It is a novelization of an early draft of the 1984 film of the same Japanese name, directed by Komatsu and Koji Hashimoto.
[1] The novel is set in the future where humanity has grown to the point where Earth can no longer support all of them.
As a result, humanity has begun to spread throughout space and there is now an attempt to turn the planet Jupiter into a second sun in order to make some of the other planets inhabitable.
In 1984 a film adaptation of Sayonara Jupiter was released to theaters in Japan.
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