This is a nonfiction-like science fiction story featuring a mysterious British painter. One day, Osamu Tezuka meets a clumsy painter named Conny Doberman, who has just arrived in Shinjuku after wandering through Europe. Doberman is working on an extensive series of paintings titled "A History of a Planet," which consists of hundreds of pieces created at the request of a clientmysterious existence. Tezuka soon discovers a particular pattern among these paintings.
1970/02 Published in SF Magazine (Hayakawa Shobo)