Media release — VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest supplier as well as licensor of anime as well as manga in North America, has revealed the availability of the acclaimed novel, ten BILLION DAYS as well as ONE HUNDRED BILLION NIGHTS, by author Ryu Mitsuse. The hardcover book is published by the company’s Haikasoru imprint as well as brings an MSRP of $25.99 U.S. / $29.99 CAN. The eBook edition is likewise offered on the Amazon Kindle, the Nook, as well as Apple’s iBooks store for $9.99.
Haikasoru publishes a few of the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction as well as fantasy stories for English-speaking audiences, as well as is the very first imprint based in the U.S. devoted to Japanese science fiction as well as fantasy in translation.

In ten BILLION DAYS as well as ONE HUNDRED BILLION NIGHTS, the philosopher Plato, in his exploration of the ruins of the fabled city of Atlantis, travels with time as well as area to identify the trick history of the human race, encountering Christ, the Buddha, as well as other renowned religious figures on the way. This celebrated book of viewpoint as well as the future has been named the biggest Japanese science fiction book of all time.

“TEN BILLION DAYS as well as ONE HUNDRED BILLION nights won the title of the biggest Japanese science fiction title ever written in a 2006 poll by science Fiction magazine,” states Nick Mamatas, Haikasoru’s Editor. “The novel, which includes a striking glow-in-the-dark dust jacket, delivers a cosmic experience in the style of Arthur C. Clarke, covering the development of humanity, the lives of a few of history’s many renowned religious figures, a future techno-dystopia, as well as the extremely death of the world itself. originally published in 1967, author Ryu Mitsuse revised the book in later years as well as republished it in 1973. We’re really honored to lastly release this masterpiece to North American readers.”

Born in Tokyo in 1928, Ryu Mitsuse graduated from Tokyo university of education with a degree in the sciences, after which he took up the research study of philosophy. He debuted with “Sunny Sea 1979” in 1962, as well as his work—which commonly combines Eastern viewpoint as well as difficult science fiction—includes Tasogare ni kaeru (Returns in the Twilight) as well as Ushinawareta toshi no kiroku (The Chronicle of a lost City). Mitsuse made SF history when his short story “The Sunset, 2217 A.D.” was equated into English for inclusion in finest science Fiction for 1972. With artist Keiko Takemiya, he produced the manga Andromeda Stories. Ryu Mitsuse died in 1999.

For much more info on ten BILLION DAYS as well as ONE HUNDRED BILLION nights as well as the Haikasoru imprint, please see www.haikasoru.com.

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