He would return to similar themes in many later works that mixed a sense of Paranoia with the Shaggy God Story, including Hōseki Dorobō ( 1980), which also won a Seiun.Īmong stand-out early works, Bōsatsu no Chess Game ( 1976) is a Near Future thriller that imagines international espionage, diplomacy and even some petty crimes as part of a vast wargame played by the Japanese military's "neo strategists" (see Games and Sports).
His debut work, the Seiun Award-winning novella "Kamigari" (July 1974 S-F Magazine fixup as Ryūhyō Minzoku 1976), aped Ryō Hanmura in suggesting that the divinities and Supernatural Creatures of ancient Mythology were forerunners of modern Secret Masters and Pariah Elites.
(1950- ) Immensely prolific Japanese crime and sf author, who first became involved in the genre while studying economics at Meiji University.
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