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Happy Monday!

July 11th, 2011 by nickmamatas

Good news for Kindle-owners: Rocket Girls, Rocket Girls: The Last Planet, and The Stories of Ibis are now all available on Kindle! Availability on the Apple iBookstore is coming soon as well.

Speaking of Ibis, congratulations to author Hiroshi Yamamoto for winning the Seiun Award in Japan for his novel Kyonen wa iitoshi ni narudarou (Last Year Will Be a Good Year). Haikasoru stalwart Issui Ogawa also won a Seiun this year, for his short story “Arisuma ou no aishita mamono” (King Arisuma’s beloved Demon). All right!

Tags: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Issui Ogawa, Kindle, Seiun Award
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And the hits just keep on comin’

May 18th, 2010 by nickmamatas

We had some disruptions, sure, but rest assured we are still chugging along here at Haikasoru HQ. Indeed, today is our favorite day of the month—release day! Be sure to head on down to your local bookstore (or buy here online) our two new titles!

Loups-Garous Like serial killers? Dystopian futures that seem like utopias to its residents? Teen girls? Kooky avant-garde language? Best-selling author Carrie Vaughn is a fan, calling it a “weird future…that’s scarier than the monsters.” Natsuhiko Kyogoku is one of Japan’s most popular and strangest authors—imagine Walter Mosley mixed with Mark Z. Danielewski.

Of if you like your SF the way I like my muscles—HARD—then check out The Next Continent. By the Issui Ogawa, author of The Lord of the Sands of Time, this new title is about a private mission to the moon and the adventures that await. After all, what could possibly go wrong…

Do check them out, and drop us a line to know what you think of our latest Haikasoru books!

Tags: carrie vaughn, Issui Ogawa, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Science Fiction
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To the moon!

February 11th, 2010 by nickmamatas

Our pals at io9 have a great post handicapping the likely candidates for the second country (or private entity) to put an astronaut on the moon. I was very interested because, of course, I’m currently sweating out The Next Continent by Issui Ogawa, a novel about a ten-year moon colony project.

Ogawa has picked a horse in this international space race and it’s…care to guess? Nope, not Japan, but China! The Next Continent begins with our heroes visiting a somewhat haphazardly maintained Chinese moon base after buying tickets on a Chang’e spacecraft. But then, of course…nope! The US! They open up “Liberty City”, after being inspired to rejoin the space race. (It’s not really a city though—that’s just political spin.) Well then, certainly…nope! Private enterprise, albeit a Japanese firm, they’re the ones who finally open up a lunar leisure center you’ll have to read about to believe. Be sure to check out The Next Continent this spring, if you’re looking to make any off-world travel plans in, say, 2035.

Tags: io9.com, Issui Ogawa, moon, private space exploration
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SpaceShipTwo!

December 10th, 2009 by nickmamatas

Spaceheads all over were excited over the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo this week. Virgin Galactic zillionaire Richard Branson is looking to turn space tourism into a leisure activity for the wealthy, whereas now it is simply a leisure activity for fellow zillionaires.

Perhaps because I am neck-deep in edits for The Next Continent, about a private mission to the moon funded by an leisure firm, but I’m getting excited. I don’t even like having to take the BART to work each day, and nothing is more infuriating to me than an airport layover (well, except for a canceled flight), but I want to go. I wanted to get into space as a kid, but like many such kids I just ended up working in the science fiction field instead. Three hundred people have signed up for the $200,000 space jaunt already, but I guess I’ll have to wait till SpaceShipFive or something and a price that’s the space-equivalent to those $99 super-saver flights to Florida. Space by 2020, that’s for me!

I just hope there’s no layover in the stratosphere.

Tags: Issui Ogawa, Science Fiction, THE NEXT CONTINENT
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Happy Monday!

And the hits just keep on comin’

To the moon!

SpaceShipTwo!