Last and First Idol (Light Novel)
By (Author) Andrew Cunningham
By (author) Gengen Kusano
By (author) Samuel Pinansky
J-Novel Club
J-Novel Club
22nd August 2019
United States
Young Adult
Fiction
FIC
Winner of 27th Dark Seiun Award (Guest Division) 2017 (Japan)
Paperback
272
Width 127mm, Height 178mm
This existential widescreen yuri baroque proletariat hard sci-fi idol story has carved out a new legend in science fiction history!"Bye-bye, Earth! My idol activities here were so much fun!"4th Hayakawa SF Contest Special Prize48th Seiun Award (Japanese Short Story Division)27th Dark Seiun Award (Guest Division)16th Sense of Gender Award (Future Idol Award)Last and First Idol earned the first ever special prize in the Hayakawa SF Contest, and the first debut work to win the Seiun Award in 42 years! Also includes Evolution Girls, in which some gacha-expert friends race to find the truth of the universe, and Dark Seiyuu, a brand-new space opera about voice actors! Gengen Kusano's astounding debut collection!
Gengen Kusano is a Japanese science fiction author. This is his first published collection of stories, of which Last and First Idol won the 2017 Seiun Award for best short story. Sam Pinansky is also the owner and founder of J-Novel Club, and has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics which came in handy for this book.