I was thus very happy to have the opportunity to read an early review copy of Gene Mapper. Although ultimately the novel didn’t win, Gene Mapper was nominated for both a Seiun Award and a Nihon SF Taisho Award (which Fujii would later earn for his second novel Orbital Cloud). In addition to being a bestseller, Gene Mapper has also been critically well-received. It was this edition of Gene Mapper that became the basis for Jim Hubbert’s English translation of the novel released by Viz Media’s speculative fiction imprint Haikasoru in 2015. Fujii subsequently expanded and revised Gene Mapper for release by Hayakawa in 2013.
In 2012, he self-published the novel as an ebook and it became a bestseller, catching the attention of Hayakawa Publishing, a major Japanese publisher of science fiction. Originally, he was employed in design and software development, a background that to some extent informs Gene Mapper.
Gene Mapper is Taiyo Fujii’s debut work as an author.
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