![]() ![]() ![]() The Sea of Fertility sequence (1964-1970 Shinchō), which takes its name from the Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, is similarly readable as either delusion or genre fiction. A second group self-identifies as agents who must initiate a global nuclear World War Three as a signal to off-world observers. Utsukushii Hoshi (October 1962 Shinchō 1967 trans 2022 as Beautiful Star) draws on the Paranoia typified by Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956), with protagonists convinced that they are undercover Aliens, assigned to protect the Earth. A recurring though inexplicit subtext in his fiction implies that Japan was destined for Holocaust in World War Two, and that book, writer and reader co-exist in an abnormal Parallel World. Mishima's domestic output alternated between highbrow literary works and bill-paying potboilers, but only the former have been translated into English the bulk of his work is non-sf, but as the sales of his literary works declined in the early 1960s, Mishima placed greater emphasis on genre forms (see Equipoise). Pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925-1970), a controversial Japanese author, playwright and sometime actor. ![]()
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