Orbital Cloud

( Japanese - Ōbitaru kuraudo ( オービタル・クラウド ) - 2012 )

novel by Taiyo Fujii

translated by Timothy Silver

Published: Haikasoru / Viz Media LLC - trade paperback - 2017
ISBN: 1421592134 / 9781421592138

Haikasoru / Viz Media LLC ( Barnes & Noble ) - Nook - 2017
ISBN: 1421596431 / 9781421596433

Haikasoru / Viz Media LLC ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2017
ASIN: B06X15W599


synopsis
In the year 2020, Kazumi Kimura, proprietor of shooting star forecast website Meteor News, notices some suspicious orbiting space debris. Rumors spread online that the debris is actually an orbital weapon targeting the International Space Station. Halfway across the world, at NORAD, Staff Sergeant Daryl Freeman begins his own investigation of the threat. At the same time, billionaire entrepreneur Ronnie Smark and his journalist daughter prepare to check in to an orbital hotel as part of a stunt promoting private space tourism. Then Kazumi receives highly sensitive, and potentially explosive, information from a genius Iranian scientist. And so begins an unprecedented international battle against space-based terror that will soon involve the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NORAD, and the CIA.

awards
2014 Nihon SF Taisho Award
2015 Seiun Award ( Long form )
First prize in the "Best SF of 2014" in SF Magazine.