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Self Reference ENGINE Epub ☆ Self Reference eBook 円城 塔 Hepburn Enjō Tō pen name born September 15 1972 is a Japanese author His works are usually literary fiction speculative fiction or science fictionBorn in 1972 in Sapporo he graduated from the physics department of Tohoku University then went on to the graduate school at University of Tokyo and received PhD for a mathematical physical study on the natural languages He worked as a post doc researcher at several research institutes for seven years then abandoned the academic career in 2007 and found a programmer job at a software firm resigns in 2008 to become a full time writerIn 2006 he submitted Self Reference ENGINE to a science fiction novel contest Komatsu Sakyō Award Although it did not win the award none did in this year it was published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007 At almost same time his short story Obu za bēsbōru Of The Baseball won the contest of literary magazine Bungakukai which became his debut in literary fiction3His literary fictions are often dense with allusions Labyrinthine annotations were added to Uyūshitan when it was published in book form in 2009 where there were none when published initially in literary magazine Often his science fiction works take motif from mathematics The narrator of Boy's Surface 2007 is a morphism and the title is a reference to a geometrical notion In Moonshine 2009 natural numbers are sentient through a savant's mind's eye in a field of the monster groupProject Itoh's Genocidal Organ was also a finalist of Komatsu Sakyō Award contest and published from Hayakawa Shobō in 2007 along with Enjoe's Self Reference ENGINE Since then they often appeared together at science fiction conventions and interviews and collaborated in a few works until Itoh's death of cancer in 2009At the press conference after the announcement of Enjoe's Akutagawa Prize in January 2012 he revealed the plan to complete Itoh's unfinished novel Shisha no teikoku It was published in August 2012 and received the Special Award of Nihon SF Taisho