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Guin Saga, Summer Wars, Pluto Win at Japan Sci-Fi Con

The 49th Japan Science Fiction Convention (Nihon SF Taikai or Japan SF Con/2010 Tokon 10) gave Seiun Awards to the ed away on January 16.

"Seiun Shō" literally translates to "nebula awards," but the Japan SF Con's Seiun Awards are more akin to Worldcon's Hugo Awards, in that the attendees of each respective convention vote on the winners. There is another set of awards, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan's Nihon SF Taishō honors, that are the rough Japanese equivalent of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Awards.

received a special posthumous award in last year's 30th Nihon SF Taishō Awards.

It was at 1981's Daicon III and 1983's Daicon IV (the local names for those year's SF Cons) that a group of artists showcased their talents with two intricate opening animation shorts — most of those artists later became the studio Gainax.

Japanese Long Fiction

The Guin Saga
Kaoru Kurimoto
Hayakawa Publishing
Released in North America by Vertical

Japanese Short Fiction

"Interview with the Columns of Clouds"
Hirotaka Kawade Shobo Shinsha

Translated Long Fiction

The Last Colony
John Scalzi
Translated by Masayuki Uchida
Hayakawa Publishing
Released in North America by Tor Books

Translated Short Fiction

"Dark Integers"
Greg Egan
Translated by Makoto Yamagishi
Hayakawa Publishing
Released in North America by Far Territories

Media

Summer Wars
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Madhouse
To be Funimation

Comic

Pluto
Naoki Urasawa & Osamu Tezuka, co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki
Surervised by Viz Media

Art

Naoyuki Katō

Nonfiction

The Intellectual History of Japanese SF 1857-1975
by Yasuo Nagayama
Kawade Shobo Shinsha,Publishers

Free Entry

Gundam 30th Anniversary Project Real G: The Statue of Gundam
Produced by Sunrise
Nomura Co., Ltd.

Special Award

Takumi Shibano
Translator, author, magazine editor, "science-fiction researcher"
1926-2010



Source: animeanime.jp