鼎　元亨（かなえ　もとゆき）KANAE Motoyuki

1959年生。生地：日本国長崎県。京都大学工学部卒。在学中、UFO超心理研究会およびSF研究会に所属。1982年〜長野県諏訪地方にてファン活動。1996年、長崎県に活動拠点を移す。2006年日本ＳF評論賞審査委員賞を『ナガサキ生まれのミュータント』で受賞。自称、一介のSF者。

Motoyuki Kanae was born in Nagasaki in 1959. He was a member of the Kyoto University SF Research Club. After his fandom activities in Nagano during the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to Nagasaki to focus on writing. In 2005, he won the Special Jury Prize at the 5th Japan SF Critic Award for his essay “Nagasaki umare no myūtanto (The Mutants from Nagasaki).” He goes by the title of “simple SF person.”