SF! A Booklist of Japanese Science Fiction in Translation

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Anthologies

Kobo Abe

Ken Asamatsu

  • Queen of K’n-yan (translated by Kathleen Taji)

Yoshio Aramaki

Toh Enjoe

Taiyo Fujii

  • Gene Mapper (translated by Jim Hubbert)
  • Orbital Cloud (translated by Timothy Silver)
  • Featured in The Apex Book of World SF 5
  • Featured in Everyone: Worlds without Walls
  • Featured in The Rosetta Archive: Notable Speculative Fiction in Translation

Kaori Fujino

Ryo Hanmura

Jyouji Hayashi

Tobi Hirotaka

Akira Hori

Shinichi Hoshi

  • The God of Fortune (translated by Robert Matthew)
  • The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories (translated by Bernard Susser and Tomoyoshi Genkawa)
  • A Well-Kept Life (translated by Marina Hoshi Whyte and Kim Hines)
  • Voice Net (translated by Marina Hoshi Whyte and Kim Hines)
  • Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
  • Featured in We, Robots

Takuji Ichikawa

Rokuro Inui

Takashi Ishikawa

Chohei Kambayashi

Shigeru Kayama

Hirai Kazumasa

Morio Kita

Yusaku Kitano

Erika Kobayashi

Sakyo Komatsu

  • Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes (translated by Michael Gallagher)
  • Virus: The Day of Resurrection (translated by Daniel Huddleston)
  • Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories

Tensei Kono

  • Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories

Kaoru Kurimoto

Gengen Kusano

Osamu Makino

Taku Mayumura

  • Administrator (translated by Daniel Jackson)
  • Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories

Miyuki Miyabe

  • The Book of Heroes (translated by Alexander O. Smith) and The Gate of Sorrows (translated by Jim Hubbert)
  • Brave Story (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
  • Crossfire (translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki)
  • The Devil’s Whisper (translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi)
  • Ico: Castle in the Mist (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
  • Puppet Master (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
  • Shadow Family (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
  • Featured in Phantasm Japan
  • Much of Miyabe’s other writing might qualify as SF.

Yusuke Miyauchi

Ryu Mitsuse

Tomihiko Morimi

Haruki Murakami

Ryu Murakami

  • Coin Locker Babies (translated by Stephen Snyder)
  • Some of Murakami’s other writing might qualify as SF.

Norio Nakai

Asa Nonami

  • Body (translated by Takami Nieda)

Issui Ogawa

Yoko Ogawa

Mariko Ohara

Shunro Oshikawa

Hiroko Oyamada

Project Ito

  • Genocidal Organ (translated by Edwin Hawkes)
  • Harmony (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
  • Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots (translated by Nathan Collins)
  • Featured in The Future Is Japanese
  • Featured in Phantasm Japan

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

  • All You Need Is Kill (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
  • Featured in Hanzai Japan

Yuya Sato

Hideaki Sena

  • Parasite Eve (translated by Tyran Grillo)

Soji Shimada

Kazufumi Shiraishi

Hiroe Suga

Izumi Suzuki

Koji Suzuki

  • Dark Water (translated by Glynne Walley)
  • Death and the Flower (translated by Maya Robinson and Camellia Nieh)
  • Edge (translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies and Camellia Nieh)
  • Paradise (translated by Tyran Grillo)
  • Promenade of the Gods (translated by Takami Nieda)
  • Ring series:
    • Ring (translated by Robert Rohmer and Glynne Walley)
    • Spiral (translated by Glynne Walley)
    • Loop (translated by Glynne Walley)
    • Birthday (translated by Glynne Walley)
    • S (translated by Greg Gencarello)
  • The Shining Sea (translated by Brian Bergstrom)

Seia Tanabe

Koshu Tani

Yoko Tawada

  • The Emissary (translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
    • Also published as The Last Children of Tokyo
  • Scattered All Over the Earth (translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
  • Some of Tawada’s other writing might qualify as SF.

Dempow Torishima

Aritsune Toyota

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Sayuri Ueda

Juza Unno

  • Fast Forward Japan (translated by J. D. Wisgo)
    • also published as Science: Hopes and Fears (translated by J. D. Wisgo)

Masaki Yamada

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Tetsu Yano

  • Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
  • Featured in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction
  • Featured in Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master
  • Featured in Tales from the Planet Earth: A Novel with Nineteen Authors

Baku Yumemakura

  • The Psyche Diver Trilogy (translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies):
    • Desires of the Flesh
    • The Darkness
    • The Demon’s Cry

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