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The Sacred Era: A Novel

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Description for The Sacred Era: A Novel Paperback. Translator(s): Posadas, Baryon Tensor. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 25. .

The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and part dream narrative. In a distant future ruled by a new Papal Court serving the Holy Empire of Igitur, a young student known only as K arrives at the capital to take The Sacred Examination, a text that will qualify him for metaphysical research service with the court. His performance earns him an assignment in the secret Planet Bosch Research Department; this in turn puts ... Read more

K’s journey to this strange world, seemingly sprung from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, is a journey into inner and outer space, as the novel traffics in mystic and metaphysical questions only to transform them into technical and astrophysical problems, translating the substance of religious and mythic texts into the language of science fiction. 

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816699865
SKU
V9780816699865
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About Aramaki Yoshio
Yoshio Aramaki was born in Otaru, Japan, in 1933. Trained as an architect, Aramaki has published widely in science fiction in Japan. One of his early novellas, “The Writing on the White Wall Shines in the Setting Sun,” won the 1972 Seiun Award, the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo. Baryon Tensor Posadas is assistant professor of Asian Languages and ... Read more

Reviews for The Sacred Era: A Novel
"A visionary science fiction novel, in which the devil lives in the details, literally, The Sacred Era is a compelling look at belief, collapse, and transcendence."—Nick Mamatas, co-editor of The Future is Japanese and Phantasm Japan "The Sacred Era is the most important work of Yoshio Aramaki, talented Japanese science fiction writer. This brilliant post-apocalyptic tale explores past and ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Sacred Era: A Novel


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