Shinichi Hoshi ( 星 新一 / Hoshi Shin'ichi ) - Japanese author - 1926-1997
Wrote mainly short stories, also mystery. Has been translated into English, Korean, Czech and Chinese.
Audiobooks
Hoshi's Parables
consisting of;
The Whimsical Robot Collection
A Secretary on Your Shoulder Collection
A Well-Kept Life Collection
The Ultimate Luxury Collection
The Last Earthling Collection
http://shinichihoshi.com/The_Hoshi_Library/The_Hoshi_Library.html
http://happyhandcity.blogspot.com/2010/01/meddlesome-gods-1-grinning-god.html
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Studio 4°C animated Hoshi's Kimagure Robot (The Capricious Robot) science-fiction short story into a series of 10 2-minute television shorts in 2004.
Plot Summary: A brilliant, extremely eccentric, and slightly crazy scientist toils away his days in his lab, creating robots to carry out different tasks. A robot to grant three wishes, a robot to help you write your diary, a robot that intentionally misbehaves in order to keep its master from becoming bored, the robots are each built for a very specific purpose, and can't really do much of anything else. Luckily for mankind, however, these robots are much more useful than they appear to be at first glance, most of the time, anyway.
NHK's Hoshi Shinichi's Short Shorts television series won the Comedy category in the 37th International Emmy Awards ( 2010 ).. The program used animation, live-action footage, computer graphics, and other visual means to re-enact the short stories.
Wrote mainly short stories, also mystery. Has been translated into English, Korean, Czech and Chinese.
| English title | Japanese title | translator | published | format | publisher | ISBN |
| The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories | Susser, Bernard and Genkawa, Tomoyoshi | 1978 | p/b | Japan Times | none | |
| Love Keys ( story in Twenty Houses of the Zodiac ) | Kegi | Saito, Noriyoshi & Jakubowski, Maxim | ( 1958 ) 1979 | p/b | New English Library | 0450043339 / 9780450043338 |
| Bokko-Chan ( story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1963, The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories and The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories ) | Bokko-Chan | Saito, Noriyoshi | ( 1958 ) 1963 | magazine | Mercury Press, Inc. | none |
| He—y, Come On Ou—t! ! ( story in The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1978 then The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories ) | Oi, dete koi | Jones, Stanleigh | ( 1971 ) 1978 | p/b | Japan Times | none |
| There was a Knock | Nokku no Oto ga | Jones, Stanleigh H. | ( 1972 ) 1984 | p/b | Kodansha International | 4061860038 / 9784061860032 |
| The Capricious Robot | Kimagure robotto ( きまぐれロボット ) | Matthew, Robert | ( 1966 ) 1986 | p/b | Kodansha International Ltd. | 4770022123 / 9784770022127 |
| The Bag of Surprises | Jones, Stanleigh H. | 1989 | p/b | Kodansha International Ltd. | 4770022298 / 9784770022295 | |
| The God of Fortune | Matthew, Robert | 1991 | p/b | Asiapac | 9971985632 | |
| The Cost of Kindness | MacDonald, Marianne & Mori, Torajiro | 1985 | p/b | Philadelphia Centrum | 0910813027 / 9780910813020 | |
| The God With the Laughing Face | Matthew, Robert | 1984 | journal | University of Queensland | none | |
| The Visitor from Space | Matthew, Robert | 1984 | journal | University of Queensland | none | |
| Tales of Japanese science fiction and fantasy | Matthew, Robert | 1981 | journal | University of Queensland | 0867760877 | |
| The Leisure Club | Matthew, Robert? | 1984 | journal | University of Queensland | none |
Audiobooks
Hoshi's Parables
consisting of;
The Whimsical Robot Collection
A Secretary on Your Shoulder Collection
A Well-Kept Life Collection
The Ultimate Luxury Collection
The Last Earthling Collection
http://shinichihoshi.com/The_Hoshi_Library/The_Hoshi_Library.html
http://happyhandcity.blogspot.com/2010/01/meddlesome-gods-1-grinning-god.html
Related media
Studio 4°C animated Hoshi's Kimagure Robot (The Capricious Robot) science-fiction short story into a series of 10 2-minute television shorts in 2004.
Plot Summary: A brilliant, extremely eccentric, and slightly crazy scientist toils away his days in his lab, creating robots to carry out different tasks. A robot to grant three wishes, a robot to help you write your diary, a robot that intentionally misbehaves in order to keep its master from becoming bored, the robots are each built for a very specific purpose, and can't really do much of anything else. Luckily for mankind, however, these robots are much more useful than they appear to be at first glance, most of the time, anyway.
NHK's Hoshi Shinichi's Short Shorts television series won the Comedy category in the 37th International Emmy Awards ( 2010 ).. The program used animation, live-action footage, computer graphics, and other visual means to re-enact the short stories.