In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn’t that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn’t work, but one of the girls–Tuan Kirie–grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet…from itself.
notes: | Winner of the 2009 Seiun Award and the 2009 Japan SF Award. |
subjects: | Nanotechnology |
genre: | Fiction |
ISBN: | 9781421536439 |
OCLC number: | 491954121 |
publisher: | Haikasoru |
publication place: | San Francisco |
japanese publication date: | 2008 |
english publication date: | 2010 |
document type: | Book |
description: | 252 p. ; 21 cm. |