Parasite Eve (46 page)

    inherited’
Tissue Culture
,
21, 142-146, 1995.

About the Author

Hideaki Sena, Ph.D.,
Pharmacology, was still a graduate student when his first novel,
Parasite
Eve
, turned him into a pop cultural heavyweight before you could say
“Adam.” He became the first recipient of the Japan Horror Award and is
credited, alongside Koji Suzuki, whose
Spiral
appeared in the same
summer, with initiating a smart, new style of horror writing in his country.
Subsequent novels by the phenomenal author include the Japan Sci-Fi Award
winner
Brain Valley
and an unforgettable meditation on
Tomorrow’s
Robots
. An ardent fan of Dean Koontz, Dr. Sena, who lectures on
microbiology as a scientist and on genre fiction as a literary star, lives in
Sendai, Japan.