Beyond the curve
By: Kobo Abe
Contributors: Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Shiro Tsujimura (cover art)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Kodansha International; Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha America
Published: April 1991
Place of publication: Tokyo; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9784770014658
Subjects: Abe, Kōbō, 1924-  -- Translations into English; Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Notes: Collection of literary sf, the first collection of Abe’s short fiction, translated from the Japanese (Kābu no mukō) by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
Table of contents: title: An irrelevant death; title: The crime of S. Karma; title: Dendrocacalia; title: The life of a poet; title: Record of a transformation; title: Intruders; title: Noah's ark; title: The special envoy; title: Beguiled; title: The bet; title: The dream soldier; title: Beyond the curve.