Kotetsu Beni Onna / Original Title: IRON WIDOW (Hayakawa Bunko SF 2408)

[Machine Translation] Noriten, a frontier girl in Huaxia, joins the Human Liberation Army to fight against an alien mechanical creature, Hunnan. She boards a giant battle machine, the Ling Chrysalis Machine, and fights against the Huldan that is trying to annihilate the human race. The Reichswehr is ridden by a male-female pair and controlled by "Ki" (energy), but many of the girls in the pair die from the mental pressure. For the sake of a secret plan, Noriten volunteers to be a pilot and throws himself into a grueling battle... In a world created from ancient Chinese history, giant mecha run the battlefield. A masterpiece of action science fiction that won the British Science Fiction Society Award.

華夏の辺境の娘、則天は、異星の機械生物・渾沌と戦う人類解放軍に入隊する。巨大戦闘機械・霊蛹機に搭乗し、人類を滅亡させんとする渾沌と戦うのだ。霊蛹機は男女一組で乗り、“気”で操るが、ペアの女子は多くが精神的重圧から死ぬ。ある密計のため、則天はあえてパイロットに志願し、過酷な戦いに身を投じるが...。中国古代史から創造された世界で、巨大メカが戦場を駆ける。英国SF協会賞受賞の傑作アクションSF。