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Fantasia Grand Award ふぁんたじあたいしょう

Edition 4 (1992)

Full-length novelLight novel

Winners

5 people
五代ゆう grand prize

A fantasy that unfolds a vision of bodies and origins with youthful narrative force. It was issued in paperback after the award and later reprinted, marking an early long-form work by Yu Godai.

It raises the feel of a world beginning from bones as vivid fantasy.

344 pages
otherworldadventurefantasy
まみやかつき runner-up selection

A light novel centered on Amor, a demon with a jade-colored arm, portraying otherworldly power and battles. Dense supernatural imagery and heroic action move with debut-work energy.

It depicts overwhelming power appearing in a demonic hour as strange, rough-edged action.

260 pages
otherworlddemonsadventure
羽広里子 effort award

An SF-leaning submitted work with a title suggesting a futuristic team. No standalone publication was confirmed, but as an effort-prize work it represents youthful imagination and genre momentum.

Its high-speed title suggests a story about a group and the future.

science fictionadventure
ろくごまるに special award

An award-recognized fantasy by Rokugomaruni, combining mourning with the figure of a warrior. It can be placed as an early work of unusual invention leading toward the author's later playful style.

A strangely titled fantasy that sets the stillness of mourning against warrior action.

otherworldadventurefantasy
大田寛 final selection

An SF submitted work apparently centered on a human migration ship. Its title suggests enclosed shipboard society, migration, and anxiety about the future, and it reached the prize's final selection.

It overlays anxiety about humanity's future onto the enclosed world of a migration ship.

science fictionspaceshipadventure