Starship & Haiku: The Award-winning Post-Apocalypse Science Fiction Classic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940999067)

S.P. Somtow's first novel, Starship & Haiku, was awarded the Locus Award and caused a sensation in 1981 with its extraordinary Asian-skewed view of the post nuclear apocalypse. In this novel, only Japan has survived a world-wide holocaust, and Japan's culture has turned inward, exalting its past and its aesthetic of suicide. In this grim world, a young girl makes contact with a renegade member of an alien race ... the whales. Together, they plan a new future for the world's intelligent life. Part savage satire, part poetic evocation of a manga-like universe, S.P. Somtow's novel was the inspiration for Kathy Mar's award-winning song "Starship and Haiku."

Author: S. P. Somtow
ISBN-10: 1940999065
ISBN-13: 9781940999067
Publisher: Diplodocus Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d