2024 Seiun Awards Nominees

Best Translated Novel

• Mickey 7, Edward Ashton, translated by Mayumi Otani (Hayakawa Bunko SF)
• The Greenhouse at the End of the World, Kim Cho-yeop, translated by Kang Bang-hwa (Hayakawa Shobo)
• Civilizations, Laurent Binet, translated by Akemi Tachibana (Tokyo Sogensha)
• Braking Day, Adam Oyebanji, translated by Tsukasa Kaneko (Hayakawa Bunko SF)
• Drunk on All Your Strange New Worlds, Eddie Robson, translated by Ken Mogi (Tokyo Sogensha)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi, translated by Masayuki Uchida (Hayakawa Shobo)
• Iron Widow, Xiran Jay Zhao, translated by Naoya Nakahara (Hayakawa Bunko SF)

Best Translated Short Story

• “Solidity”, Greg Egan, translated by Makoto Yamagishi (Hayakawa SF 12/23)
• “Exo-skeleton Town”, Jeffrey Ford, translated by Akemi Tanigaki (The Last Triangle and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford)
• “Sleepover”, Alistair Reynolds, translated by Naoya Nakahara (Robot Uprising)
• “The Long Way Home”, Fred Saberhagen, translated by Toru Nakamura (Stars, Far Away)
• “Six Months with Only One Elbow”, Jaroslav Veis, translated by Kiyomi Hirano (Czech SF Short Story Collection 2)

There are also nominees in the Japanese Novel, Japanese Short Story, Media, Comic, Artist, Non-Fiction, and “Free” (other) categories. The awards will be presented July 6, 2024 at the 62nd Japan SF Convention in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

For more information, including a complete list of nominees (in Japanese), see the SFFAN’s website.