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Asuka may refer to:

People[edit]

• Asuka (name), a list of people
• Asuka (wrestler) (born 1981), professional wrestler
• Asuka (wrestler, born 1998), professional wrestler also known as Veny outside of Japan

Places[edit]

In Japan[edit]

• Asuka, Yamato (飛鳥), an area in Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture) in Japan, where imperial palaces and centers of government were built in the 6th and 7th centuries
• Asuka, Nara (明日香), a village in Nara Prefecture in Japan, in the same area as ancient Asuka (飛鳥)
  • Asuka-dera (飛鳥寺), also known as Hōkō-ji (法興寺), a Buddhist temple in Asuka, Nara
• Asukayama Park (飛鳥山公園), a park in Kita, Tokyo, Japan

Outside of Japan[edit]

• Asuka, Estonia, a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia
• Asuka Station (Antarctica)

Ships[edit]

• MS Asuka (now MS Amadea), a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 1991 to 2006
• MS Asuka II, a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 2006 onwards
• JS Asuka, an experimental ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force commissioned in 1995

Popular media[edit]

• Asuka (album), by the traditional/pop-rock group Rin'
• Asuka (magazine), a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Kadokawa

Fictional entities[edit]

• Asuka Clan, a group of ninja in the Shinobido video game series
• Asuka Kudō, a character from Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?
• Asuka Mizunokoji, a character from the manga series Urusei Yatsura
• Asuka Langley Soryu, a character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise

Other uses[edit]

• Asuka period (飛鳥時代), a Japanese era from 538 to 710 AD
• ASTRO-D/ASCA (Asuka), satellite launched on 20 February 1993
• Asuka, a subsidiary of the French manga publisher Kazé

See also[edit]

• Aska (disambiguation)
• Capital of Japan
• All pages with titles beginning with Asuka
• All pages with titles containing Asuka

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Look up rei in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Rei or REI may refer to:

Arts and entertainment[edit]

• Rei, a story arc of the anime Higurashi When They Cry
• Rei I, II and III, episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series

People[edit]

given name

• Rei (given name), a Japanese name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
• Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, or Rei Safavi-Naini, Iranian-born computer science professor
• Pelé (1940–2022), ("The King" (O Rei)), Brazilian footballer
• Eusébio (1942–2014), ("The King" (O Rei)), Portuguese footballer
• José Fontana (footballer) ("Rei", 1912–1986), Brazilian footballer
• Rei (wrestler), Hong Kong professional wrestler

surname

• Aleksander Rei (1900–1943), Estonian politician
• August Rei (1886–1963), Estonian politician
• Leino Rei (born 1972), Estonian actor and theatre director
• Sofia Rei, Argentine musician

Other uses[edit]

• Redlands Municipal Airport, California, U.S., FAA identifier REI
• International Conference on Radiation Effects in Insulators (REI)
• Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), an American retail and outdoor recreation services corporation
• Remote error indication (REI), in synchronous optical networking
• Reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI), a surgical subspecialty of obstetrics and gynecology
• Revue des études islamiques, academic journal

See also[edit]

• All pages with titles beginning with Rei
• Cristo Rei (disambiguation)
• Reis (disambiguation)
• Rey (disambiguation)
• Rei Rei, a video animation series

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Of Men and Monsters

First edition
Author	William Tenn
Cover artist	Stephen Miller[1]
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	June 1968
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	251 pp
OCLC	5086030

Of Men and Monsters is a science fiction novel by American writer William Tenn, published in June 1968 as a paperback by Ballantine Books. The book is an expansion of his story "The Men in the Walls", originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in October 1963.^[2] Of Men and Monsters is Tenn’s only full-length novel, as the majority of his other stories are novellas.^[2][3]

Plot summary[edit]

The storyline introduces giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of the walls of the homes the monsters have built, sneaking out to steal food and other items from the aliens. A complex social and religious order has evolved, with women preserving knowledge and working as healers, while men serve as warriors and thieves. For the aliens, human beings are just a nuisance, neither civilized nor intelligent, and are generally regarded as vermin to be exterminated.^[4]

The novel opens with the story of Eric, a boy who is a member of a tribe that calls itself "Mankind". In order for Eric to become an adult, he must undergo a ceremonial rite of passage in which he must venture out on his own into monster territory and steal some item from them which the tribe can then use for themselves. As he is about to embark on his adventure, Eric learns that his uncle has been a secret supporter of a very different philosophy – the idea that "Ancestor-Science" failed to repel the aliens when they first came and therefore to seek the old "science" would be futile. It would be wiser to try to gain knowledge of "Alien-Science" and then to turn it against the monsters. Eric goes out into alien territory to prove himself and ends up meeting some more people who also believe that alien science is the answer to escaping from their predicament. However, on his return to the burrows, Eric finds an insurrection led by his uncle has failed and he is now an outcast. What follows is Eric's journey from boy to man, from follower to leader and ultimately from captivity to deliverance.^[5]

Reviews and reception[edit]

In Science Fiction Weekly, Adam-Troy Castro called the novel "imaginative and often witty", but faulted the characterization as "both simple and schematic", noting that "(n)obody's interesting, not even the hero."^[6]

Jo Walton described it as "simultaneously an adventure story taking itself seriously and a parody of an adventure story, played for laughs", and lauded the conclusion as "a happy ending, a funny ending, an emotionally satisfying ending, but an ending that’s typically, wryly, and exclusively Tenn."^[3]

Publication[edit]

The book was originally published in June 1968 by Ballantine in a mass market paperback edition. More reprints have followed through the years, including a Gollancz Science Fiction Collectors' Edition.^[4] Other language editions and reprints include:^[7]

• 1969 - Gli uomini nei muri (Mass market paperback in Italian) by Mondadori, Urania #521
• 1972 - Von Menschen und Monstren (Paperback in German) by Heyne
• 1991 - Lidé a Netvoři (Paperback in Czech) by Ivo Železný
• 2001 - Here Comes Civilization (Hardback in English) by NESFA Press
• 2011 - Of Men and Monsters (Kindle edition in English) by Gateway

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Of Men and Monsters title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Of Men and Monsters at Open Library
• "The Men in the Walls" title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Men in the Walls public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• "The Men in the Walls" on the Internet Archive