Fujio Ishihara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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former professor of electronics at Tamagawa University, and a Japanese science fiction author
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Fujio Ishihara
- Fujio Ishihara (????, Ishihara Fujio, born in Tokyo in 1933) is a former professor of electronics at Tamagawa University, and a Japanese science fiction author. He graduated Waseda University 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 advocate.
- In the first half of the 1980s, he coined the term "Koseiki Sekai" (?????, Light Century Universe), defined as the sphere with a diameter of 100 light years (within 50 light years radius from the Sun).
- He also edited Koseiki Seihyo (?????, Light Century Catalogue), the star catalogue 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 Seiun Award best non-fiction book in 1985 for Koseiki no Sekai, and Nihon SF Taisho Award special award in 1991 for his bibliography works.
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