The novelist Kera is refused assistance from Warkam, an all-purpose writing-support machine, because his prose may destabilize language itself. Centered on Kera and including nine linked stories such as "Kibun," "Botsubun," and "Saibaibun," the collection imagines worlds in which words reshape reality and human perception.

When language unsettles the contours of the world, how much of one's reality can one still trust?

A critical history of the magazines, editors, illustrators, and fans who shaped the early years of American science fiction. With abundant illustrations, Masahiro Noda shows how the imagination of the pulp era formed SF culture.

An illustrated guide to the roots of American SF, tracing the people who dreamed of the future.