Including the title story, which won the 8th Sogen SF Short Story Award, T“The Seventy Four Melody And Solitude.” was a finalist for the 42nd Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize, but narrowly missed out on the grand prize. We interviewed its author, Mikihiko Hisanaga, about the origin of his creation, the story that he actually wanted to be a manga artist, and also his cat's sweet...

What kind of people are the writers who contribute to Anima Solaris? This is the second installment of a new project to answer the question. This issue also includes “A Juwel Box 4, Time Paradox” in which we ask about the factors that led them to contribute to Anima Solaris in the first place, as well as the origin of their interest in science fiction.

Hiroki Kobayashi has contributed over 30 works to this issue.

A son from the future visits a grieving young man who has no place in this world. This is a story about their mutual feelings and the result of those feelings.

Gargantua, leaping through intergalactic space, found one of a series of giant space exploration vessels that were near the Frontier in their early days, smashed into a planet! The super galaxy cluster drive system being developed by that giant exploration vessel, named Tristan, will lead to further developments...