Nihon SF Grand Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 41 (2020) award
Joji Hayashi
はやし じょうじ
Hayashi Jōji
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1962-02-06 （Naganuma, Yubari District, Hokkaido, Japan）
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
- Residence History
- Naganuma, Hokkaido (birthplace) → Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan (residence)
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Science fiction writer, Clinical laboratory technician (former)
- Active Years
- 1995-
- Affiliations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (member; 19th chairman), Space Authors Club (member), Mystery Writers of Japan (member)
- Memberships
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan, Space Authors Club, Mystery Writers of Japan
- Influenced By
- Kōshū Tani, Hōsuke Nojiri, Taisan Kobayashi
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Japan SF Grand Prize | Logistics of the Star System Izumo (series) | — | Japan SF Grand Prize Committee | winner |
| 2021 | Seiun Award (Japanese Long Fiction) | Logistics of the Star System Izumo (series) | 日本長編部門 | Seiun Award Committee | winner |
Japan SF Grand Prize
2021
Work:
Logistics of the Star System Izumo (series)
Organization:
Japan SF Grand Prize Committee
Result:
winner
Seiun Award (Japanese Long Fiction)
2021
Work:
Logistics of the Star System Izumo (series)
Category:
日本長編部門
Organization:
Seiun Award Committee
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Seiun Award
1 appearances
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Edition 52 (2021) award
Works
Major Works
Logistics of the Star System Izumo
2018 Science fiction (series) 320 pagesA multi-volume series focused on space warfare, logistics and supply lines. Combines military SF elements with detailed hard-SF scientific descriptions.
logistics and supplyfleet battlesspace physics
The Uroboros Wave
2002 Science fiction 280 pagesPart of the AADD series. Merges advanced scientific concepts with a suspenseful plot in a mid/long-length novel.
artificial intelligenceinformation manipulationscience ethics
Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO (novelization)
2005 Novelization / Science fiction 200 pagesA novelization set in the Gundam universe, expanding and deepening existing media material into prose.
war and the individualethics of weaponry
Adaptations
- [Anime] MS IGLOO (2004)
Isoroku Yamamoto: The Life of a Perpetual Battlefield and the Combined Fleet
2000 Non-fiction / Military history 240 pagesA non-fiction account of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's life from a military-historical perspective.
military historybiography
Bibliography
- Logistics of the Star System Izumo (9 vols)
- The Uroboros Wave
- The Silence of the Stringer
- The Phantoma Cries
- Mobile Suit Gundam: MS IGLOO (novelization)
- Isoroku Yamamoto: The Life of a Perpetual Battlefield and the Combined Fleet
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- A style combining meticulous hard-SF scientific description with military depictionsFrequent incorporation of empirical and technical explanation within the narrative
- Recurring Motifs
- fleet battleslogistics and supplyspace physics phenomena such as black holes and accretion disks
Legacy
Recognized for bridging military alternate-history fiction and hard SF. Winner of the Japan SF Grand Prize and Seiun Award for the 'Logistics of the Star System Izumo' series, and known within the SF community for technical support and mentoring to other writers.
Academic Societies
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan
- Space Authors Club
Archives
- National Diet Library (holdings)
- Authority records: VIAF / ISNI / WorldCat
In Popular Culture
- Connection to fandom through novelizations for the Gundam series
Trivia
- Debuted as a writer in 1995 after working as a clinical laboratory technician.
- Served as the 19th chairman of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan from 2018 and became an auditor in 2020.
- Has written many alternate-history military novels (kaikūsenki) often featuring the Imperial Japanese Navy.