(born 1971 in
Amami Ōshima) is a Japanese science fiction writer.
He debuted by self-publishing the e-book version of ''Gene Mapper'' in 2012, which was the top of the amazon.co.jp's Best of 2012 Kindle Books in Novel and Literature division. The revised version was published by
Hayakawa Publishing
is a Japanese publishing company, founded in 1945 by Kiyoshi Hayakawa. It is the largest science fiction publisher in Japan; almost all winners of the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel are published by the company.
Notable books written by Japa ...
in 2013.
He was the chair of
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan, or SFWJ (Japanese official name: , ''Nihon SF Sakka Club'') is an organization of SF-related people, professional or semi-professional. It was formerly a friendship organization, but it is a general inco ...
in 2015–2018.
Awards
* 2015:
Nihon SF Taisho
The is a Japanese science fiction award. It has been compared to the Nebula Award as it is given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan or SFWJ. The Grand Prize is selected from not only Science Fiction novels, but also various SF mo ...
for ''Orbital Cloud''
* 2015:
Seiun Award Japanese Long Form for ''Orbital Cloud''
* 2022:
Seiun Award Japanese Long Form for ''Man-kinds''
Works
English translations, long form
* ''Gene Mapper'' (2015), translation of ''Gene Mapper —full build—'' (2013)
* ''Orbital Cloud'' (2017), translation of ''Orbital Cloud'' (2014)
English translations, short form
* ''Hello, World! (ハロー・ワールド), chapter excerpt translated by Reiko Seri and Doc Kane. Kobe, Japan, Maplopo, 2020.''
* "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act" (2015), translation of (2012)
* "A Fair War" (2016), translation of (2015)
* "Eternal Boiler" (2019), translation of (2015)
* "Just Like Migratory Birds" (2021), translation of (2021)
Notes
External links
*
Maplopo , Taiyo Fujii "Hello, World!" (chapter excerpt In English)
1971 births
People from the Amami Islands
Writers from Kagoshima Prefecture
Japanese science fiction writers
Living people
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