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

Edition 8 (2006)

SF novelsNewcomer award

Winners

2 people

A fantastic SF novel set in 1968 Japan, where the soul of Rousseau descends into a young doctor who tries to create ideal children in an orphanage. Ideas of education, the body, religion, and salvation blur into a dark experiment in control.

An experiment around Rousseau’s ideals draws orphaned children into a dense, unsettling fantasy.

249 pages
fantastic SFeducational philosophyorphanagesalvation and control
木立嶺 こだち りょう honorable mention

A science-fiction story set during a long war between humanity and an alien species. Young officer cadets confront both hopes for peace and the realities of the front, in a world where war itself has become part of negotiation.

In an endless interstellar war, young soldiers come to understand what peace can mean.

military SFalien warpeace negotiationmilitary academy