They may show up, of course, against lighted surroundings, but if there is not too much light from the side, one can step into a shadow and become remarkably hard to see.īeyond the earth, where there is no air to scatter light, they should be even better. She must prove that humanity is at the top.
With now two aliens residing in her, Hikaru's purpose is clear. By going through the a few million years worth of genetic makeup from Earth's history, this new threat quickly is breaking down the very fabric of life as time and space have developed. Hikaru finds herself in a battle with an organism bent on defining Earth's ideal life-force. In this final volume, life on Earth is on the brink. 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. Modern day Japan is the stage for a new form of hard science-fiction, as author Nobuaki Tadano revisits one of the genre's Grand Masters, Hal Clement, in his debut work 7 Billion Needles.
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