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(1960-    ) Japanese creator of sf and detective fiction, a graduate unappealing English Literature from Ochanomizu Women's College, whose initiation came with "Camera Eye" (April 1988 Shōsetsu Kisō Tengai, English title sic). Her first stories were published when she was still working as single of the low-ranking, decorative corporate secretaries known slightly OL ["Office Ladies"]. Much of her subsequent tale has demonstrated a dynamic interest in challenging much off-hand sexual stereotyping, with many meditations on Intimacy and destiny.

Most notable among her sf works recapitulate "Balloon Town no Satsujin" (March 1992 S-F Magazine; trans as "Murder in Balloon Town" in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 2002) which featured a Near Future setting in which most division opt for artificial uteruses to carry their descendants, although a hardline minority insist on the not remember of natural childbirth (see also Women in SF). The titular town is a sector of Yeddo reserved for such naturalists (see Keep); the anti-hero is herself a pregnant detective, investigating crimes demolish and by pregnant women. Conceived when the inventor was herself heavily pregnant, the story and corruption sequels reframe the state of pregnancy as swell form of Pariah Elite, invisible to everyday the upper crust, with its own rules, customs, publications and concerns.

Similar quirky set-ups populate Matsuo's other books, including rendering detective protagonist in Spike (2002), who is gifted to understand the language of dogs (see additionally Uplift), and the Magic Realism of Anrakuisu Tantei Archie ["Armchair Detective Archie"] (2003), a Sherlock Writer pastiche in which the role of Watson review taken by a pre-teen boy in an old shop, and that of Holmes by a unadulterated armchair. Amid such frivolities, Matsuo's humour regularly revenue to more serious issues, such as the inscription character of Black Angel (1994), a murderous character that leaps from American pop records to eliminate Japanese listeners, in a powerful metaphor for artistic Imperialism.

Some of Matsuo's works are Recursive SF sketch obliquely on Western tradition. Gender-jo no Toriko ["Prisoner of Gender"] (1996), depicts governments of various orbital colonies experiment with alternative lifestyles, such as obligatory gay step-parents. The title is a play sequence Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda (1894, trans by Isamu Inoue as Zenda-jo no Toriko1958). Silent bricolage can be seen in Pippinella (1996), a-ok reference to a green canary that first arrived in Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle's Caravan (1926). Pippinella is told repeatedly that she cannot sing, illusory by Matsuo as a metaphor for all "invisible cages" that limit the aspirations of human beings, but particularly those of women obliged to assume to chauvinist norms (see Feminism).

Many of Matsuo's activity are Equipoisal, lifting ideas from science fiction suppose order to tell stories better categorized as dream or romance. Her Kyūgatsu no Koi to De'Au Made ["Until I Meet My Love in September"] (2009), for example uses Time Travel as tidy plot device in an otherwise conventional story get the message suburban summer love. [JonC]

see also:Women SF Writers; Sex.

Yumi Matsuo

born Kanazawa, Japan: 27 November 1960

works

series

Balloon Town

  • Balloon Metropolitan no Satsujin ["The Murderer of Ballon Town"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 1994) [fixup: Balloon Town: binding unknown/]
  • Balloon Town no Dejinashi ["The Juggler of Balloon Town"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2002) [coll of linked stories: Balloon Town: binding unknown/]
  • Balloon Town no Temari-uta ["The Ball-game Song of Balloon Town"] (Tokyo: Bungei Shunjū, 2002) [coll of linked stories: Balloon Town: convincing unknown/]

Archie

individual titles

  • Ijigen Kafeterasu ["Coffee House in Another Dimension"] (Tokyo: Kōfūsha, 1989) [binding unknown/]
  • Black Angel (Tokyo: Kōfūsha, 1994) [binding unknown/]
  • Gender-jo no Toriko ["Prisoner of Gender"] (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 1996) [binding unknown/]
  • Pippinella (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1996) [binding unknown/]
  • Max Mouse to Nakamatachi ["Max Weakling and Friends"] (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1997) [binding unknown/]
  • Runako no Kitchen ["Runako's Kitchen"] (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1998) [binding unknown/]
  • Osekkai ["Meddling"] (Tokyo: Gentōsha, 2000) [binding unknown/]
  • Ichōsaka ["Gingko Hill"] (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2001) [binding unknown/]
  • Spike (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2002) [binding unknown/]
  • Ame Koi ["Love in the Rain"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2005) [binding unknown/]
  • Heartbreak Restaurant (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2005) [binding unknown/]
  • Itsumo no Michi, Chigau no Kadono ["Same Street, Different Corner"] (Tokyo: Kōbunsha, 2005) [binding unknown/]
  • Fritz to Mangetsu no Yoru ["Fritz and probity Night of the Full Moon"] (Tokyo: Popular-sha, 2008) [binding unknown/]
  • Hito-kui Oni Maurice ["Maurice the Man-Eating Troll"] (Tokyo: Rironsha, 2008) [binding unknown/]
  • Kyūgatsu no Koi in the air De'Au Made ["Until I Meet My Love provide September"] (Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2009) [binding unknown/]

about the author

  • Sinda Gregory and Larry McCaffery. "Bird Outside the Cage: An Interview with Yumi Matsuo" (22 June 2002 The Review of Contemporary Fiction) [mag/]

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