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Seiun Winners Announced

July 4th, 2009 by Editors

The winners of the 2009 Seiun Awards have been announced at T-Con 2009 in Japan. They are as follows:

  • Japanese Novel: <harmony/>, Project Itoh (Hayakawa Publishing)
  • Japanese Story: “Peer Peer Douga at the South Pole”, Housuke Nojiri (Hayakawa’s SF Magazine Apr, May 2008)
  • Foreign Novel: Spin, Robert Charles Wilson, translated by Mogi Takeshi (Tokyo Sogensha)
  • Foreign Story: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, Ted Chiang, translated by Nozomi Ohmori (Hayakawa’s SF Magazine Jan, 2008)
  • Media: MACROSS Frontier, directed by Shoji Kawamori (Satelight)
  • Comic: Trigun Maximum, Yasuhiro Nightow (Shonen-gahosha)
  • Artist: Naoyuki Katoh
  • Non-fiction: Nippon Con File 2007, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writes of Japan (Kadokawa Haruki)

If you read Japanese you can see the official announcement here. Our thanks to Takeo Hosoi for providing the information. Cataly has some background on the winners here.

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  2. on 05 Jul 2009 at 12:41 pm2 sf

    I am presenting a new science fiction writer Romualdas Draksas. His new book „Man.The Awakening“ has just been published. Here is a short presentation of the book.

    Man—the galaxy’s most fearsome creature, constructed as a unique war machine, who rose up and escaped from his creators and ended up a captive on a planet inhibiting most of his powers. But what were to happen if Humans again found themselves beyond the limits of their incarcerating planet’s effects, and they regained all of the awesome abilities their creators had given them? In other words, what would it mean if they started the process that the other races of the galaxy referred to as “the awakening”?
    Just as a single rock can suffice to set a lethal avalanche in motion, so can a lone awakened Human be enough to rattle the entire galaxy.

  3. on 05 Jul 2009 at 12:43 pm3 Sharon E. Dreyer

    I don’t read Japanese, but maybe they will have translations available for the curious readers among us!

  4. on 05 Jul 2009 at 4:33 pm4 jmuk

    The official English title of the winner of Japanese Novel is <harmony/>
    I think the announcement of sf-fan.gr.jp is wrong.

  5. on 06 Jul 2009 at 4:21 am5 Editors

    jmuk:

    Thanks for the correction. I’m sure that this will lead to much head scratching amongst people not familiar with HTML. – Cheryl