Title:
Tomorrow the birds
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
Portland, OR : Ablaze, 2024
©2024
Physical Description:
332 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781684972388
Abstract:
"Classic science fiction from Osamu Tezuka, the Godfather of Manga, now in English! Originally published between 1971 and 1975, this tapestry of seven-page short stories and novellas depicts an Earth where birds become the dominant class. A fatal fire in the countryside escalates into incineration of cities by swarms of pyromaniac magpies. An avian leader with psychic power demands a brutal reduction in the human population. Homo sapiens descends into a subservient role but manages to land some counterpunches. The birds' quest for equality is derailed by conflict between carnivorous species and those that eat insects." -- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
This collected edition first published in Japan in 1980.
Reads right to left.
Contents:
Uroronka domestica ignis -- Larus fuscus ignis -- Pyromaniac magpies -- Once upon a time, happily ever after -- Oberon and I -- Turdus merula sapiens (black bird) -- In Rhodesia -- Spokesman -- Doblood's rrequest to the appraisal committee -- Quail Hill -- Chropatia pitiarm -- The gospel of Pololo -- Mutant -- Falco tinnunculus molthus -- The red beak party -- Jongara the seagull -- The blue humans -- The ballad of Lap and Wilda -- The appraisal committee's motion for disciplinary measures agains Doblood -- Afterword -- Commentary on Tomorrow the Birds
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English, translated from the Japanese.
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
Mature (16 and up).
