A winner of the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest, this is an outer-space hard-SF novel set in the far future that asks what intelligence really is. A later complete edition also added the short piece “Nijiiro no Hebi”.

An intelligence-hunting space SF set around a star system at the edge of the galaxy.

A finalist in the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest; no commercial book edition could be verified.

Public information is limited.

A finalist in the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest; no confirmed book edition was found.

Very little public synopsis is available.

A finalist in the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest; no commercial book edition could be confirmed.

Public information is limited.

A finalist in the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest; no confirmed book edition could be found.

Only limited public information is available.