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2014 Seiun Award Nominees

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The 2014 Seiun Award shortlist has been announced by the Japanese national convention committee. The full list, in Japanese, is here. (A Microsoft page translation is here.)

The works nominated in the translation categories are:

Best Translated Novel

  • Incandescence, Greg Egan, translated by Yamagishi Shin (Hayakawa)
  • Serpent’s Egg, R.A. Lafferty, translated by Inoue Hisashi (Seishinsha)
  • Embassytown, China Miéville, translated by Masayuki Uchida (Hayakawa)
  • Kraken,China Miéville, translated by Masamichi Higurashi (Hayakawa)
  • The Islanders, Christopher Priest, translated by Furusawa Yoshimi-dori (Hayakawa)
  • Blindsight, Peter Watts, translated by Yoichi Shimada (Tokyo Somoto-sha)
  • Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis, translated by N. Omori (Hayakawa)

Best Translated Story

  • “Final Exam”, Megan Akenberg, translated by Jun Suzuki (Hayakawa SF 9/13)
  • “Vacuum Lad”, Stephen Baxter, translated by Yagauchi Satoru (Hayakawa SF 9/13)
  • “Christopher Raven”, Theodora Goss, translated by Jun Suzuki (Hayakawa SF 12/12)
  • “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”, Kij Johnson, translated by Misumi Kazuyo (Hayakawa SF 1/13)
  • “The Paper Menagerie”, Ken Liu, translated by Furusawa Yoshimi-dori (Hayakawa 1/13)
  • “Palimpsest”, Charles Stross, translated by Hiroshi Kaneko (Hayakawa SF 9/13)

[Via Locus Online.]

2013 Seiun Awards

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The winners of the 2013 Seiun (Nebula) Awards were announced at the 52nd Japanese national SF convention on July 20.

The Best Japanese Long Story
The Empire of Corpses
Priject Itoh X Enjoe Toh
Kawade Shobo Shinsha

The Best Japanese Short Story
Ima Shuugouteki Muishikio
Chohei Kanbayashi
Hayakawa Publishing Corporation

The Best Translated Long Story
The Android’s Dream
John Scalzi / Masayuki Uchida
Hayakawa Publishing Corporation

The Best Tranlated Short Story
Pocketful of Dharma
Paolo Bacigalupi / Hiroshi Kaneko
Hayakawa Publishing Corporation

The Best Dramatic Presentation
Bodacious Space Pirates
Director: Tatsuo Sato
Studio: SATELIGHT Inc.
Original work: Yuichi Sasamoto / Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.
Production: Project Mo-retsu

The Best Comic
Inherit the Stars by Yukinobu Hoshino,
Original Author James Patrick Hogan of “INHERIT THE STARS”,”THE GENTLE GIANTS OF GANYMEDE”,”GIANTS’ STAR”,
Japanese comic adaptation rights arranged with Spectrum Literary Agency through Japan UNI Agency, Inc.,
Tokyo, Shogakukan Inc.

The Best Artist
Kenji Tsuruta

The Best Nonfiction
Offprint of “The Present and Future of CGM: The World Opened up by Hatsune Miku, Nico Nico Douga, and PIAPRO” from the May 2012 issue of IPSJ Magazine
Guest Editor: Masataka Goto (AIST)
Publisher: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Masataka Goto

“Free” Section
iPS cells
CiRA ?Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University

Seiun Award Translation Nominees

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The Seiun Award nominees for works in translation from 2011 have been announced.

The title of the work is followed by the names of the author and the translator(s).

TRANSLATED LONG STORY
The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi, tr. Kazue Tanaka & Hiroshi Kaneko
The City & the City, China Tom Mieville, tr. Masamichi Higurashi
The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson, tr. Takeshi Mogi
Dhalgren, Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., tr. Yuzuru Okubo
Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, tr. Hiroshi Kaneko
Millennium People, James Graham Ballard, tr. Mamoru Masuda

TRANSLATED SHORT STORY
“The Pelican Bar”, Karen Joy Fowler, tr. Wataru Ishigame
“The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, Ted Chiang, tr. Nozomi Ohmori
“The Gambler”, Paolo Bacigalupi, tr. Yoshimichi Furusawa
“The People of Sand and Slag”, Paolo Bacigalupi, tr. Naoya Nakahara
“Troika”, Alastair Reynolds, tr. Naoya Nakahara
“The Little Goddess”, Ian McDonald, tr. Hitomi Nakamura

The other Seiun Award categories are Japanese Long Story, Japanese Short Story, Media (similar to “Dramatic Presentation of Hugo),Comic (or Manga), Art (actually, to artist), Nonfiction (writings), Free (Non-genre). The source provided the overseas nominees in those categories:

Media: Real Steel, directed by Shawn Levy; PAUL, directed by Greg Mottola,

Non-Fiction: The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

The winners will be announced at the 51st Japan Science Fiction Convention, Varicon, to be held July 7-8, 2012.