![]() ![]() This man is given a job and begins to settle into and discover the world around him, which feels something like a combination of The Village from The Prisoner and the barren islands of Myst. ![]() The second story, The End of the World, involves a man who arrives in a walled village from which he cannot leave who finds that he has no memory of his life prior to arrival. This job, however, embroils him in a strange world of intrigue on levels he never imagined both figuratively and literally. This character gets assigned to a particularly interesting encryption job where he must use special advanced (and prohibited) techniques which make use of his subconscious mind. ![]() Simply put, he encodes data using the structure of his brain as a sortof encoding key. This man is, essentially, a human encryption device. This story follows a man working for The System: a pseudogovernmental organization dedicated to the keeping of certain information secret. The first story, Hard Boiled Wonderland, is a sort of detective story set in a technomagically realistic Tokyo somewhere in the vicinity of the present. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is really two separate narratives: Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World are two seperate stories, told in alternate chapters of this delightful novel. A novel by Murakami Haruki, famed Japanese Author. ![]()
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