Eli K.P. William
@elikpwilliam.com
Sci-fi novelist | Translator of Japanese literature | Bilingual game writing consultant | Essayist | Resident of Japan | SFWA and SFWJ member | Father of a curious young soul | Believer in our potential to change
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Eli K.P. William
@elikpwilliam.com
· Nov 7
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
I've hit upon a great hack in Mac OS for turning any digital document into a PDF with copiable text. Take screenshots of as many pages as you like, select all the resulting files, right click, and choose the quick action to assemble PDF.
#research #efficiency #hack
#research #efficiency #hack
December 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I've hit upon a great hack in Mac OS for turning any digital document into a PDF with copiable text. Take screenshots of as many pages as you like, select all the resulting files, right click, and choose the quick action to assemble PDF.
#research #efficiency #hack
#research #efficiency #hack
fending my way through the Kabukicho swarms on my way to a year end party. Here the sleaze of yesteryear is giving way to hollow tourist glitz. Do you want safety or soul? You can’t have both.
#kabukuicho #tokyo
#kabukuicho #tokyo
December 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
fending my way through the Kabukicho swarms on my way to a year end party. Here the sleaze of yesteryear is giving way to hollow tourist glitz. Do you want safety or soul? You can’t have both.
#kabukuicho #tokyo
#kabukuicho #tokyo
Having a conductor shout ALL ABOARD before a train departs is a tradition I believe is worth restoring and protecting. Together we can make it mandatory at all platforms everywhere. Vote William in 2026 wherever elections are held.
#electionplatform = #trainplatform #tradition
#ALLABOARD
#electionplatform = #trainplatform #tradition
#ALLABOARD
December 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Having a conductor shout ALL ABOARD before a train departs is a tradition I believe is worth restoring and protecting. Together we can make it mandatory at all platforms everywhere. Vote William in 2026 wherever elections are held.
#electionplatform = #trainplatform #tradition
#ALLABOARD
#electionplatform = #trainplatform #tradition
#ALLABOARD
My introduction to Japan was taking an intensive Japanese course at ICU in Mitaka one summer, so walking the wooded paths of the campus to give a talk on world building last month brought back so many memories.
#ICU #Mitaka #Tokyo
#Japanese #study #summerabroad
#wistful #nostalgic #memories
#ICU #Mitaka #Tokyo
#Japanese #study #summerabroad
#wistful #nostalgic #memories
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My introduction to Japan was taking an intensive Japanese course at ICU in Mitaka one summer, so walking the wooded paths of the campus to give a talk on world building last month brought back so many memories.
#ICU #Mitaka #Tokyo
#Japanese #study #summerabroad
#wistful #nostalgic #memories
#ICU #Mitaka #Tokyo
#Japanese #study #summerabroad
#wistful #nostalgic #memories
went to the open house for a new tourist accommodation in my neighbourhood. The owner has converted a kominka into short term lodgings. The rooms seemed spartan and overpriced, but the zen garden and the view were nice.
#openhouse #inn #kominka #shonan #zengarden #view
#japan #tourism #boom
#openhouse #inn #kominka #shonan #zengarden #view
#japan #tourism #boom
December 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
went to the open house for a new tourist accommodation in my neighbourhood. The owner has converted a kominka into short term lodgings. The rooms seemed spartan and overpriced, but the zen garden and the view were nice.
#openhouse #inn #kominka #shonan #zengarden #view
#japan #tourism #boom
#openhouse #inn #kominka #shonan #zengarden #view
#japan #tourism #boom
my new year's resolution for 2026 is to start learning Mandarin.
#newyearsresolution #newyear2026 #studychinese #language
#newyearsresolution #newyear2026 #studychinese #language
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
my new year's resolution for 2026 is to start learning Mandarin.
