星雲賞
In 1981, "Inherit the Stars" won the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Language Novel of the Year and "Entoverse" went on to win the 1994 Seiun Award in the same category. A manga adaptation by Yukinobu Hoshino was published in 2011–2012 in Japan, which won the Seiun Award of Comics category in 2013.