The only thing frozen since that summer is my love for you— A giant iceberg appeared off the coast of the Miura Peninsula in the middle of summer—it was the beginning of a summer that would change our fate. Shin, Ha, and Kazuki attend high school on the Miura Peninsula. Once a close-knit group, the three have maintained an awkward relationship since an accident a year ago. One night, Shin meets a mysterious girl with no known identity on the shore where the iceberg appeared. To fulfill the girl's wish for "a fun summer vacation," Shin and his friends work tirelessly. However, as the secret of the iceberg's appearance is revealed, a force too powerful for Shin and his friends to handle closes in on the girl. Winner of the 16th Shogakukan Light Novel Award for Excellence, this is a story of love and youth that races through a "once-in-a-lifetime" summer.
Even if it’s not a human. My name is Testa. I was created as a weapon repair robot, or at least I think so. Me and my master Haru, is on this journey at the Earth, where most humanity have disappeared. For some reason, the free-spirited Haru keeps assigning me tasks like cooking, laundry, and other chores. "From today on, you’re a maid robot, Testa." What a terrible joke. Yet, I’m certain that my true purpose is to dedicate the rest of my life to my master. AIMD—Artificial Intelligence Mental Disorder, a mental illness arising from logical self-contradictions. It’s a terminal illness unique to AI. The disease is eating away my body. Life is never eternal. So, Haru, let me stay with you until the very end.
A girl that defies the laws of physics in the weightlessness of youth . . . "Ringo, you look like you've been walking on air lately." During break time, Ringo Urarakawa is so happy, she's walking on air—physically! Physics lover Issei Kikuchi, or Professor to his friends, notices Ringo's gravity-defying secret. He thinks she might actually be weightless due to her zero-gravity nature. . . and if Ringo became a pilot, it wouldn't be out of the question to set a new record in the Birdman rally competition! Professor can't compete after being injured in a traffic accident, so he and the rest of the extraordinarily unique members of the aviation club set out to recruit Ringo to become a pilot for their human-powered aircraft. Except . . . A novel about the gravity of bittersweet youth.
A visionary sci-fi road novel across a war-torn wasteland. In a distant future, the continent’s two great powers wage war along a vast border stretching from east to west. All the soldiers are robots. Amid the chaos, two such robots named Matthew and Garcia cruise the frontlines in a beat-up truck. Their job is collecting scrap. Their hobby? Broadcasting a 24-hour radio show for fellow soldier units. "This is the Far East Go West Channel, reporting from the battlefield. We’re Matthew and Garcia, enjoying our carefree road trip while shells fly and robots tear each other apart." One day, they encounter something impossible: a human girl named Mariabell, wandering a battlefield where no humans remain. Thus begins the strange journey of two robots and one girl, headed for the far western reaches she calls home.
A rising star of the sci-fi world makes a blazing debut with Gagaga! In this era, war has been replaced by a sport called Strike Fall, a team-based competition where players wear Strike Shell and race across the boundless cosmos. Yusei Takamori is one of many drawn into the frenzy. His younger brother, Hidetoshi, is a gifted prodigy whose pro debut in the top league is already secured. Watched over by their childhood friend Tamaki, Yusei sets his sights on space. “You know something? In space, everything keeps falling.” And so the brothers reached for the sky, to seize what they longed for, to grasp the universe in their own hands. It's a pulse-pounding space epic from the cutting edge of sci-fi, ready for liftoff!
His daughters from the future came back to talk to him. Wait . . . daughters, plural? Daichi is an average high schooler without anything special going for him. He finds himself unable to strike up a conversation with the girl he likes, his classmate Ai Adachi. But one day, his boring life is suddenly interrupted by the sudden appearance of a wormhole that appears in his room, and his daughter from the future comes out!? "I'm Nanairo Adachi, your daughter with the great actor Ai Adachi." What's going on!? Ignoring Daichi's confusion, Nanairo decides to spend as much time and effort as it takes to bring her future parents together. But, one day, while Daichi is walking with Nanairo in the park . . . "What are you doing with a girl that's not mama!?" Suddenly, Daichi's second daughter appears through another wormhole! Bridge the future and the present through this story of twisted love and spacetime!
Yani is a Godsinger, a special class of people who can link themselves to the AI gods that watch over her world and hear them when they speak. She loves her god, Imon, more than life. When her status as a Godsinger is threatened by a surprise arranged marriage, Yani must choose how far she's willing to go to keep hearing Imon's voice every day.
When all over Earth, chunks of reality start disappearing from existence in mysterious events known as extirpations, Dr. Ken Soma finds himself at a crossroads: should he divulge the fate of the world, or keep it to himself? His ex-wife, Dr. Irina Alexandrova, Russian expat, decides for him when she reaches the same conclusion, and publishes her findings for the world to see: within a year, the extirpations will swallow the Earth. With sinister forces at play, will Ken and his family be able to work together to unravel the mystery surrounding the extirpations before the cataclysm is at hand?