Courtesy of translator Masayuki Uchida, here are the finalists for this year's Seiun Awards ("the Japanese Hugos") in the Foreign categories.

The winners will be announced at the Japan SF Convention 2001, which will be held 18-19 August 2001, in Chiba; the award will be re-presented during the Hugo Award ceremony at this year's World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia.

FOREIGN NOVELS:

• The Positronic Man (Isaac Asimov & Robert silverberg)
• Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card)
• Simulacron-3 (Daniel F. Galouye)
• The Light of Other Days (Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter)
• All Tomorrow's Parties (William Gibson)
• Frameshift (Robert J. Sawyer)
• Darwin's Radio (Greg Bear)
• Barrayar (Lois McMasterBujold)
• The Moon and the Sun (Vonda N. McIntyre)

FOREIGN SHORT STORIES:

• Oceanic (Greg Egan)
• The Hundred Light-Year Diary (Greg Egan)
• The Saliva Tree (Brian W. Aldiss)
• The Sharks of Pentreath (Michael G. Coney)
• Orphans of the Helix (Dan Simmons)
• The Little Magic Shop (Bruce Sterling)
• An Explanation for the Disappearance of the Moon (John Sladek)
• A Separate War (Joe Haldeman)
• ''...For a Single Yesterday'' (George R. R. Martin)

Posted June 7, 2001