И еще про мангу 2001 Nights История исследования космоса. От почти наших дней до отказа землян от "дальнего поиска".
10 томов.
Не буду мудрить и писать, а банально скопирую с вики, тем более, что у не знающих языка супостата прочитать ее все равно не получится :)
2001 Nights is a manga series published in the early 1990s by Yukinobu Hoshino. This series is largely inspired by classic hard science fiction, with many visual homages to previous SF novels and films. The title is a fusion of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Arabian 1001 Nights.
Each of the books is loosely structured around a series of short graphic stories, all of which are taking place in a unified timeline spanning several hundred years. Many of the stories are related to each other (even across books), each building upon the achievements of the previous ones. The stories are often (but not always) scientifically plausible, recalling a lot of the early science fiction of the 1950 and 1960 eras.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NightsВроде еще и аниме
есть 60 минутная OVA 1987 года выпуска.