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Edition 10 (2022)

SFNovel

Winners

5 people
Ogawa Rakuyoshi grand prize

On a post-human Earth, classic literary figures revived as different species continue writing novels forever. A Hayakawa SF Contest grand-prize work that stretches the boundary between literature and science fiction.

The year is 802,700 CE, on an Earth after humanity’s extinction.

448 pages
Science fictionLiteraturePost-apocalypseWriting
塩崎ツトム special award

Set in the Brazilian jungle, an anthropologist, a doctor, and a Japanese-Brazilian young man pursue a Nazi biologist and step into a world where life and spirits overlap. Science fiction that fuses magical realism and biotechnology.

Biotechnology SF meets fantastical literature in a strange conspiracy story set in the Amazon.

376 pages
Science fictionMagical realismBrazilLife
江島周 finalist

A finalist in the 10th Hayakawa SF Contest. No standalone book publication could be confirmed, so the record remains limited to its status as a finalist.

Finalist in the 10th Hayakawa SF Contest.

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麻上柊 finalist

A finalist in the 10th Hayakawa SF Contest. No standalone book publication could be confirmed, so the record stays limited to its status as a finalist.

Finalist in the 10th Hayakawa SF Contest.

Science fictionFinalistUnpublished
小田明宜 finalist

A finalist in the 10th Hayakawa SF Contest. No standalone book publication could be confirmed, so the record stays limited to its status as a finalist.

Finalist in the 10th Hayakawa SF Contest.

Science fictionFinalistUnpublished