Shinichi Hoshi
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Shinichi Hoshi (星 新一 Hoshi Shin'ichi, September 6, 1926 - December 30, 1997) was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer. He is best known for his "short-short" science-fiction stories, often no more than three or four pages, of which he wrote over 1000. He also wrote mysteries, and won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mousou Ginko (Delusion Bank) in 1968.
His name was used by his friend Osamu Tezuka for a character in Amazing 3, a cartoon series which Tezuka produced in 1967.
His books translated into in English include There Was a Knock, a collection of 15 stories, and The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories.
