Yohane Su Bull Gu No Tenshi Tachi (Haya Kawa Bunko JA 1200)

[Machine Translation] In the title story, orphans Steve and Cheryl try to capture DX9, a Japanese hobby robot that has been falling for years at an abandoned endurance test site. The title story depicts a boy and a girl struggling to survive at the edge of Africa, where a civil war continues in the midst of a quagmire. The second collection of short stories, which won a special prize at the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize and was nominated for the Naoki Prize following his debut novel, "Night on the Battlefield," is now available in paperback.

戦災孤児のスティーブとシェリルは、見捨てられた耐久試験場で何年も落下を続ける日本製ホビーロボット・DX9の捕獲に挑むが―泥沼の内戦が続くアフリカの果てで懸命に生きる少年少女を描いた表題作、9・11テロの悪夢が甦る「ロワーサイドの幽霊たち」など、日本製の玩具人形を媒介に人間の業と本質に迫る連作5篇。デビュー作『盤上の夜』に続く直木賞候補作にして、日本SF大賞特別賞に輝く第2短篇集、文庫化。