VIZ MEDIA’S HAIKASORU SCIENCE FICTION IMPRINT RELEASES TOBI HIROTAKA’S THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH
An Idyllic World Inhabited By A.I. Beings Faces Extinction From Malevolent Invaders
San Francisco, CA, May 22, 2018 – VIZ
Media’s Haikasoru science fiction imprint delivers a new literary
release with the publication of THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH on June 19th.
THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH, by TOBI Hirotaka, will be released in print with an MSRP of $16.99 U.S. / $22.99 CAN. An eBook edition will also debut on June 19th
for the Amazon Kindle, and in Apple’s iBooks Store, Barnes &
Noble’s Nook Book Store, the Kobo eBooks Store, and the Google Play
Store.
Designed
to imitate a harbor town in southern Europe, the Realm of Summer is
just one of the zones within the virtual resort known as the Costa del
Número. It has been more than a thousand years since human guests
stopped coming to the Realm, leaving the AIs alone in their endless
summer. But now all that has come to a sudden end, as an army of
mysterious Spiders begin reducing the town to nothing. As night falls,
the few remaining AIs prepare for their final, hopeless battle… War
between the virtual and the real begins in book one of the Angel of the
Ruins series.
“THE
THOUSAND YEAR beach presents an idyllic virtual world, still running
long after having been abandoned by humans, that suddenly finds itself
invaded by an impossible force,” says Nick Mamatas, Editor. “Renowned
among SF fans and critics, we invite readers to discover TOBI Hirotaka’s
first full-length novel this summer.”
Author
TOBI Hirotaka was born in 1960 and won the Sanseido SF Story Contest
while still a student at Shimane University. From 1983 to 1992 he
actively contributed short stories to Japan’s SF Magazine. After a hiatus of ten years, he returned in 2002 with his first full-length novel, THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH, which took Second Prize in SF Magazine's Best SF of 2002. In 2004, Kaleidoscape,
his collection of revised and new works, took top honors in that year's
Best SF awards in the magazine, as well as the 2005 Japan SF Award. One
of the stories from the collection, “Shapesphere,” also won the 2005 Seiun Award for Best Japanese Short Story of the Year. In 2010, “Autogenic Dreaming: Interview with the Columns of Clouds” earned TOBI his second Seiun Award for Best Japanese Short Story. The work also appeared in English in The Future Is Japanese anthology (published by VIZ Media). He won his third Seiun Award for “Sea Fingers” in 2015, which appeared in English in Saiensu Fikushon 2016.
For more information on THE THOUSAND YEAR BEACH and the Haikasoru imprint, please visit Haikasoru.com.
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