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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 it became Amazon.co.jp's number one Kindle bestseller of that 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 the Nihon SF Taisho Award and the Seiun Award. His second novel, Orbital Cloud, won the 2014 Nihon SF Taisho Award, the Seiun Award, and took first prize in the Best SF of 2014 in SF Magazine. His recent works include Underground Market and Bigdata Connect.
This book will thrill and delight readers with its tight plotting and brilliant scientific speculation, and it describes the space enthusiast community with a level of authenticity and passion seldom seen in fiction. One of the best hard SF novels of the year. --Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings and The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Taiyo Fujii has set the bar for all near-future sci-fi thrillers exceptionally high. --B&N Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fujii's science fiction tale is almost entirely low-orbit -- rather than deep space -- but he covers this fascinating terrain well, including all the issues of the objects circling up there, and the dangers of debris. The science -- from the telescope work to the tethers and the functioning of the space hotel -- is quite well-presented, Fujii's fascination with low and high tech and their possibilities fully pays off here. --The Complete Review Fujii challenges us to look into the future and consider how the Earth as a whole will confront space exploration and the possibilities of colonization and resource extraction on other planets. Orbital Cloud is the speculative fiction for the twenty-first-century that I look forward to reading. --Strange Horizons
