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Hōsuke Nojiri (野尻 抱介,Nojiri Hōsuke) (born 1961 inMie Prefecture) is a Japanesescience fiction writer.
After a career as aCAD programmer andgame designer, he was first published in 1992, theCreguian gamenovelization.
He admiresArthur C. Clarke, and his own works are classified ashard science fiction, favoringplanetary science as a theme. HisRocket Girls series deals withhuman spaceflight in alight novel form with hard SF backing; the reason that only girls are hired as astronauts in the novels is for their light weight.