Name Yoji Kondo | Role Fiction writer | |
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Education University of Pennsylvania |
Japanese astrophysicist and author Yoji Kondo Died at 84
Yoji Kondo (近藤 陽次, Kondō Yōji, born 1933) is a Japanese astrophysicist who also writes science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master (1992), and contributed to New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988 — Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue (1988), after his friend, writer Robert A. Heinlein, died in 1988.

Kondo also edited the non-fiction book Interstellar Travel & Multi-Generational Space Ships, part of the Apogee Books Space Series.
Kondo is also an accomplished teacher of Aikido and Judo.
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