•Special exhibition report。
•Inquiries Into Sci-Fi Fan Clubs.
•Interview
Bizarre Sacrifice: Prefectural Police Special Information Management Office, Arisa Sakuraba
Osamu Kano
We asked Osamu Makino, who is known for his unique worldview and highly fictional style, to do an author interview. He just released “The Bizarre Sacrifice: Prefectural Police Special Information Management Office - Sakuraba Arisa” in June. This is the first project on Osaka SF that developed from the interview with Hori-sensei “Eight Views of Osaka SF - Osaka scenery that stimulates the SF imagination.”
Rental Shop Oyo's Mystery Book: The Summer Solstice Guest
Yoshiki Hiraya
This is the 99th book in the “Rental Shop Oyo” series. With the release of the latest volume, we interviewed Hiraya again. The highlight of this volume is a prostitute from Yoshiwara who comes to ask for a baby. Why does a prostitute need a baby...?
Galaxy Wind Sail (Part 1)
Kenrei Miyanishi
Miyanishi-sensei, who won the Sogen SF Short Story Award in 2013 for “Galactic Wind Sail,” is a promising writer of serious hard SF and has just released his first collection of short stories. I got a signed copy and immediately requested an interview with the author.
In this first part, based on the interview article in “Kamiushima no Techo Vol. 18,” we ask about his mother's book collection, who is a science fiction fan, and his favorite science fiction.
• Book Reviews
•Short Stories
Idea Measurement
Ao Kobayashi
In this discrete world where the future and the past, the far and the near, are intertwined, what became of our unrequited love on the world line of Minkowski space-time?
Just as positive and negative numbers in Lorentz transformations are symmetric and equally valid, when a cellular automaton universe is reverse-calculated, the infinite universe will become infinitesimal.
Yatawatari Island
Ao Kobayashi
The island of Yatawatari before it was engulfed by the tsunami is recreated in a virtual space. Seeking the illusion of my beloved, deceased sister, I begin calculating the curvature of the universe.
Secret History of Solarsystem 04
Inabakozo
Finally, humanity has overcome the religious conflict and is sending a group of pioneers to Mars. One day, a huge spaceship is about to crash into the spaceport on its way to Mars...
Androids Secretary 4
Akihiko Tendo
I fell in love with Mizuho and introduced her to my android secretary Kimiko. The two of us seemed to have accepted each other, but if I were to marry Mizuho, Kimiko's role would be gone and I would have to return her to the company, but if I did that, all of her memories would be erased...
•Sereal Stories
Welcome to the universe! Conquer the universe with a super ancient huge spaceship
Chapter 5. “The Trouble-Buster Beyond the Supercluster ”
Ep.59 The mystery of the missing galaxy.
Inabakozou
Gargantua leaps through intergalactic space. However, this leap takes twice as long as usual. It seems that the small galaxy that existed between them has disappeared. An investigation reveals that the invasion from the neighboring galaxy was so severe that it fled this space-time, and the entire galaxy seems to have become trapped inside...
•Animations Checklist
6th
Maigo@okayama
This is the fifth anime review by anime-loving old man "Mayoko@Okayama," in which he talks freely about his favorite anime, we have the following:
"Delicious in Dungeon Season 1 Ends" "Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer" "Urusei Yatsura: 1980s" "Urusei Yatsura Remake"
•The Movie Checklist
Sci-fi movies and other useless checklists
Yoichiro Sasabe
This additional movie
"PSYCHO-PASS: The Movie", "The Sun Stands Still", "Penguin Highway", "Rain Tells the Drifting Apartment Complex", "Mardock Scramble" trilogy, "Space Exploration Editorial Department", "Asteroid City"
My general movie recommendation is "Lost Care"
•Essay
Story Novel Complete Resurrection Festival
Tenmantenjinhanjotei
“Hanashi wo Novel”, a series of stories written by science fiction writers and performed by Master Tsukitei Bunto, is being revived for the first time in six years and will be streamed online, so I decided to buy the streaming version. “Gashinjo Nagaya”, originally written by Osamu Makino, is also included in the lineup!