Masaki Gorō
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1957- ) Japanese author who won the 1987 Hayakawa SF Contest for new writers competition with his debut story collection Evil Eyes (coll 1988). This and his subsequent work largely reflect a Cyberpunk sensibility, particularly the Seiun Award-winning Venus City (1992), whose female office-worker protagonist habitually enters Virtual Reality as a male Avatar. Similar Gender issues confront the male protagonist of the sado-masochistic erotic novel Shadow Orchid (2002), a student at a co-educational school where males are fitted with remotely-controlled mechanical suppositories that leave them in thrall to a "Princess" dominatrix (see Sex). [JonC]
Masaki Gorō
born Kanagawa, Japan: 1957
works
- Venus City (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 1992) [pb/]
- Mō Neko no Tame ni Nanka Nakanai ["I Won't Weep Again for the Cats"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 1994) [coll: binding unknown/]
- Shadow Orchid (Tokyo: Core Magazine, 2002) [binding unknown/]
- Samayoeru Tenshi ["Wandering Angel"] (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2005) [binding unknown/]
collections
- Evil Eyes (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 1988) [coll: binding unknown/]
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