Osen / Hara Taitezu Ki: HARDFOUGHT Gentaitoru HEADS

[Machine Translation] In the far future, humans, whose appearance and social system have been completely transformed, are engaged in an endless battle against the Sennexi, an alien race with an ancient history. On board the cruiser "Contradiction", a cruise ship that cruises around the primitive star cluster, Proofrax, a young girl who has been taught only to eliminate her enemies, is thinking about her upcoming first battle.... The Nebula Award-winning "Massacre" depicts the battle between humans and aliens on an overwhelmingly large scale and with beautiful visions. In the near future, there is a moon colony with a population of 2 million. In the "ice cave," a scientific facility that utilizes a natural cave, an experiment is underway to achieve absolute zero. A new project is underway to create a large database of 410 human heads that have been frozen and stored for over 100 years, brought in from Earth. This volume includes the Nebula Award-winning "Frozen Moon," which depicts a spectacular and shocking experiment on the lunar world, and two representative middle stories of hard science fiction, the quintessential work of Bear, who passed away in November, 2022.

はるか未来、容姿も社会体制も変貌しきった人類は、古い歴史をもつ異星種族セネクシと果てしない戦いを続けていた。原始星群をめぐる巡航艦“混淆”で、敵の抹殺だけを教えられて育った少女プルーフラックスはきたる初陣に思いを馳せていたが...。圧倒的なスケールと美しいヴィジョンで人類と異星人との戦いを描いたネビュラ賞受賞作「鏖戦」。近未来、200万の人口を擁する月コロニー。そこにある天然の洞穴を利用した科学施設“氷穴”では、絶対零度達成の実験が進行中だった。ここに、100年以上ものあいだ冷凍保存されていた人間の頭部410個を地球から持ち込み、一大データベース化しようとする新たなプロジェクトが動き出す。月世界での壮絶かつ衝撃的な実験を描いた星雲賞受賞作「凍月」。2022年11月に逝去したベアの真骨頂たる、ハードSFの代表中篇2篇を収録した一冊。