#newyearsresolution #newyear2026 #studychinese #language
#newyearsresolution #newyear2026 #studychinese #language
To start with a fresh list of media in 2026, I aim to finish off the following works by the end of the year:
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama (audiobook)
Question Authority by Mark Kingwell (book)
Disco Elysium (game)
The Maxx (comic)
#endofyear #cleaninghouse #freshstart
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama (audiobook)
Question Authority by Mark Kingwell (book)
Disco Elysium (game)
The Maxx (comic)
#endofyear #cleaninghouse #freshstart
December 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
To start with a fresh list of media in 2026, I aim to finish off the following works by the end of the year:
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama (audiobook)
Question Authority by Mark Kingwell (book)
Disco Elysium (game)
The Maxx (comic)
#endofyear #cleaninghouse #freshstart
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama (audiobook)
Question Authority by Mark Kingwell (book)
Disco Elysium (game)
The Maxx (comic)
#endofyear #cleaninghouse #freshstart
picked up a copy of this antique 1929 manga by author and artist Nio Mizushima. I'll translate the title for now as Country Bumpkinski in the Big City. It's a comedy, including one section that features a rather silly robopocalypse
#antique #manga #early #showa
#scifi #robot #robopocalypse #comedy
#antique #manga #early #showa
#scifi #robot #robopocalypse #comedy
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I’ve made a new rule for myself that if I open my fediverse accounts I have to write something. That means either I’m going to be logging in to social media even less or firing off tons of comments and posts, either of which outcome is fine with me.
#fediverse #newyear #rule #selfcontrol
#fediverse #newyear #rule #selfcontrol
December 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’ve made a new rule for myself that if I open my fediverse accounts I have to write something. That means either I’m going to be logging in to social media even less or firing off tons of comments and posts, either of which outcome is fine with me.
#fediverse #newyear #rule #selfcontrol
#fediverse #newyear #rule #selfcontrol
Calling all Tokyo writers and wordsmiths!
Come hear my presentation on the craft of world building this Saturday Nov 29 at 4:30 on the ICU campus in Mitaka. Part of the 2025 Japan Writers Conference happening this weekend. Attendance is free!
japanwritersconference.org
#writesky #worldbuilding
Come hear my presentation on the craft of world building this Saturday Nov 29 at 4:30 on the ICU campus in Mitaka. Part of the 2025 Japan Writers Conference happening this weekend. Attendance is free!
japanwritersconference.org
#writesky #worldbuilding
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Calling all Tokyo writers and wordsmiths!
Come hear my presentation on the craft of world building this Saturday Nov 29 at 4:30 on the ICU campus in Mitaka. Part of the 2025 Japan Writers Conference happening this weekend. Attendance is free!
japanwritersconference.org
#writesky #worldbuilding
Come hear my presentation on the craft of world building this Saturday Nov 29 at 4:30 on the ICU campus in Mitaka. Part of the 2025 Japan Writers Conference happening this weekend. Attendance is free!
japanwritersconference.org
#writesky #worldbuilding
Look what just arrived: copies of my latest translation! Released in the UK last week and due for release in the USA this February.
The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, translated by yours truly:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#booksky #newrelease #travelwriting #memoir #translation #japanese
The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, translated by yours truly:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#booksky #newrelease #travelwriting #memoir #translation #japanese
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Look what just arrived: copies of my latest translation! Released in the UK last week and due for release in the USA this February.
The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, translated by yours truly:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#booksky #newrelease #travelwriting #memoir #translation #japanese
The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino, translated by yours truly:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#booksky #newrelease #travelwriting #memoir #translation #japanese
Reposted by Eli K.P. William
It has been ten years since the release of my first novel Cash Crash Jubilee. In the latest edition of Almost Real, I look back on how I wrote the Jubilee Cycle trilogy:
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
Writing the Jubilee Cycle Trilogy
Ten years after my novelistic debut
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It has been ten years since the release of my first novel Cash Crash Jubilee. In the latest edition of Almost Real, I look back on how I wrote the Jubilee Cycle trilogy:
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
Reposted by Eli K.P. William
Really? A book I translated, that I have dreamed of translating for some 15 years, was released today by a good publisher, an imprint of Hachette, and no one on BlueSky cares at all? Not even a little bit?
#booksky #wheresthelove
#booksky #wheresthelove
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Really? A book I translated, that I have dreamed of translating for some 15 years, was released today by a good publisher, an imprint of Hachette, and no one on BlueSky cares at all? Not even a little bit?
#booksky #wheresthelove
#booksky #wheresthelove
Reposted by Eli K.P. William
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Really? A book I translated, that I have dreamed of translating for some 15 years, was released today by a good publisher, an imprint of Hachette, and no one on BlueSky cares at all? Not even a little bit?
