Epic historical fiction meets scientific suspense in this award-winning tale that inspired an upcoming anime - available in English for the first time in oversized omnibus editions!
Epic historical fiction meets scientific suspense in this award-winning tale that inspired an upcoming anime - available in English for the first time in oversized omnibus editions!
INTO THE ABYSS OF DESPAIRINTO THE ABYSS OF DESPAIRThe fascination Gras found in the heliocentric theory is left in the hands of Oczy. Clinging to faint hope in heliocentric theory, Oczy visits the brilliant, aloof monk Badeni with the stone box newly in his possession. Oczy and Badeni seek a new collaborator to help prove the theory. They find a girl despairing of the world, crushed by an era that laughs at the notion of a female scholar.Also entrusted with the research of Count Piast, a luminary of the geocentric theory, Badeni digs yet deeper into his efforts to prove the heliocentric theory. But even as they each pursue their respective hopes, overwhelming despair comes creeping up to them. Close your eyes. Plug your ears. Be ordinary. That's the only way to resist true knowledge.
Uoto is an award-winning manga creator in Japan best known for Orb- On the Movements of the Earth.
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