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Voices of a Distant Star: Words of Love/ Across the Stars (ほしのこえ あいのことば/ほしをこえる, Hoshinokoe ai no kotoba/Hoshi o koeru) is a novel written by Makoto Shinkai and Arata Kanou. It is a novelization of Voices of a Distant Star manga, which is in turn an adaption of the short film of the same name.
It was published in 2006 by Enterbrain. The English version was translated and released by Penguin Random House in July 2019.
Summary[]
The word, “world”…
I vaguely thought it meant anywhere there was cell phone reception.
It’s the year 2046. Mikako Nagamine and Noboru Terao are middle school classmates, tentatively sharing an unspoken first love—but unbeknownst to him, Mikako has been recruited into the UN Space Force, and instead of going on to high school, will join the spacecraft Lysithea to search for alien Tarsians. As she travels further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system, the time it takes for a text message to reach the Earth grows longer and longer. Back on Earth, time passes normally for Noboru, but as the years pass he still can’t forget the voice on the other side of the cell phone…
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