The Cyber Dust Stories

By Alex Shishin

Subjects: Short stories, Japan, Literary Fiction, Essays, Political commentary

Description: This is a collection of short stories and essays that were once published on the internet but were erased (turned into "cyber dust") when the websites ceased to exist. This includes one prize-winning short story ("Bulldozer") and a number of essays that were cited by Wikipedia and other other information sources. These include "Slapstick on the Precipice: The Rise of Koizumi Junichiro," and "Is There Depleted Uranium in Japan's Future (coauthored with Jens Wilkinson). The collection contains Three short stories and four essays.