Issui Ogawa

Issui Ogawa (小川 一水 Ogawa Issui, born 1975) 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.^[1]

Awards

• 2004: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for Dai Roku Tairiku (第六大陸)
• 2006: Seiun Award Best Japanese Short Story of the Year for "Tadayotta Otoko" (漂った男)
• 2011: Seiun Award Best Japanese Short Story of the Year for "Arisuma ō no aishita mamono" (アリスマ王の愛した魔物)
• 2014: Seiun Award Best Japanese Novel of the Year for Kororogi dake kara mokusei toroya e (コロロギ岳から木星トロヤへ)

Bibliography

English translation

• Novels
  • The Lord of the Sands of Time (2009), translation of Toki Suna no Ō (時砂の王) (2007)
  • The Next Continent (2010), translation of Dai roku tairiku (第六大陸) (2003)
• Short stories
  • "Old Vohl's Planet" (2003) translation by Jim Hubbert in Speculative Japan 2: The Old Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Kurodahan Press, 2011)^[2]
  • "Golden Bread" (The Future is Japanese, Viz Media, Haikasoru, 2012)
  • "To the Blue Star" (Speculative Japan 3, Kurodahan Press, 2012)^[3]

Notes

1. Japanese fiction project (archived from the original link)
2. Speculative Japan 2 | Kurodahan Press
3. Speculative Japan 3 | Kurodahan Press

External links

• 小川遊水池 - Issui Ogawa's web site
• @ogawaissui on Twitter
• Entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Issui Ogawa at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database