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Orbital cloud by taiyo fujii5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The next year I wrote Orbital Cloud, which won the Nihon SF Taisho Award. I quit my job and became a dedicated writer. ![]() That’s when I started to write Gene Mapper, which I self-published. ![]() I started to write in 2011, because the earthquake report (by the Japanese government after the Tōhoku quake, which lead to the Fukushima nuclear disaster) was not scientific. Taiyo, please tell us a bit about yourself.įujii: I’m a Japanese science fiction writer. After all, here are three SF authors from the Eurasian continent, juggling five languages between them. It’s immediately apparent that language will play a key role in our dealings. Instead, we landed in the head librarian’s office with a sizable stack of doughnuts to sustain us. We initially planned to hold it in the library’s auditorium, but an impending strike threw a wrench in the works. Our objective? An in-depth conversation with Chinese rising star Xia Jia, present at the event, about the state of SF in China, its influence in the rest of the world, and our views on the genre. The place is Lyon and the occasion is the AI x SF workshop organized by a group of French scholars, held at the city’s university and municipal library. I only met him half a year earlier, at Worldcon in Dublin, but we quickly became friends and our plans took shape a few months later during dinner in Tokyo. Taiyo Fujii, Japanese science fiction author of Gene Mapper and Orbital Cloud, invited me here. ![]()
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