For CLAMP fans only. This is part eight of a twelve issue serial that examines and celebrates all of the work published by CLAMP up to that point in time. CLAMP is a group of four manga writers and artists, and their work is popular and influential in its field. This issue focuses solely on the series X/1999, a grim fantasy about the end of the world set in Tokyo at the turn of the century. As with other issues, the magazine-style book offers reproductions of artwork, summaries of different volumes in the series, a list of characters and descriptions, and various interviews. Since I am a fan of CLAMP and many of their series, this unusual book is interesting to me, especially with the three specialty chess pieces. ( )