- 2001 Nights
Infobox animanga/Header
name = 2001 Nights
caption =
ja_name = 2001夜物語
ja_name_trans = 2001 Ya Monotogari
genre =Science fiction Infobox animanga/Manga
title =
author =Yukinobu Hoshino
publisher = flagicon|JapanFutabasha
flagicon|USAViz Media
flagicon|ItalyFlashbook
flagicon|GermanyCarlsen Comics
demographic =Seinen
magazine =Monthly Super Action
first = June 1984
last = June 1996
volumes = 3 [Ann manga|id=1644. Accessed2007-02-17 .] Infobox animanga/OVA
title = 2001 Ya Monogatari
director =Yoshio Takeuchi
studio =TMS Entertainment
episodes = 1 [Ann anime|id=6499. Accessed2007-02-17 .]
released = July 19872001 Nights is a
manga series byYukinobu Hoshino published from the June 1984 through June 1996 issues of "Monthly Super Action " fromFutabasha . This series is largely inspired by classichard science fiction, with many visualhomage s to previous SF novels and films. The title is a fusion of and the Arabian1001 Nights .Each of the books is loosely structured around a series of short graphic stories, all of which are taking place in a unified timeline spanning several hundred years. Many of the stories are related to each other (even across books), each building upon the achievements of the previous ones. The stories are often (but not always) scientifically plausible, recalling a lot of the early science fiction of the 1950 and 1960 eras.
Stories
The stories that make up the complete manga are placed in chronological order, with one exception. By the technology used, Night 14 ("Elliptical Orbit") seems to belong somewhere between Nights 6 and 7 (after the invention of
suspended animation andinterstellar travel, but before the Lucifer discovery).Night 1, "Earthglow" - A
space shuttle carries a special cargo.Night 2, "Sea of Fertility" - An executive is summoned to the
Moon by the death of her younger brother and shares his startling lunar discovery.Night 3, "Maelstrom 3" - A
solar sail spacecraft runs into trouble in the asteroid belt.Night 4, "Posterity" - An
embryo space colonization starship is launched toward a distant planet with the help of acomet .Night 5, "Rendezvous" - The first
suspended animation tests produce a strangely spiritual result.Night 6, "Discovery" - An interstellar probe guided by an
A.I. is readied for flight.Night 7, "Lucifer Rising, Part 1 & 2" - An expedition is sent to the remote 10th
planet in thesolar system .Night 8, "The Lights of Heaven" - The test trials of the first
faster than light starship.Night 9, "Journey Beyond Tomorrow" - The probe from Night 6 makes an unexpected rendezvous, and people from Earth begin a
terraforming project.Night 10, "Medusa's Throne" - A
starship explores a strange planet with three separate expeditions.Night 11, "A Stranger's Footsteps" - A planetary intelligence observes human explorers.
Night 12, "Symbiotic Planet" - Humans must learn to live with an alien ecology.
Night 13, "Final Evolution" - A
starship encounters a bizarre black hole creature.Night 14, "Elliptical Orbit" - A long-range
starship is attacked by terrorists, forcing the crew to defend itself. (Note: the cargo should beHelium 3 , nothydrogen )Night 15, "An Hour's Song in a Birdless Sky" - The strange behavior of alien birds gives a clue to a colony's ultimate fate.
Night 16, "Colony" - A man returns to a colony on an alien world to face his demons.
Night 17, "So Brief, So Lasting a Love" - A couple is separated by a black hole.
Night 18, "Odyssey in Green, Part 1 & 2" - A crew finds itself stranded on a doomed planet with a complex
ecology .Final Night, "Children of Earth" - In which the ultimate fate of spacegoing humanity is revealed.
References
External links
* [http://www.g-wie-gorilla.de/content/view/603/11/ Review on G-wie-Gorilla.de]
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