Here at Haikasoru we love science fiction and fantasy. This month we're exploring the spectrum of the field by publishing the philosophical hard SF of Jyouji Hayashi's The Ouroboros Wave and Noriko Ogiwara's heroic fantasy Dragon Sword and Wind Child. They'll be out on the seventeenth, but you can get them a week early, thanks to our SFF Giveaway Contest!

All you need do is leave an essayish comment on this post of between 25 and 100 words (or thereabouts, we won't count) on why you prefer SF, or like fantasy better, or like them both equally. Heck, you can even argue that there is no real difference between SF and fantasy. We'll pick the four we like best—at least one pro-SF piece, one pro-fantasy piece, and if the other arguments appeal to us, we may pick from among them as well. Pro-SFers will win The Ouroboros Wave and fantasy-lovers will win Dragon Sword and Wind Child. Fence-straddlers will get a random choice of the two. If you happen to already have a a copy of one of the previous editions of Dragon Sword, I'll swap out the prize for the Haikasoru title of your choice.

Haikasoru is all about international speculative fiction, so feel free to play from anywhere! We'll also accept submission in Japanese, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Greek, to name a few of the languages we know around the office. You have all week, and we'll announce the winners on Friday at noon, Pacific time. Sound good? It's great! Let's get to it!




Note: we do moderate comments so it may take a bit for your entry to appear.