Readers and writers of science fiction.
Seiun nominees
The Seiun Award nominees have been announced. For those who don't read Japanese, here are the translated works involved:
Foreign novel
- United States of Japan, Peter Tieryas, translated by Naoya Nakahara
- Jack Vance Treasury 1 (Magnus Ridolph), Jack Vance, translated by Hisashi Asakura and Akinobu Sakai
- The Grace of Kings, Ken Liu, translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa
- Roderick, John Sladek, translated by Kiichiro Yanashita
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North, translated by Hiromi Amagai
- Imperial Radch trilogy, Anne Leckie, translated by Hideko Akao
- Enchanted Night, Steven Millhauser, translated by Motoyuki Shibata
Foreign short story
- "Seventh Sight", Greg Egan, translated by Makoto Yamagishi
- "The Day the World Turned Upside Down", Thomas Olde Heuvelt, translated by Jun Suzuki
- "Backward, Turn Backward", James Tiptree, Jr., translated by Kazuko Onoda
- "The Guiding Nose of Ulfant Banderoz", Dan Simmons, translated by Akinobu Sakai
- "The Deathbird", Harlan Ellison, translated by Norio Itō
- "Simulacrum", Ken Liu, translated by Yoshimichi Furusawa
Media
(This combines foreign and Japanese works; here's the one foreign one.)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Media nominees also include Shin Godzilla/Godzilla Resurgence and your name.. For TV anime fans, there's also Kuromukuro, Concrete Revolutio, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and the Zegapain movie.
The comics nominees include the manga that Erased was adapted from.




It's always fun to see those one or two old, old, works mixed in with the new stuff.