![]() ![]() Like Kurimoto, Tanaka's subsequent career has been bogglingly prolific, with multiple strands of mysteries, historicals, fantasies and sf, as well as several "managed" works in which he takes an overseer's credit on Shared-World anthologies or translations of Chinese classical texts. It won a prize from Gen'eijo, a relatively short-lived literary magazine that similarly anointed a young Kaoru Kurimoto. ![]() " (1978 in anth 1998) as by Yutaka Rinoie, his first sf work of note, focuses on the fourth scientific expedition to an Earthlike colony world orbiting Capella, and the mysteries surrounding the loss of contact with the three previous missions. He went on to earn a doctorate, also in literature, with a 1985 thesis on the Japanese author Rohan Kōda (1867-1947). While studying for his bachelor's degree in Japanese literature at Gakushūin University, Tokyo, his first published story "Kansenchin no Satsujin" (1972 Gakushūin Daigaku Hojinkai Zasshi) was a mystery set in China's Tang dynasty, indicating an early interest in period settings and the beginnings of a parallel career in straightforward historicals and historical fantasies. ![]() ![]() (1952- ) Japanese author of Space Opera, and Heroic Fantasy, initially as by Yutaka Rinoie, subsequently adopting a writing name that was pronounced the same as his birth name, albeit utilizing different characters. ![]()
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