This is a special edition of If You’re Just Joining Us. I am interviewing all of the other nominees of the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award.

Alexander O Smith is the translator of Project Itoh’s Harmony (Amazon) a dystopian novel set in a medical nanotechnology future.

Alexander is founder of Kajiya Productions and has been translating video games, novels, manga, and lyrics from Japanese to English professionally since 1998.

SPOILER ALERT!

Alex and I talked about Project Itoh, his novel Harmony including several spoilers, my own PKD Award nominated novel Yarn, the differences between Japanese and American authors, and translating for game Final Fantasy.

Also, Alex is the translator of The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Amazon). It’s an atmospheric noir that’s getting really good reviews from some big places like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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