A Buddhist space opera in which the gigantic nine-story pagoda Hosshoji travels through space to a star thirty-nine light-years away. The young space monk Shokai boards the stellar temple for a journey to Jiso-sei.

Hosshoji, a temple that flies, sets out on a voyage through space.

Ai enters a long-sealed meeting room at her university and encounters a robot vacuum cleaner that can speak. Together with the machine, driven from its home, she confronts a threat lurking around the campus in this entertaining science-fiction story.

An adventure begins with a talking robot vacuum cleaner found in a long-sealed meeting room.

A science-fiction short story built around the idea of trying to change the world itself through the framework of mystery fiction. It received the Omori Nozomi Award for bringing together the logic of solving a mystery and a changing reality.

The act of solving a mystery begins to change the world itself.

A short story by Kenji Nonaka that received the Minzo Kusaka Prize at the 9th Sogen SF Short Story Award.

Kanki ni Somare

A short story by Jinzo Takeda that received the Motoko Arai Prize at the 9th Sogen SF Short Story Award.

Adversarial Pipers, or the Last Cash Robbery