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Edition 1 (2013)

SFNovel

Winners

5 people
Kazuki Mutou grand prize

The 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.

332 pages
space SFmemoryromancelonelinessspeculationAI
坂本壱平 finalist

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.

328 pages
fantasyanomalylinked storiesscience fictionabsurdity

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.

318 pages
time SFmemoryaltered realityshort story collectionscience fiction
小野寺整 finalist

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.

448 pages
space operaplanetary explorationjourneylanguagescience fiction
泉氏 finalist

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.

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