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Nihon SF Grand Prize にほんSFたいしょう

Edition 33 (2012)

SF

Winners

4 people
Ryôe Tsukimura つきむら りょうえ award

A police novel about the manned combat machines assigned to a near-future Tokyo police special unit and the former mercenaries who pilot them. The second book in the series combines terrorism, international politics, and institutional conflict with the scale of robot science fiction and hard realism.

Unusual weapons and police ethics collide at the scene of terrorism.

462 pages
police fictionrobot science fictionterrorismorganizationsmercenaries
Yusuke Miyauchi みやうち ゆうすけ award

A linked collection of science-fiction stories about board and table games such as go, checkers, mahjong, ancient chess, and shogi. At the limits of play, phenomena arise that exceed ordinary ideas of mind, body, and history, turning games into a way of questioning how the world is known.

A single move on the board opens a world beyond human understanding.

283 pages
linked storiesgamesintelligencebodyscience fiction
Ito Keikaku いとう けいかく special award

A steampunk science-fiction novel completed by Toh EnJoe from Project Itoh's unfinished plan. Set in a late nineteenth century where reanimated corpses form part of the social infrastructure, it follows John Watson across the world toward mysteries of soul, record, and body.

In a world where corpses work, a journey begins in search of the soul's location.

459 pages
steampunkcorpsessoulrecordscollaboration
EnJoe Toh えんじょう とう special award

A science-fiction novel completed by Toh EnJoe from Project Itoh's manuscript and plan. In a late nineteenth century transformed by post-Frankenstein corpse technology, John Watson undertakes an intelligence mission and pursues the boundaries among the dead, records, and humanity.

Project Itoh's unfinished story expands through Toh EnJoe's language into a world-spanning adventure.

459 pages
Project ItohToh EnJoecorpsesalternate historysoul