a new home for mankind

Throughout 2024, TheIdeon (commissioned by FlyAwayN0w) did the incredible work of translating the five 1985 Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam novels into English.

Unlike the three novelizations of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, these novels, written by Yoshiyuki Tomino, never received an official English release and had no complete fan translation. The novelizations pick up after the 0079 TV continuity, not the continuity of the MSG novelizations, which end differently than the show (notably, Amuro dies.)

You can grab them as free PDFs here (& 2, 3, 4, 5). I've also converted the PDFs into [possibly janky] EPUBs (with TheIdeon's blessing) for ease of reading: download those here.

The covers are pretty amazing (under the cut):

( MAX 80s )

Giant Robot FM is currently two episodes into a five-episode readalong, at one book per episode, so there's still time to catch up.

TheIdeon's other translation work (featuring lots of Gundam, Tomino, and mecha content) can be found on his website and Patreon, and you can also support his work via ko-fi.