Taiyo Fujii

Taiyo Fujii was born in Amami Oshima Island—that is, between Kyushu and Okinawa. He worked for stage design, desktop publishing, exhibition graphic design, and software development. In 2012, Fujii self-published Gene Mapper serially in a digital format of his own design, and was Amazon.co.jp’s number one Kindle bestseller of the year. The novel was revised and republished in both print and digital as Gene Mapper - full build- by Hayakawa Publishing in 2013, and was nominated for Japan SF Award and Seiun Award. In next year Fujii won the 36th Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize and Seiun Award with his 2nd novel Orbital Cloud. After leading Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (SFWJ) as 18th chairman, Fujii won 40th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for New Writers with novella collection Hello, World!