From the June issue of S-F Magazine, which will be released on April 25, a new series will begin. The first chapter “Transfer Student” of the first episode “Ghost Ship” is published in the June issue. The illustrator of the door is Naoyuki Kato! Mr. Kato, whom I admired (and had been with him a little in my previous job), decorated the door.This is a permanent preservation version.
I also create some of the illustrations.
The story is in the 2300s, an era when people lived at the Lagrange point of the lunar orbit. If you know it well, it may be easy to understand if you imagine the Gundam-like era. There are no mobile suits in the work, and there are no organizations claiming to be empires. So far, there is no noticeable conflict.In this universe, there are O’Neill-type colonies where hundreds of millions of people live, space elevators, villages that dig holes in resource asteroids and live, and some people “live” on unpressurized ships. The setting of the story is a work station built to create an O’Neill-type colony.It is a small “space island” where about 5,000 people live there.
The population of 5,000 was decided from the port town of my hometown. It’s a region that I know and I’m going around somehow.A large part of the economy is supported by public works, everyone has known each other since childhood, and there are influential people who rule the market, and even in such a situation, elections are held to seek fairness. I thought I’d start a story from such an island.
The boys and girls of have no spare time to prepare for the “day of leaving the island” that will come before the age of twenty. Depending on where you go, we put in electrometabolism, vacuum exposure resistance, strengthen the skeleton, etc., and work hard to acquire academics and skills to prepare for that day.In the meantime, Utogami Mizuno, a transfer student who came from Earth, is forced to practice in the airspace on the third day of the transfer, but the classmate seems to have some suspicious plan.
“Ghost Ship” is a story of boys and girls, but continues.The people who appear here will leave the island and live on the earth, the moon, or spaceship. If possible, I would like to finish it in about five years. The amount of accumulated materials and settings has become a little unfashionable, so I make graphs with the help of AI.
Please take your time with me.
