Sci-fi Novelist Hiroshi Yamamoto Dies at 68

The official website of publisher Tokyo Sogensha announced on Thursday that sci-fi novelist Hiroshi Yamamoto died on March 29 due to aspiration pneumonia.

In the afterword, Yamamoto enjoined readers to treat the novel as his “last will and testament” as a “hard sci-fi writer.”

Yamamoto’s daughter also posted an announcement on his X (formerly Twitter) account on Thursday.