Hayakawa Award
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The Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award is an award chosen annually by the readers of Hayakawa's S-F Magazine
SF Magazine
SF Magazine is a science fiction magazine in Japan. It began publication with the February 1960 issue, which appeared in bookshops at the end of 1959. It was Japan’s first successful prozine.-History:...

for the best Japanese short story, illustrator, and foreign short story. The honor has been awarded since 1989. Most likely this is due to the decline of science-fiction known as the Wintery Age (冬の時代 Fuyu no Jidai) that began in the late 80's.

Foreign Short Story

  • Thomas M. Disch
    Thomas M. Disch
    Thomas Michael Disch was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W...

    , "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" (Translator: Hisashi Asakura) (1989)
  • Mike Resnick
    Mike Resnick
    Michael Diamond Resnick , better known by his published name Mike Resnick, is an American science fiction author. He was executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe.-Biography:...

    , "For I Have Touched the Sky" (Translator: Masayuki Uchida) (1990)
  • John Varley
    John Varley (author)
    John Herbert Varley is an American science fiction author.-Biography:Varley grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, moved to Port Arthur in 1957, and graduated from Nederland High School. He went to Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship because, of the schools that he could afford, it...

    , "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" (Translator: Hisashi Asakura) (1991)
  • John Morressy
    John Morressy
    John Morressy was a science fiction and fantasy writer and a professor of English at Franklin Pierce College.-Del Whitby series:* Starbrat...

    , "Timekeeper" (Translator: Youko Miki) (1992)
  • James Tiptree, Jr. "With Delicate Mad Hands" (Translator: Norio Itou) (1993)
  • Ted Chiang
    Ted Chiang
    Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan.He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near...

    , "Understand" (Translator: Shigeyuki Kude) (1994)
  • Greg Egan
    Greg Egan
    Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...

    , "Learning to Be Me" (Translator: Makoto Yamagashi) (1995)
  • Greg Bear
    Greg Bear
    Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...

    , "Heads" (Translator: Kazuko Onoda) (1996)
  • James Tiptree, Jr. "Come Live With Me" (Translator: Norio Itou) (1997)
  • Greg Egan
    Greg Egan
    Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...

    , "Wang's Carpet" (Translator: Makoto Yamagishi) (1998)
  • Bruce Sterling
    Bruce Sterling
    Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...

    , "Taklamakan" (Translator: Takashi Ogawa) (1999)
  • Greg Egan
    Greg Egan
    Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...

    , "Oceanic" (Translator: Makoto Yamagishi) (2000)
  • Ted Chiang
    Ted Chiang
    Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan.He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near...

    , "Story of Your Life" (Translator: Shigeyuki Kude) (2001)
  • Ted Chiang
    Ted Chiang
    Ted Chiang is an American speculative fiction writer. His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan.He was born in Port Jefferson, New York and graduated from Brown University with a Computer Science degree. He currently works as a technical writer in the software industry and resides in Bellevue, near...

    , "Seventy-Two Letters" (Translator: Youichi Shimada) (2002)
  • Greg Egan
    Greg Egan
    Greg Egan is an Australian science fiction author.Egan published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness...

    , "Mister Volition" (Translator: Makoto Yamagishi) (2003)
  • Connie Willis
    Connie Willis
    Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear...

    , "The Last of the Winnebagos" (Translator: Ohmori Nozomi(2004)
  • Jeffrey Ford
    Jeffrey Ford
    Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales...

    , "The Empire of Ice Cream" (Translator: Tomo Inoue)
  • Bradley Denton
    Bradley Denton
    Bradley Clayton Denton is an American science fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as the black comedy of his novel Blackburn, about a sympathetic serial killer....

    , "Sergeant Chip" (Translator: Naoya Nakahara) (2006)
  • Ian McDonald
    Ian McDonald (author)
    Ian McDonald is a British science fiction novelist, living in Belfast. His themes include nanotechnology, postcyberpunk settings, and the impact of rapid social and technological change on non-Western societies.- Biography :...

    , "The Djinn's Wife" (Translator: Masaya Shimogusu) (2007)

Japanese Short Story

  • Mariko Ōhara
    Mariko Ohara
    is a Japanese science fiction writer. In her teens, she wrote Kirk/Spock fan fiction. She graduated from Seisin University and her writing career began in 1980....

    , "Aqua Planet" (1989)
  • Shinji Kajio
    Shinji Kajio
    is an award winning Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy. The film Yomigaeri is based on a novel by him and he also co-wrote the manga series with Kenji Tsuruta , which was serialized in Monthly Comic Ryu. The manga is based on his short story of the same title, which became the...

    , "Jinii Ni Kansuru Oboegaki" (1990)
  • Mariko Ōhara
    Mariko Ohara
    is a Japanese science fiction writer. In her teens, she wrote Kirk/Spock fan fiction. She graduated from Seisin University and her writing career began in 1980....

    , "Ephemera" (1991)
  • Goro Masaki
    Masaki Goro
    is a Japanese science fiction writer whose career began in 1986. His most famous work is Venus City. In 1993, he won the Seiun Award for Japanese novel. He also won the 1993 Nihon SF Taisho Award.-External links:*...

