Knights of Sidonia, Volume 1
Kodansha USA · Print & ebook · February 5, 2013
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- Who it’s for
- A deep-space survival story where an underground-raised youth enters a ship’s precarious world.
- Themes
- Far-future space travel, Humanity under alien threat, Human adaptation
- Genres
- YA Sci-Fi Comics
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"CORE EXPOSED" Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity’s home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel’s bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders.
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Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship’s coolheaded female captain.
Life Aboard Sidonia
A deep-space survival story where an underground-raised youth enters a ship’s precarious world.
Come here for
- Looming alien danger and humanity’s fragile survival
- A far-future society changed by life aboard a ship
Expect
- A lone seed ship carrying humanity through the void
- A youth emerging from the vessel’s depths into a new role
Where it sits
| YA Sci-Fi Comics | 51% |
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Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- General Manga
- Science Fiction Comics
- Aeronautics & Astronautics
- Authors
- Tsutomu Nihei
- Publisher
- Kodansha USA
- Published
- February 5, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Far-future space travel · Humanity under alien threat · Human adaptation
- Reading lane
- General Manga