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All You Need Is Kill (Paperback)
Staff Reviews
"A fast-paced science fiction novel that puts you almost immediately in the thick of battle, fighting for your life.
You are Keiji Kiriya -- new recruit, fresh out of basic training -- and tomorrow morning you are part of the latest wave of soldiers fighting back against the alien threat that has mired Earth in a global war. Equipped with high-tech battle armor, your platoon is humanity's best, last, only chance to salvage the losing war effort.
The battle is a slaughter. Your platoon is overrun, and you are killed in action.
But then you wake up. You are still Keiji Kiriya, new recruit. And tomorrow you'll be part of the latest wave of soldiers fighting back against the alien threat.
A brilliant combination of storytelling, action, and mind-warping science fiction make this a quick read that sticks with you long after. Hollywood tried its hand at a film adaptation (Edge of Tomorrow), but as is often the case, the movie's many shortcomings are some of the novel's greatest strengths."
--Matt, Longfellow Books
— From Matt Recommends!Description
Anything that moves is an enemy. So don't move, just die!; There's one thing worse than dying. It's coming back to do it again and again...; Beware the Bitch of War!; Defeat in death. Victory in rebirth.
When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?
When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his final death?
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise!
About the Author
Hiroshi Sakurazaka was born in Tokyo in 1970. After a career in information technology, he published his first novel, Modern Magic Made Simple (Yoku wakaru gendai mahou), in 2003 with Super Dash Bunko, a popular young adult light novel imprint. There are now seven volumes in the series, and it was adapted as a manga in 2008 and as a television anime series in 2009. Sakurazaka published All You Need Is Kill with Super Dash Bunko in 2004 and with it earned his first Seiun Award nomination for best of the year honors in Japanese science fiction. His 2004 short story "Saitama Chainsaw Massacre" won the 16th SF Magazine Reader's Award.
In 2009, All You Need Is Kill was the launch title for Haikasoru, a unique imprint dedicated to publishing the most compelling contemporary Japanese science fiction and fantasy for English-speaking audiences. New York Times best-selling author John Scalzi declared All You Need Is Kill to be a novel that "reads fast, kicks ass, and keeps on coming," and it has proven to be one of Haikasoru's most popular titles. Sakurazaka's other novels include Characters (cowritten with Hiroki Azuma) and Slum Online, which was published in English by Haikasoru in 2010.
In 2010, Sakurazaka started an experimental digital magazine, AiR, with Junji Hotta. He remains one of Japan's most energetic writers of both light novels and adult science fiction.
