Seiun Winners
August 24th, 2008 by Editors
The winners of the 2008 Seiun Awards were announced at DAICON 7, the 47th Nippon SF convention, earlier today. Thanks to Takeo Hosoi, we have the list of winners:
- Japanese Novel: Toshokan Sensou (Series: Library Wars) by Hiro Arikawa (Ascii MediaWorks)
- Japanese Story: “Chinmoku no Furaibai” (“Silent Fly-by”) by Housuke Nojiri (Chinmoku no Furaibai (Hayakawa Publishing))
- Foreign Novel: Brightness Falls from the Air by James Tiptree Jr. (Translated by Hisashi Asakura, Hayakawa Publishing)
- Foreign Story: “Weather” by Alastair Reynolds (Translated by Naoya Nakahara, Galactic North and Other Stories)
- Media: Denno Coil, Coil A Circle of Children (Directed by Mitsuo Iso, Produced by the producer comittee of Denno Coil, Anime)
- Comic: 20th Century Boys / 21th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki (Shogakukan)
- Art: Naoyuki Katoh
- Nonfiction: Hoshi Shin-ichi 1001 Wa wo Tsukutta Hito (Shin-ichi Hoshi
The Man Who Wrote 1001 Stories) by Haduki Saisyo (Shincho-sha) - SF-Related Activity: Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid 2) by Crypton Future Media
- Special Award: Kouichiroh Noda (Masahiro Noda)
Editors’ note: Vocaloid is a piece of software that synthesizes singing from inputs of lyrics and a melody. Hatsune Miku is a version of the software specifically tuned to produce J-pop from a female voice. The character Hatsune Miku has since appeared in manga, anime and video games. More on Wikipedia.
Update: Spelling error in Takashi Nagasaki’s corrected.
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