Set in the South Seas of a future where the afterlife has been denied, the novel follows cultural anthropologist Ilias Novak as he is drawn into an investigation surrounding the legend of Nirya Island. It is a science-fiction novel where religion, recording technology, and communal memory intersect around ideas of life and death.

In a future that has lost the afterlife, the legend of Nirya Island begins to wobble in the South Seas.

Set in a Japan divided into east and west after Sekigahara, the novel follows the intersecting fates of Kotaro Takenaka, a medical student living in Kyoto, and Yukinari Sanada, a military officer on the imperial side. It is a sweeping steampunk adventure in which science and sorcery collide.

A late-Edo steampunk tale of a divided nation where science and sorcery clash.

Recorded as a final nominee for the second Hayakawa SF Contest. No book-length edition could be confirmed and public information is limited, so it is currently treated primarily as a contest nominee.

One of the final nominees for the second Hayakawa SF Contest.

Recorded as a final nominee for the second Hayakawa SF Contest. No book-length edition could be confirmed and public information is limited, so it is currently treated primarily as a contest nominee.

One of the final nominees for the second Hayakawa SF Contest.

Recorded as a final nominee for the second Hayakawa SF Contest. No book-length edition could be confirmed and public information is limited, so it is currently treated primarily as a contest nominee.

One of the final nominees for the second Hayakawa SF Contest.