ONLY THE PAST CAN SAVE THE FUTURE

Sixty-two years after human life on Earth was annihilated by rampaging alien invaders, the enigmatic Messenger O is sent back in time with a mission to unite humanity of past eras--during the Second World War and ancient Japan, and even back to the dawn of the species itself--to defeat the invasion before it begins. However, in a future shredded by love and genocide, love waits for O. Will O save humanity only to doom himself?

"fabulous, borderline batty concept, with some wonderful wrinkles along the way" [including references to the poet Robert Burns]... "Now that's something we never expected to see in a Japanese SF novel." -- SFX

"After seeing humanity effectively wiped out in stream after stream, O is full of despair, but continues to try to save mankind. This determination, this self-sacrifice is one of the best part of the book. Despite O being a kind of cyborg, he is fully human in his emotions. And he's willing to do just about anything to save even one timeline for humanity. He's a terrific character to hang the story on and is the driving force behind the main story line in feudal Japan." -- SFSignal.com

"... there's a stirring speech to the troops in the penultimate act that has the same punch as Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day Speech. Yeah that's right, I just referenced The Forever War and Henry V... " -- io9.com

About the author:
Issui Ogawa is known as one of Japan's premier SF writers. His 1996 debut, First a Letter from Popular Palace, won the Shueisha JUMP Novel Grand Prix. The Next Continent (2003, Haikasoru 2010, also available on iPad) garnered the 35th Seiun Prize. A collection of his short stories won the 2005 Best SF Poll, and "The Drifting Man," included in that collection, was awarded the 37th Seiun Prize for domestic short stories. Other works include Land of Resurrection, Free Lunch Era, and The Lord of the Sands of Time (Haikasoru 2009). Ogawa is a principal member of the Space Authors Club.

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