Emma Mieko Candon
Emma Mieko Candon writes the kind of science fiction that feels both ancient and startlingly new. Her stories wander through landscapes filled with fractured gods, haunted technologies, impossible loyalties, and people trying to make sense of worlds that no longer follow familiar rules. Rather than treating futuristic ideas as cold thought experiments, she approaches them as deeply human questions, exploring memory, identity, grief, love, and the strange ways people survive after catastrophe. A Japanese American author with roots in Hawaii, Candon first discovered a love of storytelling while writing alongside friends as a teenager. That…