In Counter-Clock World, time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with "goodbye", blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first - but their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.

Can we really learn to be happy? Yes, we can. Each semester, nearly 1,400 students sign up for Harvard professor Tal Ben-Shahar's life-changing class, "How to Get Happy". Currently it's the hottest course at Harvard, taken by 20 percent of its graduates. In Happier, Professor Ben-Shahar brings the ideas of the Ivory Tower to Main Street, distilling the lessons and exercises from his course into a slim volume of practical wisdom.

主人公・唯野仁。彼は若年ながら早治大学英米文学科の名物教授であり、実は隠れて小説を発表している新進作家である。 いいですね!うらやましいですね!唯野先生、多才ですね!・・・しかしその内幕は、グロテスクな日常---賄賂の対象にされなくて拗ねちゃった学部長等々---を乗り切らなければならないは、壮大な文学理論を打ち立てなければならないは、締め切りもあるし、でもそれはヒミツだしと、超☆多忙。 ・・・さて。 事実は小説より奇なり。象牙の塔の内情は、こんな甘いものではないぞ、もっとむちゃくちゃだぞという某大学教員の証言があるのですがどうでしょう。 笑いすぎて涙がこぼれるほど笑えるのは、コレが「よくできたフィクション」と思ってるからなのですが・・・ コレが事実、またはそれ以下なら笑うに笑えないと思うのですけれど、どうでしょう・・・ 悩みはアナタを追い込むことでしょう!総時間10時間を超え、プロデューサーも追い込みました!まさに怪作!これぞ日本版オーディオブックの真髄です。 「ことのは出版オーディオブックの情報はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

Jason Taverner - world-famous talk show host and man-about-town - wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he is - including the vast databases of the totalitarian government. And in a society where lack of identification is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run with a host of shady characters, including crooked cops and dealers of alien drugs. But do they know more than they are letting on? And just how can a person's identity be erased overnight?