In fifteenth-century Europe, heretics are being burned at the stake. Rafal, a brilliant young man, is expected to enter university at an early age and study the era's most important field, theology. But Rafal values Reason above all else, which leads him both to the shocking conclusion that the Earth orbits the Sun, and into the hands of the Inquisition! A decade later, two members of the Watch Guild, the dour young Oczy and the cynical Gras, find a hidden stone chest that details the secrets of the universe Rafal left behind. Dare they try to change their own stars by selling the heretical texts, or would that only lead to the stake and the fire?

The fascination Gras found in the heliocentric theory is left in the hands of Oczy. Clinging to faint hope in heliocentric theory, Oczy visits the brilliant, aloof monk Badeni with the stone box newly in his possession. Oczy and Badeni seek a new collaborator to help prove the theory. They find a girl despairing of the world, crushed by an era that laughs at the notion of a female scholar. Also entrusted with the research of Count Piast, a luminary of the geocentric theory, Badeni digs yet deeper into his efforts to prove the heliocentric theory. But even as they each pursue their respective hopes, overwhelming despair comes creeping up to them. Close your eyes. Plug your ears. Be ordinary. That's the only way to resist true knowledge.

To fulfill Badeni's plan, Oczy heads for a fateful duel with Inquisitor Nowak. Gras. Oczy. Badeni. Jolenta. Piast. All have put their lives on the line in pursuit of truth. What will be revealed? Hope or despair?Twenty-five years later, amidst upheavals that threaten the authority of C--ity, a girl loses her father to the fate that God decreed and loses her own faith while taking action toward what she truly believes. What destiny awaits her?

Jolenta survives to fight as a leader of the movement of freethinkers that some still call heretics. Twenty-five years ago, she tasted hope and despair. What can she offer to a young girl who has the ambition to change her own fate? And what will become of the resurgent heliocentric theory? As the Inquisition closes in, Draka and Schmidt manage to escape siege thanks to the sacrifices of their friends. But then Nowak approaches. The pair must bet on the faintest of hopes to achieve the grandest of destinies!

EVERY KILL BEGINS WITH "K"? ? In the incident at the purification plant, religion founder Shimon Kamijima died, and J went missing. It seems as if the threat of terrorism is over. But a new leader named K, unknown to THIRD-I, was planning another terrorist attack underground. Can Fujimaru uncover the identity of the terrifying K and the true meaning of "Bloody Monday"?

Zaha Sanko's body has great and terrible powers--they say that possessing his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own life, and he isn't about to let every monstrous lowlife in the galaxy rip him limb from limb. He and his skeletal buddy Avakian will use their dark powers to fend off any murder attempts while they search space for whomever put this curse on Sanko's bones...because killing them might end the madness. (And then Sanko can celebrate with his favorite spaghetti.) Don't miss this hilariously twisted and gruesome new series from the unique mind of Q Hayashida, creator of the manga and Netflix anime Dorohedoro!

Here, Elkins argues that alchemists and painters have similar relationships to the substances they work with. Both try to transform the substance, while seeking to transform their own experience.