Abstract

By Akutagawa Award Winning author and Japan SF Award nominee Haneko Takayama.

Highschool student “me” and my best friend “her”, we walk around the town full of surveillance cameras, and film the world with our small lenses on our mobiles, as my mother and grandmother and great grandmother have done in the past. This little clip of the world is used at times for education, for entertainment, at other times as weapons for war, for conflicts and for oppression. A beautifully written story of generations of women that record the world through lenses - fictional, but reflecting the history of films and movies.

Finalist for the 42th Japan SF Award.

Author’s Information

Born in Toyama Prefecture. “UNKNOWN DOG OF NOBODY” was selected as a Notable work in the 1st Sogen SF Short Story Award, and was published with other works as “UNKNOWN DOG OF NOBODY AND OTHERS” which was nominated for the 36th Japan SF Award in 2014. Winner of the 2nd Fumiko Hayashi Award with “TAIYO NO SOBA NO SHIMA” in 2016. Takayama was nominated twice for the Akutagawa Award before winning the 163th Akutagawa Award with “SHURI NO UMA” in 2020.