Japan SF Criticism Award にほんエスエフひょうろんしょう
Edition 1 (2006)
SF criticismNewcomer award
Winners
2 people
横道仁志
award
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.
SF criticismfantasyBridge of Birdscross-cultural representation
鼎元亨
special award
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.
SF criticismPerry Rhodanproper namesNagasaki