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was a Japanese-born American astrophysicist who also wrote
science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...
under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited '' Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master'' (1992), and contributed to '' New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988—Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue'' (1988), after his friend, writer Robert A. Heinlein, died in 1988. Kondo also edited the non-fiction book '' Interstellar Travel & Multi-Generational Space Ships'', part of the Apogee Books Space Series. For his work in the NASA Space program, Kondo was awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement Yoji Kondo was also an accomplished teacher of Shodokan Aikido and
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.Interview with Dr. Kondo ''Aiki News'', #87, 1991


Bibliography

* ''Act of God'', Eric Kotani & John Maddox Roberts, Baen Books (1985
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March 2013). * '' The Island Worlds'', E. Kotani & J.M. Roberts, Baen (1987
Baen e-book
March 2013). * ''Between the Stars'', E. Kotani & J.M. Roberts, Baen (1988
Baen e-book
April 2013). * ''Delta Pavonis'', E. Kotani & J.M. Roberts, Baen Books (1990
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March 2013). * ''Supernova'', R. M. Allen & E. Kotani, Avon Books (1991). * ''Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master'', ed. Y. Kondo, Tor Books (1992). (It became a Book of the Month selection and made the national best-seller list of the ''
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''.) * ''Death of a Neutron Star'', E. Kotani, Pocket Books (1999). * ''Legacy of Prometheus'', E. Kotani & J. M. Roberts, Tom Doherty Associates (Tor Books) (2000). * Kotani's short story, "The Edgeworld", is contained in the Martin Greenberg-John Helfer anthology ''Star Colonies'', DAW Books (2000). * ''Orbital Station Fear'', E. Kotani, published in Teknobook anthology, ''Space Stations'' (2004).


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Eric Kotani / Yoji Kondo website
* 1933 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Japanese novelists 21st-century Japanese novelists Japanese science fiction writers 20th-century Japanese astronomers Japanese astrophysicists Scientists from Ibaraki Prefecture {{sf-writer-stub