Hayakawa SF Contest はやかわえすえふこんてすと
Edition 7 (2019)
Winners
5 peopleA winner of the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest, this is an outer-space hard-SF novel set in the far future that asks what intelligence really is. A later complete edition also added the short piece “Nijiiro no Hebi”.
An intelligence-hunting space SF set around a star system at the edge of the galaxy.
Shasa, a girl from a mountain settlement isolated from twelve regions ruled by divine human beings, loses companions in an attack. Travelling with the boy Nagi to find them, she confronts a threat to the world and the truth about its rulers.
A girl's search for her companions leads to the secret of the divine rulers of her world.
A finalist in the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest; no confirmed book edition was found.
Very little public synopsis is available.
Sixteen years after conflict between teleporters and non-teleporters ended, high-school student Mayumi Wakisaka lives in a society still shaped by prejudice around Europa, their symbol. Her quiet life unravels as she is pressed to choose a future as a teleporter.
A girl living after conflict between the powered and unpowered confronts both her abilities and social prejudice.
A finalist in the 7th Hayakawa SF Contest; no confirmed book edition could be found.
Only limited public information is available.