Japan SF Criticism Award
にほんエスエフひょうろんしょう
A newcomer award for SF criticism hosted by the Science Fiction Writers of Japan.
- Established
- 2006
- Organizer
- Science Fiction Writers of Japan
- Category
- Criticism and Critical Writing
- Selection Method
- Open call
- Target
- Newcomer
- Frequency
- 1 per year
- Status
- Ended
Description
A newcomer award hosted by the Science Fiction Writers of Japan, targeting unpublished SF criticism works. Winning works are published in SF Magazine along with a trophy, and manuscript fees are paid. On hiatus since the 9th award (2014).
Prize
- Main Prize
- Trophy presentation, publication in SF Magazine, and manuscript fee payment
- Trophy
- Manuscript fee from publication
Selection
Selection Process
| Stage | Judges | Pass Rate | Announcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Selection | Science Fiction Writers of Japan President: Takachiho Haruka, Sena Hideaki; SF Magazine Editor-in-Chief: Shiozawa Kaiji, Shimizu Naoki | — | Announced in SF Magazine |
Criteria
- Must be an unpublished SF criticism work
- Open to both professionals and amateurs
Related Awards
- Subaru Critique Award
- Sogensha Mystery Criticism Award
- Japan Association of Writers for Children Criticism Newcomer Award
- Contemporary Tanka Criticism Award
- Contemporary Haiku Criticism Award
Official Resources
http://www.sfwj.or.jp/hyoron.htmlPast Winners
ジュラシック・パークのフラクタル is a work by 進藤洋介, recorded here as a 奨励賞 selection. The entry summarizes the award context and bibliographic findings in a form suitable for a work profile.
A concise profile of ジュラシック・パークのフラクタル by 進藤洋介, including award and bibliographic context.
Aramaki Yoshio’s “Puyopuyo Engineering” is a Japanese literary work that explores memory, relationships, self-discovery. It presents its subject through a focused narrative or poetic frame shaped by the work's award context.
Aramaki Yoshio’s “Puyopuyo Engineering” presents its award-winning themes in an accessible literary form.
This SF critical essay reads Sayuri Ueda's The Ocean Chronicles through the relations between ocean people and land people, bodies and communities, and bachelorhood and social systems. The prize-winning work itself was a magazine-published essay, using the novel's post-sea-level-rise world as a basis for discussing images of humanity.
A critical rereading of the vast future history of The Ocean Chronicles from the viewpoint of those who stand outside community.
This SF critical essay examines how Stanislaw Lem's Solaris was read and transmitted in Japanese. It focuses on translation, reception, and shifts in understanding, and was recognized by the Japan SF Criticism Award.
A critical essay that traces the reception of Solaris and reconsiders problems of translation and understanding.
A science fiction critical essay on the network, selfhood, and godlike ubiquity depicted in the anime Serial Experiments Lain. Using the work’s religious and information-theoretical images, it interprets Lain as a vision of the near future.
A critical reading of selfhood and futurity in the network age through the figure of Lain.
A science fiction critical essay reading Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle through uchronia and the I Ching. It links alternate-history structure with divinatory thought to examine contingency and narrative branching.
By joining alternate history with the I Ching, it considers how another history comes into being.
世界内戦とわずかな希望―伊藤計劃『虐殺器官』へ向き合うために is a critical work that rereads literature or history in order to question contemporary imagination and social choices, using close reading to reveal the problems of its age.
世界内戦とわずかな希望―伊藤計劃『虐殺器官』へ向き合うために is a prize-recognized work by 岡和田晃.
文字のないSF―イスフェークを探して is a critical work that rereads literature or history in order to question contemporary imagination and social choices, using close reading to reveal the problems of its age.
文字のないSF―イスフェークを探して is a prize-recognized work by 高槻真樹.
アシモフの二つの顔 is a work by 石和義之. 『アシモフの二つの顔』は石和義之による作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。
アシモフの二つの顔 presents 石和義之's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.
光瀬龍『百億の昼と千億の夜』小論 旧ハヤカワ文庫版「あとがきにかえて」の謎
消失点、暗黒の塔―『暗黒の塔』V部、VI部、VII部を検討する
グレッグ・イーガンとスパイラルダンスを「適切な愛」「祈りの海」「しあわせの理由」に読む境界解体の快楽 is a SF評論 by 海老原豊. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.
A focused SF評論 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.
国民の創世―〈第三次世界大戦〉後における〈宇宙の戦士〉の再読 is a SF評論 by 磯部剛喜. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.
A focused SF評論 that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.
A work of SF and fantasy criticism on Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds. From the perspective of a bridge across rupture, it reads the novel's cross-cultural Chinese fantasy, narrative structure, and adventure appeal.
A critical reading of Bridge of Birds' imagined China as a story of rupture and connection.
An SF critical essay on Japanese proper names in the Perry Rhodan series. It links naming and historical memory in the long-running translated series to a hypothesis involving Dutch POW survivors in Nagasaki.
Reading war memory and translated SF through Japanese names in Perry Rhodan.