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Teiji Riyama

りやま ていじ

Riyama Teiji

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1964 (Osaka Prefecture, Japan)
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Company employee
Active Years
2012-

Education

Osaka University
Faculty of Engineering Science
Country: Japan
Belonged to an SF study group during university and engaged in creative writing.

Awards

Sogen SF Short Story Award
2012
Work: All Dreams | In the Land Where They End
Organization: Tokyo Sogensha
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

All Dreams | In the Land Where They End

2012 Science fiction

A short story exploring dreams, loss, and boundaries with science-fictional elements. Winner of the Sogen SF Short Story Award and included in the annual anthology 'Expanded Fantasies'.

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Legend of the Origami Satellite

Science fiction

A short story collected in 'Summer-Colored Imagination'. An allegorical SF piece about technology and memory.

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The Hundred-Year Mound Disturbance

Science fiction

A short story included in 'Summer-Colored Imagination'. Portrays local events from an SF perspective.

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Diselos

2019 Space science fiction

A short story published in the anthology 'Counting the Sky: New Space SF Anthology' (2019). A short SF set in space.

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Bibliography

  • All Dreams | In the Land Where They End
  • Legend of the Origami Satellite
  • The Hundred-Year Mound Disturbance
  • Diselos

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Concise, crisp proseShort-story approach centered on SF settings
Recurring Motifs
spacetechnology and human relationshipsdreams and memory

Legacy

A Japanese SF short-story writer active since the 2010s. His winning of the Sogen SF Short Story Award led to inclusion of his work in annual anthologies.

Trivia

  • Born in Osaka Prefecture.
  • Graduated from Osaka University, Faculty of Engineering Science.
  • Won the 3rd Sogen SF Short Story Award in 2012; debut work appeared in the annual Japanese SF anthology.
  • Also works as a company employee.