Yuba Isukari – författare

YOKOHAMA STATION HAS SWALLOWED 99% OF MAINLAND JAPAN Two hundred years ago, Yokohama Station, which had been under constant construction, developed the ability to self-propagate. Now with nearly all Honshu, the mainisland of Japan, consumed by the growing station, the population has been split into two groups: those who live inside the sprawl with fare cards embedded in their brains and the few who persist on the remaining scraps of untouched land. Hiroto has lived his whole life on the outside, but when an exile from the station entrusts him with a mission and a ticket, he ventures into the ominous belly of the beast for the first time…

TALES FROM INSIDE Welcome to Yokohama Station, a sprawling structure that has consumed most of Japan. This collection of short stories dives into more about the station and the people that live within and around it. An android’s chance encounter with a man on an island reveals the origin of the rebellious Dodger Alliance. Meanwhile, two other androids go missing, and a third is dispatched to locate them, but do they want to be found? In Kumamoto, a mysterious death grips JR operatives who work to keep Yokohama Station from spreading. Lastly, a volcano threatens to erupt in Gunma, displacing hundreds of Insiders. How will the station react to this unprecedented danger?

Hiroto’s journey through the depths of Yokohama Station has led him to Keiha Nijo, leader of the once-great Dodger Alliance, whose technology allows her to obscure her location and evade the station’s robotic guards. The Winter War, tactical AIs, and dormant machine minds…Will her whispered stories at l ast reveal the secrets of the station? Meanwhile, engineer Toshiru Kubo steals a gun and deserts JR Fukuoka, where artillery shells explode against the growing concrete in a desperate battle versus the station. What will he find in nearly abandoned Shikoku? Nothing less than anarchy on an island conceded to the inexorable station that will soon consume it, and rumors of a ghost at the power station…

YOKOHAMA STATION HAS SWALLOWED 99% OF MAINLAND JAPAN With help from Keiha Nijo of the Dodger Alliance, Hiroto has followed the Professor’s whispered int imat ions to Exit 42 in the mountainous interior of Yokohama Stat ion. There, in the heart of the beast, an ancient monitor flickers to life, and an image of the Professor in his youth, a haunting digital simulacrum, awakens from its slumber. And just nearby, there is a button—one that, when pressed, could end the Yokohama Station Hiroto has always relied on and has now come to know. Would activating it mean overthrowing a tyrant, or would it mean extinguishing the life-giving sun? In this final volume, turnstiles crawl the hallways, electric guns pierce the station’s hum, and secrets are revealed…