a Letter from Popular Palace, won the Shueisha JUMP Novel Grand Prix. The Next Continent (2003, Haikasoru 2010) garnered the 35th Seiun Prize. A collection of his short stories won the 2005 Best SF Poll, and "The Drifting Man," included in that collection, was awarded the 37th Seiun Prize for domestic short stories. Other works include Land of Resurrection, Free Lunch Era, and The Lord of the Sands of Time (Haikasoru 2009) and a ten-volume epic called Tenmei no Shirube (Sign of the Heavens and the Underworld), the fifth volume of which was published in 2011. Ogawa is a principal member of the Space Authors Club.
  EKATERINA SEDIA resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen's Universe, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld, as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack, and Bewere the Night, as well as the forthcoming Bloody Fabulous and Wilful Impropriety. Visit her at www.ekaterinasedia.com.
  BRUCE STERLING is a Texan science fiction novelist who unites his time between Austin, Belgrade, and Turin. His most recent work is an introduction to a volume of Mexican fantastic short stories.
  RACHEL SWIRSKY's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and been nominated for the Hugo, the Locus, the Sturgeon, and the World Fantasy Award. In 2011, her novella "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" won the Nebula Award.
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conversations.value: More than thirty years ago a hyper-dimensional passageway suddenly appeared... the first stage of an attempted invasion by an enigmatic alien host. Humanity managed to push the invaders back through the passageway to the strange planet nicknamed "Faery." Now, Second Lieutenant Rei Fukai carries out his missions in the skies over Faery. His only constant companion in this lonely task is his fighter plane, the sentient FFR-31 Super Sylph, call sign: YUKIKAZE.
  The alien JAM have been at war with humanity for over thirty years... or have they? Rei Fukai of the FAF's Special Air Force and his intelligent tactical reconnaissance fighter plane Yukikaze have seen endless battles, but after declaring "Humans are unnecessary now," and forcibly ejecting Fukai, Yukikaze is on its own. Is the target of the JAM's hostility really Earth's machines?
  In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through online networks—face-to-face meetings are rare and the surveillance state nearly all-powerful. So when a serial killer starts slaughtering junior high students, the crackdown is harsh. The killer's latest victim turns out to have been in contact with three young girls: Mio Tsuzuki, a certified prodigy; Hazuki Makino, a quiet but opinionated classmate; and Ayumi Kono, her best friend. And as the girls get caught up in trying to find the killer—who just might be a werewolf—Hazuki learns that there is much more to their monitored communications than meets the eye.
  Young Wataru flees his messed-up life to navigate the magical world of Vision, a land filled with creatures both fierce and friendly. His ultimate destination is the Tower of Destiny where a goddess of fate awaits. Only when he has finished his journey and collected five elusive gemstones will he possess the Demon's Bane—the key that will grant him his most heartfelt wish... the wish to bring his family back together again!
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conversations.value: In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The tales that Ibis tells are science fiction stories about the events surrounding the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. At a glance, these stories do not appear to have any sort of connection, but what is the true meaning behind them? What are Ibis's real intentions?