The is an annual poll conducted by ''
Hayakawa's S-F Magazine'' for the best Japanese short story, illustrator, and foreign short story, voted by the readers from their issues in the previous year. The honor has been awarded since 1989.
Award winners
Foreign Short Story
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Thomas M. Disch, "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" (''Translator: Hisashi Asakura'') (1989)
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Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct ma ...
, "For I Have Touched the Sky" (''Translator: Masayuki Uchida'') (1990)
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John Varley, "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" (''Translator: Hisashi Asakura'') (1991)
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John Morressy, "Timekeeper" (''Translator: Youko Miki'') (1992)
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James Tiptree, Jr. "With Delicate Mad Hands" (''Translator: Norio Itou'') (1993)
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Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the ...
, "Understand" (''Translator: Shigeyuki Kude'') (1994)
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Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, ...
, "Learning to Be Me" (''Translator: Makoto Yamagashi'') (1995)
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Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction. His work covered themes of galactic conflict ('' Forge of God'' books), parallel universes ('' The Way'' series), c ...
, "Heads" (''Translator: Kazuko Onoda'') (1996)
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James Tiptree, Jr. "Come Live With Me" (''Translator: Norio Itou'') (1997)
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Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, ...
, "Wang's Carpet" (''Translator: Makoto Yamagishi'') (1998)
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Bruce Sterling, "Taklamakan" (''Translator: Takashi Ogawa'') (1999)
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Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, ...
, "Oceanic" (''Translator: Makoto Yamagishi'') (2000)
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Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the ...
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Story of Your Life
"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in '' Starlight 2'' in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, ''Stories of Your Life and Others''. Its major themes are languag ...
" (''Translator: Shigeyuki Kude'') (2001)
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Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the ...
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Seventy-Two Letters
“Seventy-Two Letters” is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, published in June 2000 in the Ellen Datlow's anthology ''Vanishing Acts''. The novella can also be found in the anthologies ''Year's Best SF 6'' (2001), edited ...
" (''Translator: Youichi Shimada'') (2002)
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Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction writer and amateur mathematician, best known for his works of hard science fiction. Egan has won multiple awards including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, ...
, "Mister Volition" (''Translator: Makoto Yamagishi'') (2003)
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Connie Willis
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945), commonly known as Connie Willis, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards for particular works—more major SF awards tha ...
, "The Last of the Winnebagos" (''Translator: Ohmori Nozomi'') (2004)
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Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford (born November 8, 1955) is an American writer in the fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humo ...
, "The Empire of Ice Cream" (''Translator: Tomo Inoue'') (2005)
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Bradley Denton
Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958) is an American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel ''Blackburn'', about a sympathetic serial killer.
He was born in Towanda, Kansas, and atte ...
, "Sergeant Chip" (''Translator: Naoya Nakahara'') (2006)
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Ian McDonald, "The Djinn's Wife" (''Translator: Masaya Shimokusu'') (2007)
Japanese Short Story
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Mariko Ōhara, "Aqua Planet" (1989)
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Shinji Kajio
is a Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy. The film '' Yomigaeri'' is based on Kajio's novel of the same name and he also co-wrote the manga series (2008) with Kenji Tsuruta (who additionally illustrated the series), which was serial ...
, "Jinii Ni Kansuru Oboegaki" (1990)
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Mariko Ōhara, "Ephemera" (1991)
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Goro Masaki, "Venus City" (1992)
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Hiroyuki Morioka
(born March 2, 1962, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese science fiction novelist.
Biography
In 1992, his first novel ''Yume no Ki ga Tsugeta nara'' ("If Only the Dream Trees Could Touch") appeared in Hayakawa Publishing's ''S-F Magazine' ...
, "Spice" (1993)
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Osamu Makino
is a masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
Osamu can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
*治 "reign"
*修 "discipline"
*理 "logic"
*収 "obtain"
*紀 "chronicle"
*統 "rule"
The name can also be written in hir ...
