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 peopleA 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
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