Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams - Christopher Bolton

Since the end of the Second World War - and particularly over the last decade - Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual - from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s - while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime.

Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288