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Fujiko F. Fujio: Shônen SF Tanpenshû vol. 2
Again, a collection of six short stories. Again, some of these are typical (tomorrow's news paper; vampirism as a virus), but New-year-sei chôsa (Exploration of Planet New-Year) is pretty damn cool SF. A scientist makes the hypothesis that all the civilizations in the Milkey Way galaxy originated on one particular planet, and takes off to prove it. It seems like he succeeded, or ...?
In general these short stories end too much for me, though. There is a clear theme which is resolved clearly at the end, typically with the narrator going "This was the weirdest thing that ever happened to me, and it never happened afterwards, and I learned this and that of it, bla bla," which is ... annoying. I don't know why. A bit too moral for me, perhaps. In that way I enjoyed Fujiko's Ishoku tanpenshû (collection of "unique/unusual" short stories) better, as they tended to be slightly more absurd and had more open endings.
Category: Shonen/seinen | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM