Saka Komatsu biography
Born in Osaka, in the year he graduated from the State University in Kyoto with a specialization in Italian literature and the work of Luigi Pirandello. As a student, he actively collaborated with small literary magazines, then he was a screenwriter, edited a fantasy magazine in the year. He worked as a correspondent in the nuclear energy edition, the editor of the economic magazine, which controls the factory leading in Radio in Osaka in the year.
In the year he wrote manga under the name Minor Mori, in X printed stories in amateur Japanese NF magazines and collaborated as one of the editors with the Tokyo fiction magazine “SF Magazine”. In the year, for the contest of science fiction works organized by SF Magazine, he wrote his first science fiction story “Peace-Earth”, eventually receiving a prize and a prize in the amount of 5 yen.
The next year, he became the winner of this competition with the story "Memories of an eccentric traveler in time." He published his fantastic works in Japanese magazines and newspapers. In the year, his first science fiction novel “Japanese Apachi”, which was dispersed by a circulation of 50 copies, came out. In this book, the people who remained after the cataclysm in Osaka, who called themselves “Apachi”, who survive in the ruins of a once huge city, focus their energy to destroy mechanisms and iron as a source of evil that happened to them.
However, the most famous work of the writer was the novel “The Flooding of Japan” “Nikhon Timbots”, in the Russian translation - “The Death of the Dragon”, in which Japan dies, leaving to the bottom after earthquakes, tsunami and volcanic eruptions. A small part of the Japanese is forced to look for refuge in other corners of the planet: USA, Australia, Soviet Siberia. The rest of the inevitable death promises.
More than 4 million copies of the book were sold, the novel was translated into many languages and twice filmed, the television series was also removed and anime was created.
In the year, Komatsu received for this work the National Fantastic Prize "Sayun". This was his second “Seyun” of seven: three for stories and four for novels, including the prize of the year for the sequel to “flooding of Japan”, which is called “flooding of Japan, part two,” written together with a colleague of Kosya Tanya. The action in it takes place after the disaster, which is accompanied by global cooling due to huge clouds of volcanic dust and ash that rose into the air.
The book traces the future fate of the world and the Japanese scattered on its various corners. And in the novel “Tokyo’s disappearance”, the capital of Japan becomes inaccessible to the rest of the country due to catastrophic malfunctions in connection and in transport, which in the end did not prevent the rest of the cities and the entire infrastructure of the state. Komatsu's creativity is based on the ideas of the author, who has truly encyclopedic knowledge, about the fate of our planet, preserving peace and environmental balance, extending to the area of solving problems that may arise before people in the future in the vastness of the Universe.
So, in the novel Farewell, Jupiter, the plot is built on the implementation of a grandiose project to turn the giant of our system into a small sun to prepare the rest of the planets for colonization. In the “Gallery into Non-Basing”, using a specially designed spacecraft, earthlings explore the mysterious SS super-structure, which is a cylinder of 2 light years long and 1.2 light years with a diameter of 1.2 light years, which appeared in 6 light years from our planet.
In the year, he took an active part in the organization of the World Exhibition in the Prefecture Osaka, in the framework of which he held a representative international symposium in science fiction, which gathered fantasy writers, Great Britain, the USSR and other countries gathered in Tokyo. In the year, he worked as a technical consultant to the Japanese composer of electronic music during his concerts in Austria Linz.
Sakeo Komatsu for a long time was in good, very close relations with the legendary artist of Rakugo Katsur Baytyo, acted as a presenter in television programs about Mayan civilizations, the development of space, astronomy, etc. He receives an honorary doctoral degree at the University of Yosai. The last work of Sako Komatsu was the documentary book “The Future of March 11”, which refers to the prospects for restoring the country after the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
Speaking about the tragedy of Komatsu, shortly before his death, he said: “I already thought that I could already die at any moment, but now I wanted to live a little longer, I would like to know, to see what will happen to Japan now.” Komatsu was an avid smoker, which is why in many photographs he is invariably seen with a cigarette in his hand. In recent years, he had problems with his legs, which is why he had to use a wheelchair.
He died of pneumonia in the hospital of M. Mino Prefecture Osaka aged 80 years on July 26. Bibliography - Japanese Apachi.The same: - Tokyo: Kadokawa - Tomorrow's kidnappers. The stupidity of Ivan. Earth under water. The same: the black emblem of Sakura - paper or hair?