Sisyphean

Dempow Torishima

Mar 2018 · Sold by VIZ Media LLC

About this eBook

A strange journey into the far future of genetic engineering, and working life. After centuries of tinkering, many human bodies only have a casual similarity to what we now know, but both work and school continue apace. Will the enigmatic sad sack known only as “the worker” survive the day? Will the young student Hanishibe get his questions about the biological future of humanity answered, or will he have to transfer to the department of theology? Will Umari and her master ever comprehend the secrets of nanodust? -- VIZ Media

Ratings and reviews

Derealizing. Really, the degree of cosmic vertigo that you experience reading this is just a once a lifetime "trip". Cannot stress enough this is unique, its the example i like to use when explaining orthogonality in intelligent species value systems or standpoints. And, not just exploration of, but fastforwarding and thinking past technoligical iusses maturation, development, i mean he really does imagine an arc of millenia, and captures the discordance and cosmic horror of that kind of scope.

About the author

Dempow Torishima was born in Osaka. He graduated from Osaka College of Art and worked as a freelance designer and illustrator. He won the Sogen SF Short Story Prize with his debut fiction “Sisyphean” (Kaikin no to) in 2011. Since then, he has been writing a series of stories in the same far-future world of Sisyphean, which was published as Sisyphean and Other Stories in 2013. The book was chosen as the best SF of 2013 in SF Magazine, won the Japan SF Award, and was nominated for the Seiun Award in 2014.