7 Billion Needles, Volume 1
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934287873 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joshua Pambid said Totally recommend it and will be getting the second volume. I was in the mood for a body horror/scifi manga and this was suggested to me. I was a bit skeptical during the first chapter but everything after was just gravy. Totally recommend it and will be getting the second volume.. In the tradition of Hal Clement Terry Mulcahy Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 - October 29, 2003) better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. His Needle story was published in 1949 in Astounding Science Fiction magazine, and was published as a novel the following year. (amazon.com/Needle-also-published-Outer-Space/dp/0380006359/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294535335&sr=1-1) It was followed in 1978 by Through the Eye of a Needle (amazon.com/Through-Eye-Needle-Hal-Clement/dp/0345258509/ref=sr_1_. "Fantastic science fiction." according to Xyon McKell. 7 Billion Needles was an interesting read for me in several ways. I'm not familiar with the classic novel that inspired this manga, and it was recommended to me by a friend who knows my tastes very well. So I did no "research" at all and started reading knowing absolutely nothing about it.This is a character driven, imaginative, suspenseful science fiction story. I really liked watching this first volume unfold without having any preconceptions or framework. As I'd recommend trying it the same way I'm going to avoid any plot or premise disc
Hal Clement might have had a hard time seeing his story in this, but I think he would have appreciated those quiet moments, and the communications between Horizon and Hikaru."--Antick Musings. "7 Billion Needles is a suspenseful, intense book. What I enjoyed best is how skillfully Nobuaki Tadano develops Hikaru’s characterIt’s impossible to not care about anything, and by the end of this introductory volume, it’s impossible to not care for Hikaru." --MangaManiacCafe "Tadano made this science fiction story -- with its monster-movie overtones, and a jolting dose of ultraviolence -- mostly quiet and subdued, with a
Always sporting her headphones to try to close out the world around her, Hikaru is clearly a reclusive teen aged girl. And within her body resides another life-form known as Ciel, a hunter in search of an intergalactic murderer intent on wiping out humanity. Flash forward one page, and Hikaru awakes, from what seems like a horrible daydream of sorts, sitting amongst classmates in school without a scratch on her. The meteor dream seemed so real she cannot believe she's alive, but given her relative aloof nature, she soon shrugs off the events and moves on with life. However, one thing she cannot shake off is the strange buzzing she hears coming from her new pair of headphones. In 7 Billion Needles, two lives share one heart as they race to protect each other and what they most cherish.Modern day Japan is the stage for a new form of hard science-fiction, as author Nobuaki Tadano revisits one of the genre's Grand Masters, Hal Clement, in his debut work 7 Billion Needles. Loosely inspired by Clement's golden age title Needle, 7 Billion Needles follows the life of a teenage girl whose quiet boring days are dramatically changed when her body is possessed by an alien life form caught up in an intergalactic manhunt. On a clear calm night, while on a class trip to the beach, Hikaru Takabe decides to go for a walk to escape the sh
. Nobuaki Tadano made his comics debut with the short story A Headphone Wearing Girl for Media Factory's monthly sci-fi and fantasy comic anthology Comic Flapper. The short's success earned him the honor of winning Media Factory's Comic Flapper New Artist Award.7 Billion Needles i