Tow Ubukata (1977-) is a renowned Japanese novelist and screenwriter. In 2003 Ubukata was awarded the Nihon SF Taishō Award by the Science Fiction Writers of Japan for his novel Mardock Scramble. He would then go on to win a number of awards for his novel Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer in 2010 (Eiji Yoshikawa New Author Award for Literature, Japan Booksellers' Award, Seiichi Funahashi Literature Award). Since his debut, Ubukata has penned more than twenty novels and has written screenplays for a handful of television series and motion pictures.