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Japan SF Newcomer Award にほんエスエフしんじんしょう

Edition 5 (2003)

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Winners

3 people
Masayoshi Yasugi やすぎ まさよし award

This science-fiction novel links humanity's future with the presence of cats, combining a gentle texture with large-scale imagination. Cosmic crisis and scientific speculation are reframed through attention to a familiar living creature.

From the place where cats sleep, the future of space and humanity quietly begins to move.

308 pages
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Koji Kitaguni honorable mention

Under a title that evokes play, myth, and an intellectual maze, this science-fiction work follows the sensation of reality losing its edges. By layering scenes where reason and fantasy intersect, it brings out the anxiety of trying to understand the world.

The deeper the play of intellect goes, the more unsettling reality begins to appear.

308 pages
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Makoto Henri へんり まこと honorable mention

Set around a sea shadowed by the end of the world, this science-fiction novel depicts tension over humanity's destination and unknown presences. In a closed world, the sense of ruin contends with small signs of hope.

An ark adrift on an apocalyptic sea moves toward the border between ruin and renewal.

276 pages
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