空の中[Sora No Naka]

自衛隊三部作 #2

by Hiro Arikawa, 有川 浩

200X年、謎の航空機事故が相次ぎ、メーカーの担当者と生き残った自衛隊パイロットは調査のために高空へ飛んだ。

高度2万、事故に共通するその空域で彼らが見つけた秘密とは?
一方地上では、子供たちが海辺で不思議な生物を拾う。
大人と子供が見つけた2つの秘密が出会うとき、日本に、人類に降りかかる前代未聞の奇妙な危機とは―すべての本読みが胸躍らせる、未曾有のスペクタクルエンタテインメント。

Genres: Science Fiction

537 pages, Paperback Bunko

First published October 30, 2004

About the author

Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taishō for that year, competing against ordinary novels.

She often writes about the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and her first three novels concerning its three branches are known as the Jieitai Sanbusaku (The SDF Trilogy); she also wrote about the fictional Library Forces in the Toshokan Sensō series. Raintree no Kuni, which first appeared as a book within a book in Toshokan Nairan was later published by Arikawa as a spin-off with another publisher. It was adapted into a film titled World of Delight released on November 21, 2015.[2][3]Her novel Shokubutsu Zukan (ja) will be adapted into a film titled Shokubutsu Zukan: Unmei no Koi, Hiroimashita and scheduled for release on June 4, 2016.

Reviews

[MIL · Rating 3 out of 5]

高空高智慧生物的對話有點無聊
讓我想到海柏利昂里的人工智慧
倒是描寫軍隊這種封閉組織的情形很到位
有川浩是軍武宅嗎~怎麼這麼了解這些東西

這部沒鹽之街那麼閃
但為什麼那麼容易就擄獲美女的心啊好崩潰啊
重要的是要有日久生情的環境嗎???

[Shirlee Chia · Rating 3 out of 5]

我已經枯萎的少女心對不起這本書。但作者是擅長寫這種題材的。後半段的時候，我在與戀愛無關的描寫那裡被感動得流眼淚了。
雖然航空自衛隊的部分很吸引人，溫柔的巨大怪獸也是這個故事的賣點之一。
算是輕鬆小品的感覺。

[Shinya]

自分は大人では無いと考えているのに自分で責任を取ろうとする瞬は大人には成れず、また自分は何なのかを考えては居ないが役割を果たし大人としての存在である高巳の対比が印象的でした