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Haikasoru 6: Harmony by Project Itoh (Trans. Alexander O. Smith)

Harmony

By Project Itoh  (Translated by Alexander O. Smith)

28 May, 2011

Haikasoru

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Harmony

Project Itoh (Trans. Alexander O. Smith)

Haikasoru/VIZ Media LLC

252 pages

$14.99/$19.99/9.99 UK

ISBN 9781421536439

July 2010

Science Fiction

If I thought that more than half a dozen of you would get the reference, I’d say this reads like Peter Watts flipped through a copy of Caduceus Wild and thought to himself ​“I can do this a lot better. And I could make it a lot more depressing.“1 So instead let’s say that Watts and Greg Egan decided to collaborate on a medical dystopia/thriller.

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Haikasoru 5: Dragon Sword and Wind Child/Tales of the Magatama, Book I by Noriko Ogiwara (Trans. Cathy Hirano)

Dragon Sword and Wind Child  (Tales of the Magatama, book 1)

By Noriko Ogiwara  (Translated by Cathy Hirano)

16 May, 2011

Haikasoru

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Dragon Sword and Wind Child/Tales of the Magatama, Book I

Noriko Ogiwara (Trans. Cathy Hirano)

VIZ/Haikasoru

$13.99 USA / $18.99 CAN / £8.99

352 pages

ISBN: 978−1−4215−3763−4

I don’t know why but recently I’ve been encountering fantasies where the existence of marriage counselling services would have avoided a lot of bloodshed and misery all round.

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