2001 Nights, Band 2: Rendezvous

2001 Nights #2

by Yukinobu Hoshino

Dieser Manga erzählt über die Eroberung des Weltraums durch den Menschen. Zunächst (im Zeichen des Kalten Krieges) die Annäherung von Ost und West, danach Bergbau auf dem Mond, die Entsendung von Sonden in die Tiefe des Alls, die Entdeckung einer mächtigen Energiequelle und mehr.

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction

80 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1995

About the author

Yukinobu Hoshino (in Japanese, 星野之宣) is a Japanese manga artist. In 1975, after dropping out of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, he debuted with Kotetsu no Queen (鋼鉄のクイーン). In the same year, he won the Tezuka prize for an outstanding manga with Harukanaru Asa (はるかなる朝).

He is known for using the gekiga style to create detailed and serious science fiction stories based on American and European SF novels but creating a completely different storyline. He had also drawn various works based on ancient and pre-historic histories. Amongst other things, he is known for his graphic novel series, 2001 Nights (2001夜物語).

His work is acknowledged by the British Museum and was on display during 5 November 2009 to 3 January 2010.

Reviews

[Peter]

The series progresses in time and with new short stories of cosmic science fiction it improves on the first volume. The art is outstanding and the themes are original even though, at first, they seem as derivatives of 2001 a Space Odyssey.