Innocence novel by Masaki Yamada
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Innocence novel by Masaki Yamada
After the Long Goodbye by Masaki Yamada. Set just before the action in Innocence. Who's read it, and what did you think?
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I have read most of it and it is a good novel, the novel is written like the reader is Batou, you read about what is happening in his cyberbrain, the problems with having a cyberbrain compared to a human brain.
A space port is featured in the novel to take space shuttles to space stations, I was wondering, does space travel to the moon or space stations exist in Shirow's Ghost in the Shell universe?
A space port is featured in the novel to take space shuttles to space stations, I was wondering, does space travel to the moon or space stations exist in Shirow's Ghost in the Shell universe?
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Motoko2030 wrote: A space port is featured in the novel to take space shuttles to space stations, I was wondering, does space travel to the moon or space stations exist in Shirow's Ghost in the Shell universe?
In the Man-Machine Interface there's a space station with implication that they're quite numerous and in the end Motoko announces that she's going to space, so at least rich civilians seem to have the chance of space travel.
I guess that I'll have to buy the novel, even though Oshii's continuum is my least favourite of the three...It's still good enough. By the way, who is the author?
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Masaki Yamada. I'm not a huge fan of Oshii's continum either. I mean, I love the first movie. But I'm not buying the second until the dubbed version comes out. However I will be buying this book sinces its a sequal to the first movie which takes place before Innocence.By the way, who is the author?
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Here is a brief summary of what the novel is about
The hulking cyborg counterterrorist Batou doesn't have a family; his electronic brain never dreams. So why has he dreamt the other night, and dreamt that he has a son? It is 2032, and Batou, veteran of a hundred urban black ops in Public Security Section 9, lives deadly and miserable between the corner shops where he haggles with holograms over dog food, and the towering rubble of skyscrapers above, gutted in suicide bombings and never rebuilt. Once Batou had a human love for his partner, the legendary Major Kusanagi, before he witnessed her transfiguration into something far beyond humanity. Now he has only his job and his beloved Basset hound, Gabriel - but when Batou experiences a brief virtual death in an arranged car accident, he returns home to find Gabriel has gone missing - missing, perhaps, to go look for his owner's lost soul. The desperate and increasingly delusional cop fears his poor dog has made a horrible mistake out of innocence, for Batou has taken a cold crystalline look inside himself and decided that he never truly had one..
The hulking cyborg counterterrorist Batou doesn't have a family; his electronic brain never dreams. So why has he dreamt the other night, and dreamt that he has a son? It is 2032, and Batou, veteran of a hundred urban black ops in Public Security Section 9, lives deadly and miserable between the corner shops where he haggles with holograms over dog food, and the towering rubble of skyscrapers above, gutted in suicide bombings and never rebuilt. Once Batou had a human love for his partner, the legendary Major Kusanagi, before he witnessed her transfiguration into something far beyond humanity. Now he has only his job and his beloved Basset hound, Gabriel - but when Batou experiences a brief virtual death in an arranged car accident, he returns home to find Gabriel has gone missing - missing, perhaps, to go look for his owner's lost soul. The desperate and increasingly delusional cop fears his poor dog has made a horrible mistake out of innocence, for Batou has taken a cold crystalline look inside himself and decided that he never truly had one..
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