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Dempow Torishima

Born

Osaka, Japan

Website

https://blog.goo.ne.jp/torishima_denpo

Twitter

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Genre

Fiction, Horror

Influences

Edward Carey, Toh EnJoe, Yusuke Miyauchi ...more

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Dempow Torishima was born in Osaka. He graduated from Osaka College of Art and worked as a freelance designer and illustrator. He won the Sogen SF Short Story Prize with his debut fiction “Sisyphean” (Kaikin no to) in 2011. Since then, he has been writing a series of stories in the same far-future world of Sisyphean, which was published as Sisyphean and Other Stories in 2013. The book was chosen as the best SF of 2013 in SF Magazine, won the Japan SF Award, was nominated for the Seiun Award in 2014.

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Dempow Torishima’s books

Average rating: 3.82 · 438 ratings · 77 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima, 酉島伝法, Daniel Huddleston (Translation) 3.93 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark,From and About Japan by Nick Mamatas (Editor), Masumi Washington (Editor), Miyuki Miyabe 3.40 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisyphéen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Dempow Torishima (?)

“Temples and tochkas lay covered in scaly coats of clocks and measuring instruments, and every gap in between was filled with the friction and disorder of some lampstand, kitchen utensil, mirror window bottle doorpostboxcarouselectorpedometerrariumbilicalendartboardwalkmandalandminesweeperiscope …”
― Dempow Torishima, Sisyphean

tags: portmanteau, wordplay

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“There, there, you're not always necessarily you.”
― Dempow Torishima, Sisyphean

tags: identity

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