Bewildering Stories welcomes...

Fumiki Takahashi

Fumiki studied French literature at the University of Tokyo. He hosts a radio program and edits a science fiction magazine. His literary career has been of skyrocket quality, bringing him early success and fame for short stories and novels.

“To the Last Drop” depicts a future dystopia where humanity consists of refugees fleeing into the Solar System to escape an ecological catastrophe on Earth. Readers will certainly be fascinated by the personal and social relations arising in a society that is reduced in numbers and is desperately trying to re-establish a foothold on Earth.

Readers may take exception to blaming Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin for the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Rather, it was the early indiscriminate use of pencillin — a naturally occurring organism — that, predictably, skewed the microbes’ process of natural selection. However, readers will surely agree that mankind is quite capable of creating natural disasters by its own short-sighted imprudence.

Fumiki Takahashi’s bio sketch can be found here.

Bewildering Stories thanks Toshiya Kamei for introducing us to the writing of Fumiki Takahashi.