Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights: Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights (Hardcover)

from stretch

If our universe is defined by the limits of time since the Big Bang, then what lies beyond that boundary? To try to answer that question Mitsuse has mixed hard science fiction, heavy on cosmology, and the three of humanities great philosophical traditions. And by mixing, I mean pitting against on...

from PhoenixTerran

Ryū Mitsuse's Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights is considered to be one of the greatest Japanese science fiction novels to have ever been written. As a lover of both science fiction and Japanese literature, I knew I wanted to read it without any hesitation. I was thrilled when Haika...

from Shrike58

File this under classic novels that might have just passed their sell-by date, as Ryu Mitsuse is mostly dealing with the place of passion and the hunt for meaning in the face of an indifferent Universe. To put it another way, when it's explained that Mitsuse has Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and...

from jovemako

I thought this was great! It took me much longer than I thought it would to read. However, I found out that was only because of the amount of thought it took to truely understand the story. (which is not a bad thing. I'd rather read a book I have to think about than one that's too simple.) I foun...

from jovemako

I thought this was great! It took me much longer than I thought it would to read. However, I found out that was only because of the amount of thought it took to truely understand the story. (which is not a bad thing. I'd rather read a book I have to think about than one that's too simple.) I foun...