Childhood's End is Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel about humanity's evolution and the end of individuality after the arrival of an alien species that governs Earth.

Behind rulers who bring peace, the future of the human species begins to waver.

A Thousand Novels and Backbeard is Yuya Sato's novel about the compulsion and desire to write fiction, told in an excessive voice as obsession with fiction invades reality.

Faith in fiction swallows the writer's life and self-consciousness.

Shio no Machi is Hiro Arikawa's debut novel, set in a world where a salt disaster turns people into pillars of salt. A young romance and a military struggle intersect within collapsing everyday life.

As the world sinks into salt, the wish to protect someone drives the story forward.

A Reading Club for Young People is a linked novel written as the chronicle of a reading club at an elite girls' school, following girls who live as outsiders within the school.

The reading club becomes a small kingdom where the school's outsiders protect themselves.

Humanity Has Declined is Romeo Tanaka's light novel set in a world where diminished humans coexist with fairies, using a gentle voice to deliver sharp black humor.

The cute fairies' behavior strangely reflects a declining human society.