Hayakawa SF Contest はやかわえすえふこんてすと
Edition 5 (2017)
Winners
6 peopleSet in a near-future Tokyo where a technology called Flora applies plant physiology to computation, the novel unfolds in a city ringed by green belts and packed with computing resources. It is a mystery-flavored SF story about a new coexistence between plants and humanity.
A story of coexistence between people and nature in a Tokyo that turns plants into computing resources.
After the death of his unsuccessful SF-writer father Daniel, his son Edgar confronts the artificial intelligence Edgar 001 through the unfinished manuscript left behind. In a structure where stories generate more stories, the novel layers family memory over the lineage of modern science fiction.
An unfinished manuscript connects family memory with the history of SF.
When a weary programmer visits Shiretoko, a red aurora appears in the sky that night and marks the beginning of a worldwide blackout. It is a disaster SF novel depicting people confronting an unprecedented catastrophe.
A red aurora announces a blackout across the world.
A finalist in the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest, later published in 2018 as “Hoshi o Otosu Boku ni Furu, Mashiro no Ame” in the Hayakawa Bunko JA line. It is a SF love story about a girl who shoots down stars from an orbital garden.
A small love song for a girl who lives as a machine that shoots down stars.
A finalist in the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest; no confirmed commercial book edition was found.
Public information is limited.
A finalist in the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest; no confirmed book edition could be found.
Only limited public information is available.