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Shinichi Hoshi

ほし しんいち

Hoshi Shinichi

ペンネーム: Shinichi HoshiPen name used as author

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1926-09-06 (Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
死没
1997-12-30 (Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JCHO Takanawa Hospital) 71歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese
居住地歴
Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo → Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo

経歴

職業
Novelist, Science Fiction Writer
活動期間
1949年〜1996年
影響を受けた人物
Osamu Dazai, Yasunari Kawabata, Sokonan Sugimura, Masayuki Shiro, Henry Slesar, Ray Bradbury, Anatole France, Frederik Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Robert A. Heinlein
影響を与えた人物
Motoko Arai, Yu Esaka
ノミネート
Nominated for 44th Naoki Prize (1960)

学歴

University of Tokyo, Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Agriculture / Department of Agricultural Chemistry
学位: 修士
期間: 1945-1948
卒業年: 1948
国: Japan
Majored in Agricultural Chemistry; master's thesis on amylase production by Aspergillus species in liquid culture

受賞歴

Japan Mystery Writers Association Award
1968
対象作品: Moso Ginko
主催: Japan Mystery Writers Association
結果: 受賞
Special Award of the Nihon SF Taisho Award
1998
主催: Science Fiction Writers of Japan
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Bokko-chan

1971年 Science fiction, Short short 50ページ

A collection of fables depicting a future society.

future societyfablerobots
翻訳
  • English

Mirai Isoppu

1971年 Short short

A collection of fables about the future society.

fablesfuture

作風・主題

文体
Universal and concise style with periodic updates to anachronismsRestrained depiction of violence and sexual content
頻出モチーフ
Mr. NAvoidance of question and exclamation marksFable-like themes

健康

  • Oral cancer
    1994年頃
    Diagnosed and operated in 1994.
  • Interstitial pneumonia
    1997年末
    Cause of death in 1997.

評価・遺産

Shinichi Hoshi was called the god of short short stories and respected as one of the 'Big Three' of Japanese science fiction. Posthumous studies and evaluations continue.

関連学会

  • Science Fiction Writers of Japan

引用

  • The god of short short stories.
    出典: Quoted by SF fans and critics

豆知識

  • One of the rare authors who was also president of a publicly traded company.
  • Approximately 180 cm tall.
  • He rarely allowed adaptations of his works during his lifetime.