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Science-Fiction Loop, Suzuki Koji Spiral, Suzuki Koji About the Author: Book Summary: He is a Japanese writer, who was born in The story follows on from the first Ring novel, and Hamamatsu and currently lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is establishes the origin of Sadako Yamamura's cursed the author of the Ring cycle of novels, which has videotape. The idea is that if the tape is watched by been adapted into a manga series. His first book, a woman who is ovulating, she can impregnate Ring (also known as Ringu) has been made into a herself in such a woman and therefore live again. Japanese film, which was remade into a US movie. The woman turns out to be Mai Takano. Fluent in English, he has written several books on It also contains a plot about a former classmate of the subject of fatherhood. Ryuji Takayama from medical school performing He is currently on the selection committee for the his autopsy. In so doing, he discovers that Ryuji Japan Fantasy Novel Award. kept a record of the events that lead to his death. The doctor is unsure of what to do because the Book Summary: record clearly states a danger to the public, but it also includes supernatural events, so going public The story revolves around a simulated reality, could ruin his reputation. exactly the same as our own, known as the Loop: created to simulate the emergence and evolution of life. It is in this alternate universe that the events of the previous novels, Ring and Spiral took place. The protagonist, Kaoru Futami, is a medical student whose father, Hideyuki, has contracted Metastatic Human Cancer (MHC), a virulent new breed of cancer that infects humans, animals and even plants, and is becoming a global epidemic. Motivated to find a cure, Kaoru eventually comes to learn about the Loop project, in which his father was involved, and its connection with the MHC virus. .

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