is a former professor of electronics at

Tamagawa University is a Japanese university in Machida, Tokyo, Japan. The university consists of 16 departments in seven faculties (undergraduate), as well as seven programs leading to a master's degree and four programs leading to a doctorate degree. Part of the ...

, and a

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author. He graduated

Waseda University , mottoeng = Independence of scholarship , established = 21 October 1882 , type = Private , endowment = , president = Aiji Tanaka , city = Shinjuku , state = Tokyo , country = Japan , students = 47,959 , undergrad = 39,382 , postgrad ...

with a degree in electronics. He made his science fiction debut in 1965. During the 1970s and 1980s he has been an active

hard SF Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell's ''Islands of Space'' in the Novemb ...

advocate. In the first half of the 1980s, he coined the term "Kōseiki Sekai" (光世紀世界, Light Century Universe), defined as the sphere with a diameter of 100

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s (within 50 light years radius from the

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). He also edited ''Kōseiki Seihyō'' (光世紀星表, Light Century Catalogue), the

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of Light Century Universe (738 stars had been known at the time, include the Sun). Also he is known for bibliographies of Japanese science fiction. He received the

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best non-fiction book in 1985 for ''Kōseiki no Sekai'', and

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special award in 1991 for his bibliography works.

Works

Fiction

*''Planet'' series ** ''Haiuei wakusei'' (ハイウェイ惑星 ''Highway Planet'') (1967) ** ''Sutorarudoburugu wakusei'' (ストラルドブルグ惑星 ''Straldburg Planet'') (1975) ** ''Burakkuhōru wakusei'' (ブラックホール惑星 ''Blackhole Planet'') (1979) ** ''Taimumashin wakusei'' (タイムマシン惑星 ''Time Machine Planet'') (1981) ** ''Antena wakusei'' (アンテナ惑星 ''Antenna Planet'') (1982) * ''Gazō bunmei'' (画像文明 ''Pictorial Civilization'') (1968) * ''Ikiteiru umi'' (生きている海 ''Living Sea'') (1970) * ''Konpyūtā ga shinda hi'' (コンピュタが死んだ日 ''The Day Computers Died'') (1972) * ''Randau no genshisei—Kōseiki patorōru'' (ランダウの幻視星—光世紀パトロール・シリーズ) (1981) * ''Uchūsen Oromorufugō no bōken'' (宇宙船オロモルフ号の冒険 ''The Voyage of the Spaceship Holomorph'') (1982)

Non-fiction

* ''Kōseiki no Sekai'' (光世紀の世界 ''Light Century World'') (1984; revised 1985) * ''Ginga ryokō to tokushu soutaisei riron'' (銀河旅行と特殊相対性理論 ''Galactic Travel and the Special Theory of Relativity'') (1984) * ''Ginga ryokō to ippan soutaisei riron'' (銀河旅行と一般相対性理論 ''Galactic Travel and the General Theory of Relativity'') (1986) * ''Kidō erebētā'' (軌道エレベータ ''Orbital Elevator'') (co-written with

Ryūichi Kaneko was a photography historian and critic, photobook collector, and curator. He also worked as a monk at the Shōgyōin () temple in the Taitō district of Tokyo while he researched the history of Japanese photography. University days In 1967, ...

) (Shōkabō, 1997; revised, Hayakawa Shobō, 2009)

Bibliographic works

;Index to

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* ''S-F magajin indekkusu 1–100'' (「S-Fマガジン」インデックス (1–100) ''Index to "S-F Magazine" 1–100'') (1967; supplemented 1968; revised 1980) * ''S-F magajin indekkusu 101–170'' (「S-Fマガジン」インデックス (101–170)) (1973) * ''S-F magajin indekkusu 101–200'' (「S-Fマガジン」インデックス (101–200)) (1981) * ''S-F magajin indekkusu 201–300 fikushon hen'' (「S-Fマガジン」インデックス 201–300 フィクション篇) (1985) ;SF Grand Annotated Catalogue * ''S-F tosho kaisetsu sōmokuroku shōwa 20nen 9gatsu - shōwa 43nen 8gatsu'' (S-F図書解説総目録　昭和20年9月ー昭和43年8月 ''SF Grand Annotated Catalogue September 1945 - August 1968'') (1969; revised 1970) * ''Zoku S-F tosho kaisetsu sōmokuroku shōwa 43nen 9gatsu – shōwa 46nen 3gatsu'' (S-F図書解説総目録　昭和43年9月–46年3月) (1971) * ''S-F tosho kaisetsu sōmokuroku (1946-1970) zōho kaiteiban jō'' (S-F図書解説総目録(1946-1970)増補改定版　上) (1982) * ''S-F tosho kaisetsu sōmokuroku (1971-1980) jō'' (S-F図書解説総目録 1971-1980 上) (1989) * ''S-F tosho kaisetsu sōmokuroku (1971-1980) ge'' (S-F図書解説総目録 1971-1980 下) (1991) * ''S-F tosho kaisetsu sōmokuroku (1946-1970) zōho kaiteiban ge'' (S-F図書解説総目録(1946-1970)増補改定版下) (1996)

Notes

References

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External links

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