Writer – Editor – Translator
When I started science fiction writing in the early 1980ies, Rainer Zubeil (1956-2004), better known under his pen name Thomas Ziegler, was the young star of German science fiction who set the tone for a new style that focused on realistic near future settings, local color and distinctly left-wing political engagement. I would never have…
Publisher p.machinery has recently reissued my novel Der Moloch, initially published in 2019 and based on a novella that was the lead story of the fourth and last issue of Helmuth W. Mommers’ significant anthology series Visionen. Apart from a general stylistic overhaul of the novel that hopefully has made it more accessible the most…
Ich möchte auf diesem Wege meiner Tochter Juliana zu ihrem vierunddreißigsten Geburtstag gratulieren. Ich hoffe, Du bist Deinen Weg erfolgreich weitergegangen, und wünsche Dir alles erdenklich Gute für Dein weiteres Leben. Es gibt so viel, was ich Dir an dieser Stelle sagen könnte, aber vielleicht wird sich irgendwann die Gelegenheit ergeben, es auf persönlichem Wege…
I have been an admirer of C.L. Moore (1911-1987), one of the pioneering women in American science fiction and fantasy, ever since I first read read her groundbreaking, imaginative and emotionally intense tales from the 1930ies. To get to the bottom of her fascination I started in 2022 a thorough examination of her complete short…
The book series Cutting Edge that I conceived a few years ago and now produce in collaboration with Tom Turtschi and p.machinery publisher Michael Haitel – a showcase of the best of contemporary speculative fiction in German, planed to be complemented with classics and selected works by international writers – is slowly gaining momentum. I…
The fifth online issue of the international science fiction magazine InterNova, that I edit in collaboration with a small team of international supporters, has recently been uploaded and is available here. An e-book version in various formats can he downloaded from publisher p.machinery’s website here. This time it’s a mixed issue that, under the loose…
The fourth issue of InterNova, the international science fiction magazine that I relaunched in late 2022, has been uploaded a few weeks ago. This time it’s a theme issue about French science fiction that I compiled in collaboration with translator Michael Shreve and French sf veteran Jean-Claude Dunyach. It includes stories by Jacques Barbéri, Claude…
In 2002 I founded, in collaboration with Ronald M. Hahn and Helmuth W. Mommers, the short story magazine Nova which over the years has grown into a major showcase of contemporary German language science fiction. Since 2012, when I took over from Ronald M. Hahn, I have been Nova’s fiction editor, a rewarding but in…
My novella “Briefe an eine imaginäre Frau”, published in Nova 31, has been nominated for the Deutsche Science Fiction Preis (German Science Fiction Award) as best science fiction story of 2022. The story has initially been written in English and the original will be published before the end of the year in the first printed…
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…