The 57th Japan Science Fiction Convention (Nihon SF Taikai) revealed the list of nominees for the 49th Seiun Awards earlier this month.
Yoshiki Tanaka’s 16-volume Arslan Senki (The Heroic Legend of Arslan) series received a nomination in the Japanese Long Story category.
Like the Hugo Awards, the Seiun Awards honor all forms of speculative fiction — including but not limited to science fiction — and related materials.
The attendees of the 57th Japan Science Fiction Convention at “Juracon” in Gunma will vote on the winners, and the staff will announce the winners at the convention on July 21. “Seiun Shō” literally translates to “nebula awards,” but the Japan SF Con’s Seiun Awards are more akin to the Hugo Awards, in that the attendees of each respective convention vote on the winners.