Issui Ogawa’s vast science-fiction series in ten volumes and seventeen books. Across a long timeline, it connects the far future, infectious disease, alien intelligence, and social systems into a story on the scale of human history.

A vast SF saga that portrays humanity’s future and transformation over a long span of time.

A science-fiction novel set on a planet inhabited by strange beings that once destroyed humanity. Exiled Magandara becomes entangled in a plot that could shake the planet’s fate.

A world of alien forms and language begins to tell of a planetary crisis.

A twelve-volume annual anthology series in Sogen SF Bunko, edited by Nozomi Omori and Sanzo Kusaka. It selected Japanese short SF from each year and documented the contemporary field with overviews and commentary.

Yearly short fiction forms a contemporary history of Japanese SF.

Annual Best Japanese SF was an annual anthology series edited by Nozomi Omori and Sanzo Kusaka. Through selected stories, yearly overviews, and recommendation lists, it documented contemporary Japanese science fiction and connected writers with readers.

Beyond the individual stories, the series mapped more than a decade of change in Japanese science fiction.