YK
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Japanese astronomer
A.K.A.
Yōji Kondō
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Male
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Birth:
26 May 1933
The details
Biography
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.