Koshu TaniTani Kōshū graduated in civil engineering and worked in the field for many years, but later joined JICA, volunteering his services to construction in Nepal. His first SF sale was in 1979. In addition to hard SF, mostly in his evolving futur history, he also pens thrillers, often based on his mountaineering experiences in the Himalayas and elsewhere. He won the 15th Nitta Jirō Literary Prize in 1996 for Shirakimine no otoko (Man of the Snowcapped Peaks). Read More Read Less