#booksky #wheresthelove
#booksky #wheresthelove
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Really? A book I translated, that I have dreamed of translating for some 15 years, was released today by a good publisher, an imprint of Hachette, and no one on BlueSky cares at all? Not even a little bit?
#booksky #wheresthelove
#booksky #wheresthelove
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
At last! My translation of Michio Hoshino's The Traveling Tree is out today in the UK! I’ve been dying to translate this beautiful book for more than 15 years.
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
Read my thoughts on translating it:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Or purchase a copy:
www.amazon.co.uk/Travelling-T...
#japaneseliterature
I never watch sports or turn on videos while writing in the morning, but the Jays in game 7 of the World Series? Brings me back to childhood in Toronto when the Jays won back to back World Series
Nostalgia aside, this tournament is symbolic within the geopolitical context
#BlueJays #WorldSeries
Nostalgia aside, this tournament is symbolic within the geopolitical context
#BlueJays #WorldSeries
November 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I never watch sports or turn on videos while writing in the morning, but the Jays in game 7 of the World Series? Brings me back to childhood in Toronto when the Jays won back to back World Series
Nostalgia aside, this tournament is symbolic within the geopolitical context
#BlueJays #WorldSeries
Nostalgia aside, this tournament is symbolic within the geopolitical context
#BlueJays #WorldSeries
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To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
It has been ten years since the release of my first novel Cash Crash Jubilee. In the latest edition of Almost Real, I look back on how I wrote the Jubilee Cycle trilogy:
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
Writing the Jubilee Cycle Trilogy
Ten years after my novelistic debut
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It has been ten years since the release of my first novel Cash Crash Jubilee. In the latest edition of Almost Real, I look back on how I wrote the Jubilee Cycle trilogy:
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
open.substack.com/pub/elikpwil...
#writingcraft #writing #creativeprocess
#dystopian #cyberpunk #sciencefiction #scifi #trilogy
To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
To select stories for the anthology of classic Japanese sci-fi I'm editing for MIT Press, I started reading this 1971 collection of pre-WWII short stories
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
Today I read the 1925 short story The Man Traveling With the Brocade Portrait (押絵と旅する男) by Edogawa Ranpo
#japanese #classic #scifi #anthology
me giving my first reading in the Japanese language last week.
As part of a Kamakura Poetry Festival event held last Wednesday, I read the opening to my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa.
#scifi
As part of a Kamakura Poetry Festival event held last Wednesday, I read the opening to my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa.
#scifi
October 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
me giving my first reading in the Japanese language last week.
As part of a Kamakura Poetry Festival event held last Wednesday, I read the opening to my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa.
#scifi
As part of a Kamakura Poetry Festival event held last Wednesday, I read the opening to my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa.
#scifi
明日、Kamakura Poetry Festival「詩をフェス」遊星企画の朗読会・ライブに急遽、参加することになりました！ 拙作「フォトボマー」（念のためこれは詩ではなくSFの短編小説）を朗読します。スミカ探求舎にて1:30より開催。入場料は無料。
明日、北鎌倉に来れる方は是非！
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明日、北鎌倉に来れる方は是非！
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October 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
明日、Kamakura Poetry Festival「詩をフェス」遊星企画の朗読会・ライブに急遽、参加することになりました！ 拙作「フォトボマー」（念のためこれは詩ではなくSFの短編小説）を朗読します。スミカ探求舎にて1:30より開催。入場料は無料。
明日、北鎌倉に来れる方は是非！
www.instagram.com/p/DQBvJmWEQje/
明日、北鎌倉に来れる方は是非！
www.instagram.com/p/DQBvJmWEQje/
the door that opens to nowhere? Oh that old thing. It's just a gateway to the sky. You step out and whoosh, the city is a toy model far beneath your feet. We painted it saffron after the hue that often spangles clouds at sunset in fall. One glance and you recall the wistful beauty of autumn twilight
October 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
the door that opens to nowhere? Oh that old thing. It's just a gateway to the sky. You step out and whoosh, the city is a toy model far beneath your feet. We painted it saffron after the hue that often spangles clouds at sunset in fall. One glance and you recall the wistful beauty of autumn twilight