# Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award

The Hayakawa's S-F Magazine Reader's Award (SFマガジン読者賞, Esuefu Magajin Dokusha Shō) is an annual poll conducted by Hayakawa's S-F Magazine for the best Japanese short story, illustrator, and foreign short story, voted by the readers from their issues in the previous year. The honor has been awarded since 1989.

## Award winners
### Foreign Short Story

* Thomas M. Disch, "The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars" (Translator: Hisashi Asakura) (1989)
* Mike Resnick, "For I Have Touched the Sky" (Translator: Masayuki Uchida) (1990)
* John Varley, "Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo" (Translator: Hisashi Asakura) (1991)
* John Morressy, "Timekeeper" (Translator: Youko Miki) (1992)
* James Tiptree, Jr. "With Delicate Mad Hands" (Translator: Norio Itou) (1993)
* Ted Chiang, "Understand" (Translator: Shigeyuki Kude) (1994)
* Greg Egan, "Learning to Be Me" (Translator: Makoto Yamagashi) (1995)
* Greg Bear, "Heads" (Translator: Kazuko Onoda) (1996)
* James Tiptree, Jr. "Come Live With Me" (Translator: Norio Itou) (1997)
* Greg Egan, "Wang's Carpet" (Translator: Makoto Yamagishi) (1998)
* Bruce Sterling, "Taklamakan" (Translator: Takashi Ogawa) (1999)
* Greg Egan, "Oceanic" (Translator: Makoto Yamagishi) (2000)
* Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life" (Translator: Shigeyuki Kude) (2001)
* Ted Chiang, "Seventy-Two Letters" (Translator: Youichi Shimada) (2002)
* Greg Egan, "Mister Volition" (Translator: Makoto Yamagishi) (2003)
* Connie Willis, "The Last of the Winnebagos" (Translator: Ohmori Nozomi) (2004)
* Jeffrey Ford, "The Empire of Ice Cream" (Translator: Tomo Inoue) (2005)
* Bradley Denton, "Sergeant Chip" (Translator: Naoya Nakahara) (2006)
* Ian McDonald, "The Djinn's Wife" (Translator: Masaya Shimokusu) (2007)

### Japanese Short Story

* Mariko Ōhara, "Aqua Planet" (1989)
* Shinji Kajio, "Jinii Ni Kansuru Oboegaki" (1990)
* Mariko Ōhara, "Ephemera" (1991)
* Goro Masaki, "Venus City" (1992)
* Hiroyuki Morioka, "Spice" (1993)
* Osamu Makino, "Mouse Trap" (1994)
* Masaki Yamada, "Dead Soldier's Live" (1995)
* Jin Kusagami, "Tokyo Kaika Ereki no Karakuri" (1996)
* Kōshū Tani, "Eriko" $^1$ (1997)
* Yasumi Kobayashi, "Umi o Miru Hito" (1998)
** English translation: "The Man Who Watched the Sea" (Speculative Japan 2, Kurodahan Press, 2011)
* Hōsuke Nojiri, "Taiyō no Sandatsusha" (1999)
** Later rewritten into the novel Usurper of the Sun (English translation was released by Haikasoru.)
* Masaya Fujita, "Kiseki no Ishi" (2000)
* Chōhei Kanbayashi, "Hadae no Shita" (2001)
* Mizuhito Akiyama, "Ore ha Missile" (2002)
* Issui Ogawa, "Rou Voles no Wakusei" (2003)
* Hiroshi Sakurazaka, "Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo" (2004)
** English translation: "The Saitama Chain Saw Massacre" (Hanzai Japan, Haikasoru, 2015)
* Hiroshi Yamamoto, "Medousa no Jumon" (2005)
* Masaya Fujita, "Daafu no Shima" (2006)
* Keikaku Itō, "The Indifference Engine" (2007)

### Illustrator

* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1989)
* Mafuyu Hiroki (1990)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto, Hitoshi Yoneda (tie) (1991)
* Mafuyu Hiroki (1992)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1993)
* Keinojou Mizutama (1994)
* Jun Kosaka (1995)
* Hiroyuki Katou & Keisuke Goto (1996)
* Hikaru Tanaka (1997)
* Hikaru Tanaka (1998)
* Youkou Fujiwara (1999)
* Kenji Tsuruta (2000)
* Hikaru Tanaka (2001)
* Mikio Masuda (2002)
* Youkou Fujiwara (2003)
* Aya Takano (2004)
* Aya Takano (2005)
* Katsukame Hashi (2006)
* Kashima (2007)