Courtesy of translator, Masayuki Uchida, here is the list of foreign works nominated for this year's Seiun Awards, Japan's top honor in SF. The awards are for works first published in Japanese translation in 1999; this is the Japanese award frequently presented at the Worldcon as part of the Hugo ceremony.

FOREIGN NOVELS:

Permutation City (Greg Egan)
Quarantine (Greg Egan)
Forever Peace (Joe Haldeman)
The Immortality Option (James P. Hogan)
Kirinyaga (Mike Resnick)
Starplex (Robert J. Sawyer)
Endymion & The Rise of Endymion (Dan Simmons)
One of Us (Michael Marshall Smith)

Aurora in Four Voices (Catherine Asaro)
War Birds (Stephen Baxter)
The Cutie (Greg Egan) Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream (James Alan Gardner)
Doing the Circuit (Alexander Jablokov)
Cosmic Expense Account (C. M. Kornbluth)
"...Where Angels Fear to Tread" (Allen Steele)
Taklamakan (Bruce Sterling)
Out of the Everywhere (James Tiptree, Jr.)