Keikaku (Project) Itoh was born in Tokyo in 1974. He graduated from Musashino Art University. In 2007, he debuted with Gyakusatsu Kikan (Genocidal Organ) and took first prize in the Best SF of 2007 in SF Magazine. His novel Harmony won both the Seiun and Japan SF awards, and its English-language
edition won the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation. He is also the
author of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots, a
Japanese-language novel based on the popular video game series. All
three of his novels are available in English from Haikasoru. After a
long battle with cancer, Itoh passed away in March 2009.
