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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 3h

Mount Fuji, that exalted iconic volcano, up close and personal.

I stayed in the sleepy town of Fujiyoshida for the first time this week. Crisp fresh air. Rivers so clear you feel like you could breathe them. The symbol of a nation always looming on the horizon.

#MountFuji #Fujiyoshida #Japan ＃富士山

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 3d

the crashing surf of Shimoda. My first and maybe only vacation of the year. Why did I never take the train to this rough and golden coast sooner?

#shimoda #izu #japan
#beach #holiday

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 7d

In the third instalment of my Japanese Sci-fi History newsletter, I conclude my two part article on the connection between SF and The Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970,

open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...

#worldexpo #osaka #expo70
#japanese #scifi #history

JSF#3: The Sci-fi Creators Who Made Osaka Expo ’70 (part 2/2)

How Japanese SF Critiqued Asia's First World's Fair

open.substack.com

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 7d

In the third instalment of my Japanese Sci-fi History newsletter, I conclude my two part article on the connection between SF and The Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970,

open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...

#worldexpo #osaka #expo70
#japanese #scifi #history

JSF#3: The Sci-fi Creators Who Made Osaka Expo ’70 (part 2/2)

How Japanese SF Critiqued Asia's First World's Fair

open.substack.com

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 9d

more of these AI-generated author "offers" in my inbox. Funny that I'm supposed to speak at two different book clubs today. (Like the readers don't need any time at all to read the book?)
And no, I do not have a novel titled "Crossing."

#AI #scams #spam #phishing

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 10d

my public email address has received all kinds of scam, phishing, and spam for years, but I've recently been drowning in personalized AI generated "offers" for authors. Anyone else getting this?

#AI #slop #scams

Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 12d

went to the event space at Kitamura Camera in Shinjuku to see an exhibition of the photography of @cadzqui.bsky.social

#photography #exhibition #shinjuku #tokyo

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 14d

some beautiful sumi-e by manga artist and painter Gajo Sakamoto, on display at the Tamashin Art Museum near Tokyo's Tachikawa station. Part of the current exhibit on Sakamoto's best known creation, Tank Tankuro, the first sci-fi manga in history

#sumie #inkpainting #painting
#scifi #manga #tokyo

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 18d

almost half way through Dark Matter (2000), the first anthology in history of only speculative fiction stories by black authors. Just finished some fine short stories by Samuel Delany and Nalo Hopkinson. Next up is Octavia Butler.

#speculative #fiction #anthology

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 21d

Here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language!

My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”（Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher.

#Japanese #scifi

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 20d

Thanks!

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 20d

Thank you!

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 21d

Here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language!

My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”（Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher.

#Japanese #scifi

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 22d

received this pamphlet (c/o Yurika Miyano) commemorating a quarter century since the passing of one of Japan’s first generation SF authors, Ryu Mitsuse (1928-1999)

He is best known for his 1967 novel Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights (百億の昼と千億の夜)

#classic #japanese #speculativefiction

Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 23d

some surprisingly edgy art displayed in the Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, a passageway that connects Tokyo Station to Marunouchi Building. The exhibition is part of Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi.

#tokyo #station
#undergound #artgallery #exhibition #space
#art #visualart

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 24d

third floor lobby of the Japan Publishers' Club Building in Jinbocho, Tokyo, the heart of the nation’s publishing industry.

Visited today when I stopped by Hayakawa Festival, an 80th anniversary celebration for Japan's oldest and largest sci-fi publisher.

#book #publishing #japan #tokyo #jinbocho

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 25d

a vanished being stares you in the face, a species of wolf over the brink of extinction. It bares its teeth from some infernal display booth reserved for the annihilated, raring to defend its existence, too late.

#extinction

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 27d

this morning I began editing the galley for The Traveling Tree. Two more weeks and this book will be ready for press!

The Traveling Tree (旅をする木) by Michio Hoshino, translated by yours truly, due for UK release on Nov 6:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...

#japanese #literarytranslation #editing

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 27d

This could be game changing. With evidence that certain energy companies caused specific disasters, maybe we can finally sue them out of existence.

#climatechange #science
#liability #transformation

Heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies

Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

www.nature.com

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28d

Tokyo thunderstorm from train window

shot Sep 11, 2025

#tokyo #thunderstorm #downpour
#train #photography
#impressionism

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28d

A true torrent. Rivers were flooding. Cars were stuck in puddles over a meter high. A bent tree stopped my train for an hour. My phone buzzed with landslide warnings.

Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28d

I’m caught in it too! The river must be falling from the sky.

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · 28d

the rapid train back from Shinjuku has been drawn to a crawl by a wild thunder storm. There is no lag between the flashes and the thunder. Lightning striking all around us.

#tokyo #Lightning #Storm

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · Sep 8

ブラッシュアップがまだまだ必要だけど、とりあえずホームページの日本語版更新完了！

elikpwilliam.com/ja/about/

#ホームページ　#リニューアル
#小説家　#翻訳家　#シナリオライター

プロフィール | Eli K.P. William（イーライ・K・P・ウィリアム）

近未来の東京を舞台にしたSF三部作『The Jubilee Cycle』を執筆した作家Eli K.P. William（イーライ・K・P・ウィリアム）のプロフィール。生まれ、学歴、来日や移住、小説家デビュー、執筆歴、翻訳歴などを時系列順に紹介。

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Eli K.P. William @elikpwilliam.com · Sep 8

What in the world...

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