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Always sporting her headphones to try to close out the world around her, Hikaru is\u00a0clearly a\u00a0reclusive teen aged girl.\u00a0 And within her body resides another life-form known as Ciel, a hunter in search of an intergalactic murderer intent on wiping out humanity. In 7 Billion Needles, two lives share one heart as they race to protect each other and what they most cherish.<\/span>

Modern day Japan is the stage for a new form of hard science-fiction, as author Nobuaki Tadano revisits one of the\u00a0 genre’s Grand Masters, Hal Clement, in his debut work 7 Billion Needles.\u00a0 Loosely inspired by Clement’s golden age title Needle, 7 Billion Needles follows the life of a teenage girl whose quiet boring days are dramatically changed when her body is possessed by an alien life form caught up in an intergalactic manhunt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

On a clear calm night, while on a class trip to the beach, Hikaru Takabe decides to go for a walk to escape the shackles of school and peer pressure.\u00a0 While observing the stars above a calm dark sea in an instant she is disintegrated when\u00a0 struck by a meteor.\u00a0<\/span>

Flash forward one page, and Hikaru awakes, from what seems like a horrible daydream of sorts, sitting amongst classmates in school without a scratch on her.\u00a0 The meteor dream seemed so real she cannot believe she’s alive, but given her relative aloof nature, she soon shrugs off the events and moves on with life.\u00a0 However, one thing she cannot shake off is the strange buzzing she hears coming from her new pair of headphones…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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