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Nihon SF Grand Prize にほんSFたいしょう

Edition 38 (2017)

SF

Winners

3 people
Ogawa Satoshi おがわ さとし award

A two-volume novel linking Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime with a near future, treating violence, intelligence, games, and politics on a broad scale. It follows people tossed about by systems and chance through a carefully built structure.

Game theory and historical violence ask what human freedom can mean.

448 pages
science fictionCambodiaPol Potgame theoryviolence
Hirotaka Tobi とび ひろたか award

A science fiction collection centered on a murderer who can drive people to death with words alone and on an imagination in which letters themselves become monstrous. Its stories unsettle the boundaries among information, language, body, and memory, combining speculation with sensuous intensity.

It steps into a place where words kill and letters become monsters.

288 pages
science fictionlanguageinformationstory collectionmonsters
Koichi Yamano やまの こういち achievement award