A novel by this author opens with the protagonist waiting in a café outside the PanOpticon skyscraper, but failing to work up the courage to approach a lawyer who works there. In that novel by this author, the protagonist and his friend Yuzu Daimon are kidnapped by a yakuza gang. The ninth and final chapter is left blank in a novel by this author (-5[1])about (10[1])Eiji (“ay-jee”) Miyake’s search for his father. (10[1]-5[1])In a novel by this author, a member of the rebel group Union (10[1])reveals that some characters are recycled into a food called “Soap.” (10[1]-5[2])The dystopian state of Nea So Copros in Korea (10[1])is the setting of a narrative by this author in which a restaurant called Papa Song’s (10[1])employs (10[1])the fabricant Sonmi~451. (10[4])A novel by this author (10[2])includes “The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing” (10[1])and “Letters (10[1])from Zedelghem” among its six nested stories. For 10 points, (10[1])name this British author (10[1])of number9dream (10[1])and Cloud Atlas. ■END■ (10[3])