cover image The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories

The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories

. Barricade Books, $9.94 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-942637-28-1

This collection includes work by Kobo Abe as well as some lesser-known Japanese writers.``Almost all the stories are political or social allegories and some are hardly SF by Western standards, leading a reader to wonder whether this is representative of Japanese SF or the preference of the editors,'' complained PW. (Nov.)