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Scifaiku (science fiction haiku) is a form of science fiction poetry first announced by Tom Brinck with his 1995 (Scifaiku Manifesto ). It is inspired by Japanese haiku, but explores science, science fiction (SF), and other speculative fiction themes, such as fantasy and horror. They are based on the principles and form of haiku but can deviate from its structure. Scifaiku follow three major principles – minimalism, immediacy and human insight: * Scifaiku follows the haiku model, including its spirit of minimalism. While traditional Japanese haiku usually has 3 phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on ("sound symbols"), haiku in English usually has seventeen (or fewer) syllables. Scifaiku is even more flexible and may be shorter or longer (allowing for longer technical terms, e.g. anisomorphism), although most often still written, as English language haiku, in three lines. * Immediacy is the use of direct sensory perceptions to give a sense of being in the moment. Concrete, rather than abstract terms are used. Metaphor and allegory are rarely explicit though sometimes implied. * Human insight comes from the idea that the purpose of much science fiction is to understand ourselves better through exploring possible futures or speculative realities. ==Science fiction haiku== Before there was scifaiku on the Internet, there was science fiction haiku. Probably the earliest publication of science fiction haiku was Karen Anderson's "Six Haiku" (''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'', July 1962). Below is number four of her six SF haiku. ::Those crisp cucumbers :: Not yet planted in Syrtis -- :: How I desire one! Terry Pratchett included the following SF haiku as a chapter epigram in his early non-Discworld novel, ''The Dark Side of the Sun'' (1976). ::Hark to the crash of ::the leaves in the autumn, the smash ::of the crystal leaves. ::::Charles Sub-Lunar, 'Planetary Haiku' It wasn't until 1979 that science fiction haiku were regularly published, with Robert Frazier's "Haiku for the L5" (''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', 1979) and "Haiku for the Space Shuttle" (''IASFM'', 1980) starting the trend. In 1994, Michael Bishop's story "Cri di Coeur" (IASFM 1994) featured a haiku contest held on an interstellar ship, with the topic of haiku about astrophysics, subject to the constraint that (as in Japanese haiku) the poems must each feature a season. (The ten haiku featured in the story were written by Bishop and Geoffrey A. Landis). The most extensive use of haiku in science fiction is in David Brin's Uplift Universe (especially in the novel Startide Rising), where the uplifted dolphins speak a haiku-like language called Trinary. He has characters quoting haiku by Kobayashi Issa and Yosa Buson, and has them spontaneously writing their own haiku. Outside of his Uplift Universe, Brin has haiku as chapter epigrams in his novel ''The Postman''. One of the main characters in Neal Stephenson's ''Cryptonomicon'', Bobby Shaftoe, is a haiku-writing U.S. Marine Raider during World War II. The book's prologue starts with one of his very rough haiku (): ::Two tires fly. Two wail. ::A bamboo grove, all chopped down ::From it, warring songs Zoe's boyfriend, in John Scalzi's 2008 novel ''Zoe's Tale'', sends a haiku to her PDA. Two of the more famous science fiction authors who have also written science fiction haiku are Joe Haldeman and Thomas M. Disch. The author Paul O. Williams, who has written a series of science fiction books as well as books of regular haiku and senryū, has combined both interests with some published science fiction haiku. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scifaiku」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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