    , "Venus City"1 (1992)
  • Hiroyuki Morioka
    Hiroyuki Morioka
    is a Japanese science fiction novelist.- Biography :In 1992, his first novel Yume no ki ga tsugeta nara appeared in Hayakawa Shobo 's SF Magazine...

    , "Spice" (1993)
  • Osamu Makino, "Mouse Trap" (1994)
  • Masaki Yamada
    Masaki Yamada
    Masaki Yamada is a Japanese science fiction author. He has won the Nihon SF Taisho Award, the Seiun Award three times, and an award for mystery fiction. His first story was in 1974. His novel Aphrodite was translated into English in 2004...

    , "Dead Soldier's Live" 1 (1995)
  • Jin Kusagami, "Tokyo Kaika Ereki no Karakuri" 1 (1996)
  • Kōshū Tani
    Koshu Tani
    is an award-winning Japanese science fiction writer. He graduated from the Osaka Institute of Technology, and worked as a volunteer in Nepal and the Philippines...

    , "Eriko" 1 (1997)
  • Yasumi Kobayashi
    Yasumi Kobayashi
    Yasumi Kobayashi is a Japanese author of horror and science fiction.His short story "Umi wo Miru Hito" won the Hayakawa Award for best short story in 1998...

    , "Umi wo Miru Hito" (1998)
  • Hōsuke Nojiri
    Hosuke Nojiri
    is a Japanese science fiction writer.After a career as a CAD programmer and game designer, he was first published in 1992, the Creguian game novelization....

    , "Taiyō no Sandatsusha" (1999)
  • Masaya Fujita, "Kiseki no Ishi" (2000)
  • Chōhei Kanbayashi
    Chohei Kanbayashi
    is a Japanese science fiction writer.Born in Niigata, Kambayashi graduated Nagaoka National College of Technology. He debuted in 1979 with the short story "Dance with a Fox", which was an honorable mention of the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest. He quickly became fan favorite, and during 1980s and 1990s,...

    , "Hadae no Shita" 1 (2001)
  • Mizuhito Akiyama
    Mizuhito Akiyama
    is a Seiun Award winning author noted for his science fiction light novel series Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu. He graduated from Hosei University, where he had learned about writing novels in a seminar class under guidance from his teacher, Professor Mizuhito Kanehara, from whom Akiyama took his...

    , "Ore ha Missile" (2002)
  • Issui Ogawa
    Issui Ogawa
    is a Seiun and Hayakawa Award winning writer of more than a dozen novels. His stories are often sociological in nature dealing with issues like disaster and democracy.-Awards:*2004: Seiun Award Best Novel of the Year for...

    , "Rou Voles no Wakusei" (2003)
  • Hiroshi Sakurazaka
    Hiroshi Sakurazaka
    is a Japanese science fiction and fantasy light novel author. He originally began in a career in IT.-Life and career:Sakurazuka made his debut in 2002 at the second Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award with the novel Mahō tsukai no netto, which was later published in December 2003 under the...

    , "Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo" (2004)
  • Hiroshi Yamamoto
    Hiroshi Yamamoto
    is a Japanese athlete who competes in archery.He won a bronze medal in archery at the 1984 Summer Olympics.Yamamoto competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first three elimination matches, advancing to the quarterfinals...

    , "Medousa no Jumon" (2005)
  • Masaya Fujita, "Daafu no Shima" (2006)
  • Keikaku Itō
    Project Itoh
    , real name , was a Japanese science fiction writer.Born in Tokyo and graduated Musashino Art University. While working as a web designer, he wrote Gyakusatsu kikan and submitted to Komatsu Sakyō Award contest in 2006...

    , "The Indifference Engine" (2007)

Illustrator

  • Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1989)
  • Mafuyu Hiroki (1990)
  • Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto, Hitoshi Yoneda (tie) (1991)
  • Mafuyu Hiroki (1992)
  • Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1993)
  • Keinojou Mizutama (1994)
  • Jun Kosaka (1995)
  • Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1996)
  • Hikaru Tanaka (1997)
  • Hikaru Tanaka (1998)
  • Youkou Fujiwara (1999)
  • Kenji Tsuruta
    Kenji Tsuruta
    is a Japanese manga artist. Among his most famous works is the science fiction series Spirit of Wonder, which has been adapted into an anime series and brought him much acclaim.-Profile:...

     (2000)
  • Hikaru Tanaka (2001)
  • Mikio Masuda (2002)
  • Youkou Fujiwara (2003)
  • Aya Takano
    Aya Takano
    Aya Takano was born 1976 in Saitama, Japan. She is a Japanese pop artist associated with the Superflat movement.-Early Life and Influence:...

     (2004)
  • Aya Takano
    Aya Takano
    Aya Takano was born 1976 in Saitama, Japan. She is a Japanese pop artist associated with the Superflat movement.-Early Life and Influence:...

    (2005)
  • Katsukame Hashi (2006)
  • Kashima (2007)
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