Get ready for new adventures and alien worlds in the four upcoming science fiction releases from VIZ Media under the HAIKASORU imprint.

Four new novels by some of the best Sci Fi writers in Japan coming this Spring – don’t miss them!

Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.

With a small, elite list of award-winners, classics, and new work by the hottest young writers, Haikasoru is the first imprint dedicated to bringing Japanese science fiction to America and beyond. Featuring the action of anime and the thoughtfulness of the best speculative fiction, Haikasoru aims to truly be the “high castle” of science fiction and fantasy. Viz is proud to be bringing you the following books this spring;

SLUM ONLINE, THE STORIES OF IBIS will fill your April with adventure and LOUPS-GAROUS, THE NEXT CONTINENT will have all SciFi fans awaiting the beginning of May for their release.

Haikasoru publishes compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy stories.

THE STORIES OF IBIS – In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android.

SLUM ONLINE – a college freshman who simply drifts through life, but when he logs on to the combat MMO Versus Town, he becomes a karate champ on his way to becoming the most powerful martial artist around. He spends his days and nights online drifting between the virtual and the real.

LOUPS-GAROUS, THE NEXT CONTINENT- In the near future, humans communicate almost exclusively through monitors connected to online networks—face-to-face meetings are rare and the surveillance state nearly all-powerful. When a serial killer starts slaughtering students, the crackdown is harsh. There is much more to virtual reality than meets the eye.

THE NEXT CONTINENT – it’s 2025 and a firm that has built structures to survive the Antarctic and the Sahara, has received its most daunting challenge yet…a moon base fit for civilian use!

Check out VizMedia.com and haikasoru.com for more information.