Writer – Editor – Translator
My novella “Briefe an eine imaginäre Frau”, published in Nova #31, has been nominated for the Kurd Lasswitz Preis, one of the most prestigious German science fiction awards, in the category of best German science fiction story of the year 2022. The story has initially been written in English and its original version “Letters to…
Another issue of the international science fiction magazine InterNova, that I edit in collaboration with numerous international writers, editors and fans, has recently been uploaded. This time it’s a mixed issue under the loose motto “New Fabulists”, with stories from seven countries and an insightful guest editorial about the current developments of international science fiction…
p.machinery has recently published issue #32 of Nova, the German speculative fiction magazine that I co-founded in 2002. It includes stories by Thomas Grüter, Karsten Lorenz, Victoria Sack, Ricky Wilhelmson, Aiki Mira, Wolf Welling, Benjamin Hirth, Frank W. Haubold and Canadian guest writer Brandon Crilly. The nonfiction section presents, apart from an updated German version…
A few years ago I had the idea for a new book series called Cutting Edge, intended to present the best of contemporary German language speculative fiction, supplemented with selected German classics and works by outstanding international writers, to an audience outside of the usual science fiction readership. The idea could only be realized by…
The second online issue of the international science fiction magazine InterNova, that I edit in collaboration with writers, editors and translators from numerous countries, has just been uploaded and is available here. (An e-book version in various formats will follow soon.) This time it’s a theme issue about contemporary science fiction from Greece, compiled with support…
The first online issue of the international science fiction magazine InterNova – a subproject of the World Culture Hub that I edit in collaboration with writers, editors and enthusiasts from around the globe – has just been uploaded. It features short stories by Brandon Crilly (Canada), Adriana Alarco de Zadra (Peru), Louis Evans (USA), Bruce…
Yvonne Tunnat, one of the busiest reviewers of the German science fiction community, has invited my co-editor Marianne Labisch and me to an interview about our work on the German science fiction magazine Nova and the coming relaunch of its international sister magazine InterNova. The interview is available on Yvonne’s literature podcast Literatunnat.
Guy Hasson from Israel, a long-time collaborator of the two story magazines Nova and InterNova that I co-edit, has recently invited me to a podcast interview on occasion of the planed relaunch of InterNova. Our talk about the struggles of local science fiction productions and the emergence of a global sf movement is available here…
Tireless small publisher p.machinery has just released issue #31 of Nova, the magazine of speculative literature edited by Michael Haitel and me. It includes new stories by Maike Braun, C. M. Dyrnberg, J.A. Hagen, Lars Hannig, Karsten Kruschel, Dirk Alt, Thomas Grüter and Frank Neugebauer, a translated story by Costa Rican scholar Iván Molina as…
My short story “MindMorph” has recently been published in Macht & Wort, an anthology of science fiction stories about the power of language and communication, edited by Hans-Jürgen Kugler and René Moreau for Hirnkost Verlag. It’s a hilarious verbal dispute between an entrepreneur and a government agent facing artificial intelligence service bots seizuring power in…