This SF critical essay reads Sayuri Ueda's The Ocean Chronicles through the relations between ocean people and land people, bodies and communities, and bachelorhood and social systems. The prize-winning work itself was a magazine-published essay, using the novel's post-sea-level-rise world as a basis for discussing images of humanity.

A critical rereading of the vast future history of The Ocean Chronicles from the viewpoint of those who stand outside community.

This SF critical essay examines how Stanislaw Lem's Solaris was read and transmitted in Japanese. It focuses on translation, reception, and shifts in understanding, and was recognized by the Japan SF Criticism Award.

A critical essay that traces the reception of Solaris and reconsiders problems of translation and understanding.