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Friday 10 March 2006

Hayakawa's SF Magazine's All-Time Best SF

The results of a poll of SF published in Japan, both in translation and by Japanese writers, were announced in Hayakawa's SF Magazine 2006/4, issue number 600. The poll was conducted among 103 readers and 98 writers and critics. [Hayakawa-Online -- Japanese site.]

Foreign Novel
1. Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
2. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
3. The Door Into Summer, Robert A. Heinlein
4. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
5. Tiger! Tiger!, Alfred Bester
6. Hothouse, Brian W. Aldiss
7. Distress, Greg Egan
8. Hyperion Quadralogy (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion), Dan Simmons
9. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
10. Hyperion two-part work (Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion), Dan Simmons

Foreign Story
1. "Reasons to be Cheerful", Greg Egan
2. "Story of Your Life", Ted Chiang
3. "Fessenden’s Worlds", Edmond Hamilton
4. "The Only Neat Thing to Do", James Tiptree, Jr.
5. "Flowers for Algernon", Daniel Keyes
6. "The Cold Equations", Tom Godwin
7. "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", James Tiptree, Jr.
8. "The Dandelion Girl", Robert F. Young
9. "A Planet Named Shayol", Cordwainer Smith
10. "Rescue Party", Arthur C. Clarke

Foreign Science Fiction Writer
1. Philip K. Dick
2. Greg Egan
3. Arthur C. Clarke
4. James Tiptree, Jr.
5. Stanislaw Lem
6. Robert A. Heinlein
7. Ray Bradbury
8. Cordwainer Smith
9. J.G. Ballard
10. Isaac Asimov

Japanese Novel
1. Hyakuoku no Hiru to Sen-oku no Yoru, Ryu Mitsuse
2. Hateshinaki Nagare no Hate ni, Sakyo Komatsu
3. Yoseiden, Ryo Hanmura
4. Minus Zero, Tadashi Hirose
5. Houseki Dorobou, Masaki Yamada
6. Kami-gari, Masaki Yamada
7. Fukkatsu no Hi, Sakyo Komatsu
8. Musubinoyama Hiroku, Ryo Hanmura
9. Sentou Yousei YUKIKAZE, Chohei Kanbayashi
10. Nippon Chinbotsu (Japan Sinks), Sakyo Komatsu

Japanese Story
1. "O-i Deteko-i", Shin-ichi Hoshi
2. "Katadorareta Chikara"(Kaleidoscape), Hirotaka Tobi
3. "Gorudhiasu no Musubi-me", Sakyo Komatsu
4. "Taiyofu Kouten", Akira Hori
5. "Yume no Sumu Machi", Yuko Yamao
6. "Omoide EMANON", Shinji Kajio
7. "Kotoba Tsukaishi", Chohei Kanbayashi
8. "Taiyo no Sandatsusha", Housuke Nojiri
9. "Mia he Okuru Shinju", Shinji Kajio
10. "Yama no Ue no Kokyo-gaku", Norio Nakai

Japanese Science Fiction Writer
1. Sakyo Komatsu
2. Yasutaka Tsutsui
3. Chohei Kanbayashi
4. Masaki Yamada
5. Shin-ichi Hoshi
6. Ryu Mitsuse
7. Ryo Han-mura
8. Shinji Kajio
9. Koshu Tani
10. Mariko Ohara


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