EPISODE · Aug 10, 2016 · 1H 6M
StarShipSofa No 447 Taiyo Fuji and Jim Hubbert
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Week 4 of Translations Special Month! This story was originally written in Japanese and has been translated into English.Main Fiction: "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act" by Taiyo Fuji, translated by Jim Hubbert.Originally published in Lightspeed, Issue #62. Audio produced by Sky Boat Media.Taiyo Fujii was born in Amami Oshima Island—that is, between Kyushu and Okinawa. He has worked in stage design, desktop publishing, exhibition graphic design, and software development. In 2012, Fujii self-published Gene Mapper serially in a digital format of his own design, and it became Amazon.co.jp’s number one Kindle bestseller of that year. The novel was revised and republished in both print and digital as Gene Mapper—full build— by Hayakawa Publishing in 2013 and was nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award and the Seiun Award. His second novel, Orbital Cloud, won the 2014 Nihon SF Taisho Award and took first prize in the “Best SF of 2014” in SF Magazine. His recent works include Underground Market and...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Week 4 of Translations Special Month! This story was originally written in Japanese and has been translated into English.Main Fiction: "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act" by Taiyo Fuji, translated by Jim Hubbert.Originally published in Lightspeed, Issue #62. Audio produced by Sky Boat Media.Taiyo Fujii was born in Amami Oshima Island—that is, between Kyushu and Okinawa. He has worked in stage design, desktop publishing, exhibition graphic design, and software development. In 2012, Fujii self-published Gene Mapper serially in a digital format of his own design, and it became Amazon.co.jp’s number one Kindle bestseller of that year. The novel was revised and republished in both print and digital as Gene Mapper—full build— by Hayakawa Publishing in 2013 and was nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award and the Seiun Award. His second novel, Orbital Cloud, won the 2014 Nihon SF Taisho Award and took first prize in the “Best SF of 2014” in SF Magazine. His recent works include Underground Market and...Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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StarShipSofa No 447 Taiyo Fuji and Jim Hubbert
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