Nojiri, Housuke

Usurper of the Sun

Haikasoru:
San Francisco: 2009
First English edition, Trade paperback, New,
276 pp
Cover artwork by: Katsuya Terada

The mysterious Builders have brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? 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 Builders have constructed a ring around the sun, threatening the ecology of Earth with an immense shadow. Here’s a first contact novel from a Japanese science fiction author admired by Paul Levinson.   #42146