Usurper of the Sun

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VIZ Media LLC, Sep 15, 2009 - Fiction - 280 pages
Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event--someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon, the enigmatic Builders have constructed a ring around the sun, and the ecology of Earth is threatened by its immense shadow. Aki is inspired to pursue a career in science, and the truth. She must determine the purpose of the ring and the plans of its creators, as the survival of both species--humanity and the alien Builders--hangs in the balance. -- VIZ Media
 

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Contents

Prologue
May 2014
January 2018Houston USA
August 192021
January 28 2022 3000 meters above the surface of the Ring
March 11 2024 9am Act II March 11 202411am Act III March 11 20243pm Act IV March 12 2024 Chapter 2 United NationsSpace Defense Force
June 20 2024
January 122029
November 20 2037
March 4 2041
July25 2041 Threedays before rendezvous
July 31 2041 514 amGMT
July 31 2041 3 pm GMT
July31 20417 pm GMT Act III July 31 2041 8 pm GMT Act IV July 31 2041 900 pm GMT
Afterword
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About the author (2009)

Housuke Nojiri was born in Mie, Japan, in 1961. After working in instrumentation control, CAD programming, and game design, he published his first work, The Blind Spot of Veis, based on the video game Creguian, in 1992. He gained popularity with his subsequent works the Creguian series and the Rocket Girls series. In 2002, he published Usurper of the Sun (Haikasoru 2009), ushering in a new era of space science fiction in Japan. After first appearing as a series of short stories, Usurper won the Seiun Award for best Japanese science fiction novel of 2002. His other works include Pendulum of Pinieru and Fuwa-Fuwa no Izumi.

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TitleUsurper of the Sun
Usurper of the Sun
AuthorHousuke Nojiri
PublisherVIZ Media LLC, 2009
ISBN1421539888, 9781421539881
Length280 pages
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