, "Mouse Trap" (1994)
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Masaki Yamada, "Dead Soldier's Live" (1995)
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Jin Kusagami
Jin is a toneless pinyin romanization of various Chinese names and words. These have also been romanized as Kin and Chin (Wade–Giles). "Jin" also occurs in Japanese and Korean.
It may refer to:
States Jìn 晉
* Jin (Chinese state) (晉國), ...
, "Tokyo Kaika Ereki no Karakuri" (1996)
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Kōshū Tani
is a Japanese science fiction writer. He graduated from the Osaka Institute of Technology, and worked as a volunteer in Nepal and the Philippines. He made his professional debut with the story ''137th Mobile Brigade'' in 1979 while still in N ...
, "Eriko"
1 (1997)
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Yasumi Kobayashi, "Umi o Miru Hito" (1998)
** English translation: "The Man Who Watched the Sea" (''Speculative Japan 2'', Kurodahan Press, 2011)
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Hōsuke Nojiri, "Taiyō no Sandatsusha" (1999)
** Later rewritten into the novel ''Usurper of the Sun'' (English translation was released by
Haikasoru.)
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Masaya Fujita, "Kiseki no Ishi" (2000)
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Chōhei Kanbayashi, "Hadae no Shita" (2001)
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Mizuhito Akiyama
is a Seiun Award-winning author noted for his science fiction light novel series '' Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu''.SFSite
H ...
, "Ore ha Missile" (2002)
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Issui Ogawa is a science fiction writer of more than a dozen novels. His stories are often sociological in nature dealing with issues like disaster and democracy.
Awards
*2004: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for
*2006: Seiun Award Best Japanese ...
, "Rou Voles no Wakusei" (2003)
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Hiroshi Sakurazaka
is a Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy light novels. He is best known for his novel ''All You Need Is Kill'', which formed the basis of the film ''Edge of Tomorrow'', starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
Life and career
Sakurazaka ...
, "Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo" (2004)
** English translation: "The Saitama Chain Saw Massacre" (''Hanzai Japan'', Haikasoru, 2015)
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Hiroshi Yamamoto, "Medousa no Jumon" (2005)
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Masaya Fujita, "Daafu no Shima" (2006)
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Keikaku Itō, "The Indifference Engine" (2007)
Illustrator
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1989)
* Mafuyu Hiroki (1990)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto, Hitoshi Yoneda (tie) (1991)
* Mafuyu Hiroki (1992)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1993)
* Keinojou Mizutama (1994)
* Jun Kosaka (1995)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1996)
* Hikaru Tanaka (1997)
* Hikaru Tanaka (1998)
* Youkou Fujiwara (1999)
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Kenji Tsuruta
is a Japanese manga artist. Among his most famous works is the science fiction series ''Spirit of Wonder'', which has been adapted into an anime series and brought him much acclaim.
Profile
During his formative years in university as a student of ...
(2000)
* Hikaru Tanaka (2001)
* Mikio Masuda (2002)
* Youkou Fujiwara (2003)
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Aya Takano
is a Japanese painter, Superflat artist, manga artist, and science fiction essayist. Aya Takano is represented by Kaikai Kiki, the artistic production studio created in 2001 by Takashi Murakami.
Early life and influence
Takano was born in Sa ...
(2004)
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Aya Takano
is a Japanese painter, Superflat artist, manga artist, and science fiction essayist. Aya Takano is represented by Kaikai Kiki, the artistic production studio created in 2001 by Takashi Murakami.
Early life and influence
Takano was born in Sa ...
(2005)
* Katsukame Hashi (2006)
* Kashima (2007)
References
sfadb: Hayakawas SF Magazine Readers Award
See also
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Seiun Award
The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by , the awards are given at the annual Japan Science Fiction Convention. ...
- Japanese Hugo Awards equivalent
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SF Ga Yomitai! (lit., We Want to Read SF!) - Japanese yearly book, which conducts an annual poll, edited by
Hayakawa's S-F Magazine.
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