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RAFNAS
SHIRAI Yumiko
This is a science fiction romance masterpiece based on the planet Rafnas saturated with anti-gravitational particles called “Rafna”, where a feuding woman and man reconcile and love begins to grow between them. On a colony where humanity has evolved to be able to fly by consuming “Rafna”, a woman who can fly higher than anybody and a man who cannot fly because of a genetic atavism, work together to save their village from an imminent natural catastrophe.
©Yumiko Shirai2013
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SHIRAI Yumiko
Born in 1967 in Ehime Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts with a major in oil painting.