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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: sacred era
    sub title: a novel
  title info:
    title: Shinseidai. English
  name:
    name part: Aramaki, Yoshio
    name part: 1933-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Posadas, Baryon Tensor
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: translator.
  name:
    name part: Tatsumi, Takayuki
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: author of foreword.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Science fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: jpn
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 255 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: "The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and part dream narrative. In a distant future ruled by a new Papal Court serving the Holy Empire of Igitur, a young student known only as K arrives at the capital to take The Sacred Examination, a text that will qualify him for metaphysical research service with the court. His performance earns him an assignment in the secret Planet Bosch Research Department; this in turn puts him on the trail of a heretic executed many years earlier, whose headless ghost is still said to haunt the Papal Court, which carries him on an interplanetary pilgrimage across the Space Taklamakan Desert to the Planet Loulan, where time stands still, and finally to the mysterious, supposedly mythical Planet Bosch, a giant, floating plant-world that once orbited Earth but has somehow wandered 1,000 light years away. K's journey to this strange world, seemingly sprung from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, is a journey into inner and outer space, as the novel traffics in mystic and metaphysical questions only to transform them into technical and astrophysical problems, translating the substance of religious and mythic texts into the language of science fiction"--
  table of contents: Foreword: Apocrypha now! Welcome to the quintessence of Japanese speculative fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi -- The Sacred Service Examination -- Clara Hall -- The Quadrinity -- The Southern Scriptures -- Mechanical Doll -- Space Clock -- Sacred Route -- The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Chronology of Igitur's millennium of prosperity.
  note: Yoshio Aramaki ; translated by Baryon Tensor Posadas ; foreword by Takayuki Tatsumi.
  note: "The Sacred Era was first published as Shinseidai. Original Japanese edition published by Sairyu-sha, Tokyo" [2015] -- Verso title page.
  note: Translated from the Japanese.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, Japanese
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Science Fiction / General
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, Japanese
  classification: PL845.R29 S3513 2017
  classification: 895.63/5
  classification: FIC028000 FIC028030
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    title info:
      title: Sacred era
    name:
      name part: Aramaki, Yoshio, 1933- author.
    origin info:
      publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017
    identifier: (DLC) 2017016683
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  identifier: 9780816699858
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  identifier: 2016059302
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170328
    record change date: 20180105095254.0
    record identifier: in00003938686
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng