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The sacred era a novel / Aramaki Yoshio ; translated by Baryon Tensor Posadas ; foreword by Takayuki Tatsumi.

Author/creator	Aramaki, Yoshio, 1933-
Other author	Posadas, Baryon Tensor, 1978-
Other author	Tatsumi, Takayuki, 1955-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Description	1 online resource.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects	Science fiction, Japanese

Uniform title	Shinseidai. English
Series	Parallel futures
Contents	Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Foreword -- Takayuki Tatsumi -- The Sacred Era -- The Sacred Service Examination -- Clara Hall -- The Quadrinity -- The Southern Scriptures -- Mechanical Doll -- Space Clock -- Sacred Route -- The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Chronology.
Abstract	"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 him on the trail of a heretic executed many years earlier, whose headless ghost is still said to haunt the Papal Court, which carries him on an interplanetary pilgrimage across the Space Taklamakan Desert to the Planet Loulan, where time stands still, and finally to the mysterious, supposedly mythical Planet Bosch, a giant, floating plant-world that once orbited Earth but has somehow wandered 1,000 light years away. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
General note	"The Sacred Era was first published as Shinseidai. Original Japanese edition published by Sairyu-sha, Tokyo" [2015] -- Verso title page.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Issued in other form	Print version: Aramaki, Yoshio, 1933- author. Sacred era Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017 9780816699858
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017016683
ISBN	9781452954851 (ebook)

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