![]() ![]() While he is undergoing treatment, he noted that there are no signs of him getting better. However, Yamamoto concluded that he can no longer write works like this. Yamamoto recounted his love of the fanciful science fiction works of Murray Leinster, who dreamed up fantastical devices that could bend and break the limits of science to allow space travel or time travel, and even predicting a massive, Internet-like network of computers in his short story "A Logic Named Joe." Yet his memory remains intact, and he can even remember specific details of objects, places, and events that inspired scenes in Project Piano. He compared himself to the final state of the character Charlie Gordon from the science-fiction story Flowers for Algernon. ![]() Yamamoto stated in his afterword that he began suffering from cerebral infarction in 2014, and though he has recovered physically, his mental abilities for calculation and logic remain impaired, to the point that he has difficulty calculating addition of two-digit numbers. Publisher Hayakawa Shobo published on Thursday the afterword by Hiroshi Yamamoto in the new edition of his Project Piano novel, where Yamamoto revealed that he has been suffering from cerebral infarction, and enjoins readers to treat the novel as his "last will and testament" as a "hard sci-fi writer." ![]()
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