Mobile Suit Gundam
by Yoshiyuki Tomino · first published 1999
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With the Federation's White Base now on Earth and his assault carrier loaded with civilians, Bright Noah must now navigate his ship safely through enemy occupied territory, but unfortunately there are a host of Zeon troops on his tail.
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Not sure if they count but the novelisation of Mobile suit Gundam https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-Escalation-Confron... Yukikaze and Good luck Yukikaze by Chōhei Kambayashi it ends on a cliffhanger though since the later books did not get translated. https://www.amazon.com/Yukikaze-Chohei-Kambayashi/dp/1421532...
on “Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors?” ↗Mobile Suit Gundam the origin and the new Bryan lee o'malley novel Seconds. I'm mainly just reading for pleasure right now. But reading these 2 volumes makes me want more hardback comic books.
on “Ask HN: What book are you reading right now?” ↗…exchange in the original series where the ceremonial head of the Space Nazis compares his son, the acting head of the Space Nazis, to Hitler. The son replies, essentially, "Thanks." There's a tension in Mobile Suit Gundam and its direct descendants. The Space Nazis (Zeon) are also sort of, kind of a stand-in for Imperial Japan during WWII, and between the implicit relatability therein, and the charisma and popularity of…
on “Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits” ↗