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. Aside from his work as a writer, Yamamoto is also active in various literary capacities as editor of classic science fiction anthologies and as president of To-Gakkai, a group of tongue-in-cheek 'experts' on the occult.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.' Other novels include Day of Judgment and The Unseen Sorrow of Winter. His first hardcover science fiction release, God Never Keeps Silent became a sensation among SF fans and was nominated for the Japan SF Award. Gained popularity with juvenile titles such as February at the Edge of Time and the Ghost Hunter series. Began his career with game developers Group SNE in 1987 and debuted as a writer and game designer.

From Haikasoru (publisher) Hiroshi Yamamoto(山本弘) was born in 1956 in Kyoto. Aside from his work as a writer, Yamamoto is also active in various literary capacities as editor of classic science fiction anthologies and as president of To-Gakkai, a group of tongue-in-cheek 'experts' on the occult. Hiroshi Yamamoto(山本弘) was born in 1956 in Kyoto.

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