J-Novel Club acquires Clockwork Planet light novel series

It always seems smart to tie a new manga or light novel acquisition into a currently airing (and streaming) anime adaptation, and that's exactly what digital light novel service J-Novel Club have done with their latest acquisition.

Last night, the company confirmed that they'll be bringing the original Clockwork Planet light novel series to their service, with the first volume available now to all and sundry.

J-Novel Club describes the series, co-written by the author of No Game No Life, thus:

–I know this is sudden, but the world had already collapsed long ago. Earth had died, but the entire planet was reconstructed and reproduced using clockwork – “The Clockwork Planet.” One day, a black box suddenly crashed into the house of Naoto Miura, a high school failure, from above. Inside was– an automata girl. “For me to be forced to sleep for as long as two hundred years from just one little fault, has the intelligence of humanity still yet to exceed even that of a flea?” A gearhead fantasy meshed together by Yuu Kamiya and Tsubaki Himana!

You can find the series for yourself on the J-Novel Club web site and related apps.