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•Special exhibition report。

Special exhibition: Taku Mayumura and Hinase - 5 years after his death, 60 years since his debut as a writer - 2

Yoichiro Sasabe

This is a report on my revisit to the “Special Exhibition: Taku Mayumura and Hinase - 5 years after his death, 60 years since his debut as a writer”, which is currently being held at the Kakoura History and Culture Museum in Hinase, Bizen City, which has undergone some changes. We will also report on a project in which we will walk together with three fans/students of the late Mayumura Sensei who have connections to the places connected to Mayumura Sensei.

•Inquiries Into Sci-Fi Fan Clubs.

•Interview

“Secret Oki Seven Songs”

Tabakari

This is an author interview with Mr. Tabakari, who won the 5th Genron SF Newcomer Award.

We were able to hear a lot about the work, which has a far-fetched setting but is surprisingly interesting, in which the retired Emperor Gotoba and an alien (who has learned Japanese poetry) compete in a poetry contest.

• Book Reviews

“Costa Concordia”

Yoichiro Sasabe

This is a book review I wrote because I wanted to say that “Costa Concordia: The Solitude of the Engineer Ship Akashi: Gaiden” may also be an homage to Mr. Card's “ Speaker of the Dead” ;P

•Short Stories

A Jewel Box 15, Android.

Ao Kobayashi

A husband who sought work in space, a wife and only son left on Earth. When a new android arrives at a family on Earth, the son seems to have a hard time adjusting to it, smiling only when his father's video message appears on the android's built-in monitor.

Ghost story engine.

Ao Kobayashi

The sound of the piano that plays in the school at night, when it is not supposed to be popular. This is a standard intro scene for ghost stories. What is the newly developed ghost story engine by the trio who created ghost stories that unfold in digital space?

Dr.Matsugaya's Time Paradox.

Inabakozo

A small time machine developed by Dr. Matsugado Seisu. The doctor used this to alter the past and attempted to record the effects on the present using a device installed in subspace, but...

•Sereal Stories

A Tentative Love Life.

8.I Cannot Select This.

Natsumi Tanaka

Even though a replacement droid for ordinary men arrived, he was unable to send him back due to his feelings for Kei, and his days continued to grow in vain as he held onto the two droids. In that case, the expensive rental fee for one person will be added every day...

Welcome to the universe! Conquer the universe with a super ancient huge spaceship

Chapter 5. “The Trouble-Buster Beyond the Supercluster ”

Ep.53 “Space Typhoon.”

Inabakozou

his shouldn't exist because we are in outer space, but this is a “super typhoon” -like phenomenon that does exist. Gargantua's party launches a mother ship equipped with an exploration boat to investigate a space typhoon they encountered in a certain galaxy.

Separately, tens of thousands of years from now, in a galaxy that intersects with the path of a space typhoon, there was a leader of a huge new religion who was trying to take measures against it...

his is a story that the author describes as a homage to “Irresponsible Captain Tyler.” I feel like it's an homage to Mr. Hoyle's “Dark Nebula” (lol)

•The Movie Checklist

Sci-fi movies and other useless checklists

Yoichiro Sasabe

•Essay

SF Pencees

Yuh Ohmura