VIZ
MEDIA’S HAIKASORU LITERARY IMPRINT PARTICIPATES AT 73rd WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION AND WELCOMES
AUTHOR
TAIYO
FUJII
Award
Winning Japanese Author Of GENE MAPPER Comes To One Of The Longest Running
Science Fiction Conventions
San
Francisco, CA, August 18, 2015 – VIZ Media’s Haikasoru literary imprint has announced
its participation at Sasquan, the 73rd World
Science Fiction Convention. Haikasoru will welcome the acclaimed Japanese
author Taiyo Fujii as a panel participant, and will host a retail booth (E4) in
the main Dealer’s Room that will offer a wide variety of the imprint’s
acclaimed titles at specially discounted prices.
Happening August 19th-23rd in Spokane, WA, Sasquan 2015 is the site of the 2015
World Science Fiction Convention, also known as “Worldcon,” an annual gathering
of science fiction and fantasy fans. Additional details are available at: www.worldcon.org and http://sasquan.org.
Taiyo
Fujii will be featured in several events throughout the convention and
participating in several panel discussions:
Thursday, August 20th
11:30am
– 12:00pm Taiyo Fujii Reading (Room 303B)
Join the author as he offers a
personal reading of select passages from his works.
Friday, August 21st
11:00am
– 11:45am Self-Publishing – When To Do It, When To Publish
Traditionally (Room 401C)
Taiyo Fujii will be among the
authors featured for a discussion of the whys and whens of self-publishing
versus traditional publishing.
Saturday, August 22nd
11:00am – 11:45am The Future of Publishing (Room Bays 111C)
The
publishing industry has changed dramatically, moving away from traditional
models to online sales, self-publishing and ebooks. What could the next
20 years bring?
2:00pm
– 2:45pm Kaffe Klatche – Taiyo Fujii (Room 202B)
A special insightful discussion with
the author on his work and creative process.
4:00pm
– 4:45pm SpoCon Presents – SubGenre Games
(Grand Ballroom: Salon III)
Are you deep for
dystopia? Crazy for cyberpunk? Soft on steampunk? We're pitting ten
sub-genres against each-other to see which should shed
its "sub" prefix and become a fully-fledged genre
alongside the towers of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Join author
Taiyo Fujii and Haikasoru Editor Nick Mamatas for this unique forum.
5:00pm
– 5:45pm Seiun Awards & Publishing SF in Japan
(Grand Ballroom: Salon III)
Taiyo Fujii will join two other
prominent Japanese authors for a discussion of the famous annual literary award
and the process by which science fiction literature is published in Japan.
Taiyo
Fujii is the author of the mystery thriller, GENE MAPPER, and won a 2014 Nihon SF Taisho
Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan. GENE
MAPPER was Fujii’s first novel and became Amazon Japan’s Number One Kindle bestseller of for 2012 when it was originally
published. The novel was later revised and republished in both print and
digitally in Japan as Gene Mapper – full build – by Hayakawa
Publishing in 2013 and also was nominated for the Nihon SF Taisho Award and the
Seiun Award. Fujii’s second novel, Orbital Cloud, won the 2014 Nihon SF
Taisho Award and also took first prize in the “Best SF of 2014” in SF
Magazine. Fujii’s English-language short fiction debut, the
novelette “Violation of the TrueNet Security Act” appeared in Lightspeed
Magazine in July 2015.
During Sasquan 2015, Haikasoru will offer GENE MAPPER along
with a wide variety of its other titles for purchase with special convention
pricing. Titles to be offered will include: ALL YOU NEED IS
KILL (the novel which inspired the 2014 blockbuster Edge of Tomorrow); BATTLE ROYALE REMASTERED and the BATTLE ROYALE
SLAM BOOK; GENE MAPPER; anthologies PHANTASM JAPAN and THE FUTURE IS JAPANESE
(includes the Hugo Award-winning Ken Liu story, “Mono no Aware”); RED GIRLS and
DENDERA.
For more
information on GENE MAPPER and the Haikasoru imprint, please visit the dedicated
website at www.haikasoru.com.
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