10 billion days & 100 billion nights

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10 billion days & 100 billion nights

Ryu Mitsuse ; translated by Alexander O. Smith and Elye J. Alexander

Haikasoru, c2011

  • : hardback

Other Title

Hyakuoku no hiru to senʾoku no yoru

Ten billion days and one hundred billion nights

百億の昼と千億の夜

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Description based on 2nd printing, 2011

Other title from t.p. verso

Summary: "Reads L to R (Western Style), for audiences A Ten billion days--that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights--that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel into the future to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is an epic eons in the making. Originally published in 1973, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 2001" -- Provided by publisher

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Ten billion days--that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights--that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel into the future to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is an epic eons in the making. Originally published in 1973, the novel was revised by the author in later years and republished in 2001.

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  • NCID
    BB17905077
  • ISBN
    • 9781421539041
  • LCCN
    2011030464
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    jpn
  • Place of Publication
    San Francisco
  • Pages/Volumes
    284 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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