ゾンビ回収婦

Machines now do the work people used to do, and a woman in her thirties has been let go, as has her husband. Raised to be obliging and dutiful, she still longs for a small post of her own, even one a program could fill. She finds it inside a virtual-reality game set after the end of the world, as the lone cleaner behind the scenes of its hotel, hauling away the bodies of zombies that players have killed so the place stays tidy. Nobody thanks or praises her, and she does it with complete devotion all the same. Her few companions include a gentle zombie she names Alaska and a teddy bear, and the game's world seems to hide something about how it came to exist. Where people, zombies and computer-run characters differ grows harder to say.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

156 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2026 by Kodansha

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9784065441121 (original)