SF Short Story Kessaku Se Re Ijigen Hen

[Machine Translation] Shinichi Hoshi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Kazumasa Hirai... This anthology series collects familiar short stories from early Japanese SF works that continue to exert a wide influence on everything from modern literature to light novels. This volume contains masterpieces of interdimensional science fiction set in "other worlds" and "worlds other than here," such as parallel worlds, four-dimensional worlds, and the underworld. At the end of the volume, the history of interdimensional science fiction, which can be considered the origin of the popular "reincarnation stories" and "summoning stories," as well as each author's representative works are carefully explained.

星新一、筒井康隆、平井和正...。現代文学から、ライトノベルにいたるまで、広い影響をあたえ続けている初期の日本SF作品から、親しみやすいショートショート・短篇を集めたアンソロジーシリーズ!本巻では、パラレルワールド、四次元世界、冥界など「ここではない世界」「もうひとつの世界」を舞台とした異次元SFの傑作を収録。巻末で、大人気の「転生もの」「召喚もの」の源流ともいえる異次元SFの歩みや、各著者の代表作などを丁寧に解説します。