Description
In near-future Japan, Professor Katsumi races to understand a catastrophe already underway: the melting polar ice caps and the cascading disruptions they unleash. To do so, he builds a machine—an early, unsettling analogue to modern predictive intelligence—hoping it can forecast what comes next and give humanity a chance to respond. But as the system’s projections sharpen, the story turns from scientific inquiry to a tense confrontation with uncertainty, responsibility, and the limits of control. With Kobo Abe’s signature blend of speculative premise and psychological, philosophical intensity, this novel explores how societies react when survival depends not only on technology, but on the stories we choose to believe about the future.
Available Editions
paperback
London : J. Cape
Published Jan 1, 1971
228 pages
ISBN: 9780224005692
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First Published
1959
Language
eng
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