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Seiun Awards Announced

September 2nd, 2007 by

Our apologies for not getting these on line quite as quickly as we did the Hugo Awards; unfortunately, Our Man in Yokohama had a critically conflicting appointment with the Seiun Awards Ceremony. Here are the results from the convention newsletter:

  • Japanese Long Fiction: Japan Sinks, Part 2 — Sakyo Komatsu and Koshu Tani (Shogakukan)
  • Japanese Short Fiction: “A Furoshiki and Spider’s Thread” — Housuke Nojiri (Hayakawa Publishing Corportation)
  • Translated Long Fiction: Mortal Engines — Philip Reeve (Translated by Rei Anno, Tokyo Sogensha)
  • Translated Short Fiction: “The Astronaut from Wyoming” — Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion (Translated by Hisashi Asakura. Hayakawa Publishing Corporation)
  • Media: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animation production by Mad House, production by Tokikake Film Partners)
  • Comics: Quiet Country Cafe (Yokohama Shopping Trip) — Hitoshi Ashinano (Kodansha)
  • Artist: Yoshitaka Amano
  • Non Fiction: Passport Into Space 3: Space Pioneers A Frontline Report — Yuichi Sasamoto (Asahi Sonorama)
  • SF-Related Activity: The M-V Launch System — Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Special Award: Yoshihiro Yonezawa

Update: Amusing typo fixed.

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3 Responses to “Seiun Awards Announced”

  1. on 04 Sep 2007 at 9:28 am1 Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Sept. 4, 2007: It’s Celebrate Spanish Royalty Week!

    [...] Science Fiction Awards Watch is reporting that Hitoshi Ashinano’s Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou has won a Seiun Award, [...]

  2. on 06 Sep 2007 at 8:47 am2 Jun Mukai

    The M-V Launch System is not Special Award. Seiun Awards have a category for some SF-related activities. The M-V wins this category. This category is same as other categories of Seiun Awards — there are some nominees, voting, and so on. In this year, for example, the OpenSky project (see http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/works/OpenSky.html) is also a nominee for this category.

    Special Award is presented to some great fans/authors/etc of Japanese fandom. Special Award is not similar to other categories. For example, it is not presented in every year, and it has no nominees and no voting — it is determined by discussions.

    BTW, the writer of `Mortal Engine’ is Philip Reeve, not Phillip (there is only one `l’ in the first name).

  3. on 06 Sep 2007 at 9:55 am3 Editors

    Thank you! Changes made.

    We’d be very grateful if you could also have a look at our page on the Seiuns as we are definitely short of information.