Genre: Commentary and analysis
Length: 24,500 words
Subject Genre: Anime television series
NGE is almost certainly the most written-about, thought-about, and argued-about anime production of all time. Superficially an updated and robotized version of the Godzilla theme, this time the true monsters are more prosaic: obsession, ambition, envy, betrayal, murder, and child abuse. When the legends die–and all the lies that made them–what remains?
Genre: Commentary and analysis
Length: 16,000 words
Subject Genre: Long novel
A manuscript, an ice pick, an extra moon, and a string of murders. Agatha Christie? Franz Kafka? Maybe a bit of both, sharply spiced and stirred together with the usual Murakami flair for the incongruous and absurd. Is it about anything? Is it serious? I think the answer is yes on both counts, but unearthing the true subject takes patience and a lot of digging.
Genre: Short-short story
Length: 1050 words
As the Vietnam War rages in North America as well as Southeast Asia, a distraught mother writes a letter of lamentation and blackmail to a former friend of the family.
Genre: Fictionalized Memoir
Length: 1,730 words
A celebrity of the future interviews a celebrity of the past, present, and future. The air turns blue, the gas is shut off with a great hissing sound, and a miserable time is had by everyone. But hey, it’s all in a day’s work.
Genre: Short-short story
Length: 1,460 words
The loudest voice in a college dorm room finds something to be silent about.
Genre: Short story
Length: 2050 words
Both this story and the following story are concerned with aspects of aging, and both contain the word pennant. Beyond that, they could hardly be more different. “Ice Man” is quite urban, while “Silverlake” is unashamedly rural.
Genre: Short story
Length: 2190 words
Both this story and the precedng story are concerned with aspects of aging, and both contain the word pennant. Beyond that, they could hardly be more different. “Ice Man” is quite urban, while “Silverlake” is unashamedly rural.
Genre: Short-short story
Length: 1,600 words
Some sharp advice from a nearby twig on the evolutionary bush, along with a possible answer to that ever-burning question, Whose dream am I? Also titanium, the death and birth of the World, and various pains of old age.
Genre: Serialized novella, Part I
Length: 5,030 words
The year is 1950, the place a tiny town in Montana. Early in the morning of a beautiful day in spring, two boys set out for what should have been an ordinary, fun-filled romp. But the unexpected arrival of two strangers, and their distinctly odd behavior, awaken deeply buried realities that begin their rise to the surface.
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Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, two black holes circled one another—ever closer, ever faster—until at last they merged in a cataclysmic collision of unimaginable violence. For a fraction of a second the power radiated from this cosmic crunch exceeded by a factor of ten the combined output of all the galaxies and stars in the observable universe. Traveling at the speed of light for over a billion years, the resulting ripples in spacetime finally reached a pair of exquisitely sensitive detectors here on earth: one in Louisiana, the other in Washington state. After careful analysis, the LIGO scientific team proudly announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves a cool one hundred years after Einstein predicted them in 1916. Never before has the anniversary of a theoretical physicist’s greatest work been celebrated by fireworks of this magnitude!
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