Eli K.P. William
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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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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
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
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
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
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
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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
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
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
#photography #exhibition #shinjuku #tokyo
September 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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
#photography #exhibition #shinjuku #tokyo
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
#sumie #inkpainting #painting
#scifi #manga #tokyo
September 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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
#speculative #fiction #anthology
September 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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
#speculative #fiction #anthology
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
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
September 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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
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
September 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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
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
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
#tokyo #station
#undergound #artgallery #exhibition #space
#art #visualart
September 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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
#tokyo #station
#undergound #artgallery #exhibition #space
#art #visualart
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
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
September 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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
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
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
#extinction
September 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
#extinction
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
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
September 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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
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
Tokyo thunderstorm from train window
shot Sep 11, 2025
#tokyo #thunderstorm #downpour
#train #photography
#impressionism
shot Sep 11, 2025
#tokyo #thunderstorm #downpour
#train #photography
#impressionism
September 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Tokyo thunderstorm from train window
shot Sep 11, 2025
#tokyo #thunderstorm #downpour
#train #photography
#impressionism
shot Sep 11, 2025
#tokyo #thunderstorm #downpour
#train #photography
#impressionism
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
#tokyo #Lightning #Storm
September 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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
#tokyo #Lightning #Storm
received (c/o Yurika Miyano) this omnibus containing 3 classic SF novels, reproduced as serialized in SF Magazine
The End of the Endless Stream by Sakyo Komatsu (Feb-Nov 1965)
Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion nights by Ryu Mitsuse (1965-'66)
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi (1979 to 1984)
The End of the Endless Stream by Sakyo Komatsu (Feb-Nov 1965)
Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion nights by Ryu Mitsuse (1965-'66)
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi (1979 to 1984)
September 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
received (c/o Yurika Miyano) this omnibus containing 3 classic SF novels, reproduced as serialized in SF Magazine
The End of the Endless Stream by Sakyo Komatsu (Feb-Nov 1965)
Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion nights by Ryu Mitsuse (1965-'66)
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi (1979 to 1984)
The End of the Endless Stream by Sakyo Komatsu (Feb-Nov 1965)
Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion nights by Ryu Mitsuse (1965-'66)
Yukikaze by Chohei Kambayashi (1979 to 1984)
35 degrees centigrade in Tokyo right now, with dozens of empty restaurants to choose from, and these people are out in the midday sun lining up for hot bowls of ramen.
Those better be some damn good noodles.
#ramen #mania #summertime #tokyo
Those better be some damn good noodles.
#ramen #mania #summertime #tokyo
August 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
35 degrees centigrade in Tokyo right now, with dozens of empty restaurants to choose from, and these people are out in the midday sun lining up for hot bowls of ramen.
Those better be some damn good noodles.
#ramen #mania #summertime #tokyo
Those better be some damn good noodles.
#ramen #mania #summertime #tokyo