Hayakawa SF Contest はやかわえすえふこんてすと
Edition 1 (2013)
Winners
5 peopleThe personality of a scientist transferred into an unmanned space probe collides with memories of his lover Mizuha left on Earth during a long journey across the galaxy. It is a speculative space-opera novel centered on loneliness and recollection.
A lover's memory unsettles a journey through space.
Triggered by an eerie hand clap, narrators who lose their heads and boys with strange holes in their hands are drawn into a mysterious space. It is a fantasy-leaning SF sequence in which multiple anomalies overlap.
A single hand clap begins to unravel the shape of the world.
A man who becomes a monitor for a memory-retention device confronts a reality that keeps changing around a substance called mana, which rewrites the past. It is a short story collection built around time alteration and unstable memory.
In a world that rewrites the past, memory is the only clue.
The journey of the elderly physicist Saroven and his student Karen begins with a summons from the powerful organization Musubime. It is an unclassifiable space opera that expands from the planet Yune to Earth and beyond.
A single summons sends the journey through the universe in an unexpected direction.
Recorded as a final nominee for the first Hayakawa SF Contest. No book-length edition could be confirmed and public information is limited, so it is currently treated primarily as a contest nominee.
One of the final nominees for the first Hayakawa SF Contest.