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The sacred era : a novel /

"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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aramaki, Yoshio, 1933- (Author)
Other Authors: Posadas, Baryon Tensor, 1978- (Translator), Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955- (author of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Japanese.
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Series:Parallel futures.
Subjects:
Science fiction, Japanese.
FICTION / Science Fiction / General.
FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera.
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.