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Japan SF Criticism Award にほんエスエフひょうろんしょう

Edition 6 (2011)

SF criticismNewcomer award

Winners

2 people
関竜司 せき りゅうじ excellence award

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.

science fiction criticismSerial Experiments Lainnetworkselfhoodreligious imagery
Toshiro Fujimoto ふじもと とうしろう special award

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.

science fiction criticismThe Man in the High CastleuchroniaI Chingalternate history