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Itoh's Harmony Novel Nominated for Philip K. Dick Award
posted on by Gia Manry
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust announced on Tuesday that they nominated Project Itoh's novel Harmony for this year's Philip K. Dick Award. The annual award honors "distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States." Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint published the novel in English last year.
Harmony revolves around three girls who rebel against the "totalitarian kindness" of the world government by attempting to kill themselves by starvation — only to grow up and learn that they have to save the world from itself. The novel's author, Satoshi Itōh (working under the pen name Project Itoh), also wrote the novel Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a novelization of the videogame Metal Gear Solid 4.
Itoh passed away in March of 2009, after which Harmony won the 30th Nihon SF Taisho Award from the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of Japan.
Source: Haikasoru
