"24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai " is a

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...

novella by American writer

Roger Zelazny Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for ''The Chronicles of Amber''. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nomin ...

, originally published in the July 1985 issue of the ''

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It is currently published by Penny Publications. From January 2017, the publicatio ...

''. It won the

Hugo Award for Best Novella The Hugo Award for Best Novella is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novella award is available for works of fiction of between ...

in 1986 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1985. The novella was partly inspired by ''Hokusai’s Views of Mt. Fuji'' (Charles Tuttle, 1965), a book that contains precisely 24 prints painted by

Hokusai , known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series '' Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji'', which includes the iconic print ''The Great W ...

. In Zelazny's version, the character Mari consults that very book during the story. (Hokusai painted more than 100 images of Mt. Fuji but he is best known for another selection of them: '' Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji''.)

Plot summary

A widow makes a pilgrimage in Japan to some of the locations of

's views of Mt. Fuji, ultimately attempting to confront her former husband who had become a nearly all-powerful digital being.

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* 1985 American novels American novellas American science fiction novels Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Hugo Award for Best Novella winning works Mount Fuji Novels set in Japan Japan in non-Japanese culture {{1980s-sf-novel-stub