英訳は2010年7月、オリジナルは2008年12月リリース。電子書籍化は2012年4月25日リリース。
伊藤計劃の作家としての時間はその才能に比して余りにも少ない。そして作品も余りにも少ない。その中でこの『ハーモニー』の孤高の完成度は圧倒的だ。WEBディレクタの傍ら執筆を開始した伊藤計劃の作品は、WEBとゲームのDNAが組み込まれているかのようだ。少しでもプログラムを書かれる方なら、この作品の端々に登場するHTMLタグの変化形(それを伊藤は『etml』として最後のほうで説明している)で、実際には存在しない拡張系のタグを生成し、タグとタグの間を詩的なフレーズで挟みながら進行させていく手法は、まるで小説と詩とWEBページのアモルファスのような質感を読む者に感じさせる。実に斬新だ。
既に病の床にあって書かれた本作は『人というリソース』の集合体である社会に対しての『自分の身体』というものを常に意識して書かれている。それはSFのように見えてSFでは無く、近未来のようで現在の一部のような気すらしてくる。『WatchMe』をインストゥールされていようがいまいが、既にリソースとして時間的にも税的にも『生府(政府)』には認識され、織り込み済みになっている。本当はそう伊藤計劃は言いたいのではないか、と思えてくる。
この傑作を実写版映像で観てみたい。多くの伊藤計劃のファンはそう思っているのではないだろうか。あるいは伊藤計劃自身が熱狂的なファンであったゲームデザイナー小島秀夫の手でゲーム化して欲しい、多くの伊藤計劃のファンはそう思っているのではないだろうか。今は亡き伊藤計劃のために是非日本のクリエーターに手がけて欲しい。
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Winner of the 2009 Seiun Award and the Japan SF Award
IN A PERFECT WORLD, THERE IS NO ESCAPE
In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. The plan fails, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.
About the author:
Keikaku (Project) Itoh was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from Musashino Art University. In 2007, he debuted with Gyakusatsu Kikan(Genocidal Organs) and took first prize in the "Best SF of 2007" in SF Magazine. He is also the author of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a Japanese-language novel based on the popular video game series. After a long battle with cancer, Itoh passed away in March 2009. Itoh wrote Harmony while in the hospital receiving treatment for the disease.
IN A PERFECT WORLD, THERE IS NO ESCAPE
In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. The plan fails, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.
About the author:
Keikaku (Project) Itoh was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from Musashino Art University. In 2007, he debuted with Gyakusatsu Kikan(Genocidal Organs) and took first prize in the "Best SF of 2007" in SF Magazine. He is also the author of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a Japanese-language novel based on the popular video game series. After a long battle with cancer, Itoh passed away in March 2009. Itoh wrote Harmony while in the hospital receiving treatment for the disease.
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Keikaku (Project) Itoh was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from the Musashino Art University. In 2007, he debuted with Gakusatsu Kikan(Genocidal Organs), and took first prize of the “Best SF of 2007” in SF Magazine. He is also the author of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a Japanerse-language novel based on the popular video game series. After a long battle with cancer, Itoh passed away in March 2009. Harmony was revised by Itoh while in the hospital, receiving treatment for the disease.
登録情報
- ASIN : B00457XDLW
- 出版社 : Haikasoru/VIZ Media (2010/9/29)
- 発売日 : 2010/9/29
- 言語 : 英語
- ファイルサイズ : 604 KB
- Text-to-Speech(テキスト読み上げ機能) : 有効
- X-Ray : 有効にされていません
- Word Wise : 有効
- 付箋メモ : Kindle Scribeで
- 本の長さ : 300ページ
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Constantine
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An excellent science-fiction story by Project Itoh. It is very well written with a nice, well-thought and well-written story that has consistency. It offers an interesting insight and food for thought for a future Orwellian society that is perhaps not so distant from our reality and timeline.
The story flows well and has a relatively fast pace. It raises a lot of points and questions about humanity and society that will make you think about them, however, do not expect an analysis as deep and thorough that delves into the depths of human soul as you would expect from a Dostoevsky's book.
Overall, it is a contemporary Japanese sci-fi novel so if you are a fan of these type of novels as well as the writing style of contemporary Japanese authors, you will enjoy the story.
The story flows well and has a relatively fast pace. It raises a lot of points and questions about humanity and society that will make you think about them, however, do not expect an analysis as deep and thorough that delves into the depths of human soul as you would expect from a Dostoevsky's book.
Overall, it is a contemporary Japanese sci-fi novel so if you are a fan of these type of novels as well as the writing style of contemporary Japanese authors, you will enjoy the story.

Amanda Perkins
5つ星のうち5.0
An Amazing Read
2011年7月14日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
This is truly an amazing book. It's a full book, plenty of action, great characters, and a unique style. It's written as though you're experiencing it from a computer in that it is full of HTML and it uses that to its advantage. The reader is given emotions and insight through the tags and this helps to really bring the book to life. I'm sorry I put it off on my TBR pile for so long.
In more ways than one, this book makes a lot of valid points about our society and where its potential lies. It is not hard to see the potential of the WHO of Tuan's world coming to a reality in our not so distant future. I feel I would be like Tuan and break out of society's mold, putting myself out there into potentially dangerous situations for the possibility of securing alcohol or tobacco, vices we take for granted today, just to feel different.
But there is also a part of me that desires what the WHO offers, a way to maintain your existence without having to make all the decisions yourself. The computers tell you what to eat, monitor your vitals, never getting sick, and while that can be good for a while, I wonder if people could really exist like that for any long term period of time. Perhaps if, as Tuan's predecessors experienced, something extremely horrible happens and it is the way found to prevent it happening again.
I suggest you pick this up if you enjoy a good dystopian novel. It is truly amazing and I was looking forward to reading more of the author's work when I finished. Alas, when I read the small blurb at the end about the author, I learned that he passed away a few years ago, and that this was the only book. If nothing else it is a book to read and savor as there will be no more to come. And if that's not enough of a selling point for you, it has received rave reviews and won a number of awards. It's just that good.
Review originally published on my review site: UrbanBachelorette.com
In more ways than one, this book makes a lot of valid points about our society and where its potential lies. It is not hard to see the potential of the WHO of Tuan's world coming to a reality in our not so distant future. I feel I would be like Tuan and break out of society's mold, putting myself out there into potentially dangerous situations for the possibility of securing alcohol or tobacco, vices we take for granted today, just to feel different.
But there is also a part of me that desires what the WHO offers, a way to maintain your existence without having to make all the decisions yourself. The computers tell you what to eat, monitor your vitals, never getting sick, and while that can be good for a while, I wonder if people could really exist like that for any long term period of time. Perhaps if, as Tuan's predecessors experienced, something extremely horrible happens and it is the way found to prevent it happening again.
I suggest you pick this up if you enjoy a good dystopian novel. It is truly amazing and I was looking forward to reading more of the author's work when I finished. Alas, when I read the small blurb at the end about the author, I learned that he passed away a few years ago, and that this was the only book. If nothing else it is a book to read and savor as there will be no more to come. And if that's not enough of a selling point for you, it has received rave reviews and won a number of awards. It's just that good.
Review originally published on my review site: UrbanBachelorette.com

Barnesm
5つ星のうち5.0
A novel not to read if you are at all unsure you are a zombie.
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