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  200X年──

  連續發生多起謎樣的飛機失事意外,製造商的負責人和倖存的駕駛員一起升空展開調查,卻在失事的兩萬公尺高空

  發現一個祕密……?另一方面,罹難駕駛員的孩子也在海邊拾獲未知的神祕生物。當大人和小孩發現的兩個祕密連成一線,也正是全日本──甚至全人類將面臨前所未見的奇妙危機之時……

本書特色

  以輕小說作品成功登陸文學小說平台
  被譽為繼櫻庭一樹之後,最有機會獲得直木賞的輕小說作家──有川浩
  繼第十屆電擊小說大賞<大賞>得獎作品《鹽之街》大獲成功之後
  推出描寫航空自衛隊的大場面娛樂小說
  「自衛隊三部曲」第二部──《空之中》
  結合「天空之城」與「超人力霸王」的科幻青春物語

  基本上可說是「沒有超人力霸王(註:ウルトラマン)的超人力霸王」,或是將金子修介導演在電影「卡美拉 大怪獸空中決戰(註:電影「 ガメラ大怪獣空中決戦」,一九九五年)」中所呈現出的意象(摒棄過去怪獸電影制式化的描寫,改以具體懸疑情節敘述的手法)在小說世界裡重現的科幻冒險鉅作。

  故事發生在四國海域高度兩萬公尺的高空中。民營超音速噴射機開發小組的測試機和自衛隊軍機相繼在同一片領空發生了神秘的意外,似乎有相當巨大的不明飛行物飄浮在上空。民營事故調查委員會委員——春名高巳造訪自衛隊基地,與失事當時駕駛同一小隊另一架軍機的女飛行員武田光稀一同前往事故領空展開調查。

  另一條故事線的主角是住在高知市近郊的高中生——齊木瞬。瞬在海邊撿到了類似水母的不明生物,將其取名為「FAKE」。FAKE擁有任意操縱電波訊號的能力,透過瞬過世的父親留下的手機,以生澀的語言和他交談……這部分就成了「E.T」風格的青少年科幻路線。以使用方言的筆法鮮活重現高知當地的氣氛,充滿青春小說的寫實風格。

  兩線故事夾雜敘述,在後半段合而為一時展現出一幅雄偉浩大的景象。這部傑作讓人在現代小說中重新鮮活感受到兒時首次看到「超人力霸王」瞬間的感動與激情。

  ※關連閱讀
  台灣角川已出版的作品:
  《鹽之街》、《圖書館戰爭》、《圖書館內亂》

  即將在台灣角川出版的作品:
  圖書館系列:《圖書館危機》、《圖書館革命》
  自衛隊三部曲:《海之底》

443 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2004

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Hiro Arikawa

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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.

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August 16, 2020
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。
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May 3, 2025
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
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