175:. The story is about a "normal, middle-class Japanese father and son who live in a subdivision normal in every way but one: the fabric of time is torn just enough to allow them to see dinosaurs in the streets." The story has since been reprinted in
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Kono's 1974 city naturalist story "Triceratops" ("トリケラトプス") is his work most frequently translated into
English. The story was first published in English in the August 1982 issue of
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Kono's city naturalist series has been described as "delicately evocative" and "among the best of any
Japanese SF writer," with the stories in the series compared to the works of
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In 1958, Kono dropped out of Keio
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The Hawk or King Kandool: A collection of early poetic works by Norio Kono
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He died at the age of 77 on January 29, 2012 due to aspiration pneumonia.
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Impromptu Travel to India: Kono Yamashita Live in India
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