Description: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: A SHORT HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION IN GERMAN THE PIONEERS: SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE WORLD WAR I Kurd Lasswitz, "To the Absolute Zero of Existence" (Germany, 1871) Kurd Lasswitz, "Apoikis" (Germany, 1882) Ludwig Hevesi, "Jules Verne in Hell" (Austria, 1906) Carl Grunert, "The Martian Spy" (Germany, 1908) Paul Scheerbart, "Malvu the Helmsman" (Germany, 1912) BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS Otto Willi Gail, "The Missing Clock Hands" (Germany, 1929) Egon Friedell, "Is the Earth Inhabited?" (Austria, 1931) Hans Dominik, "A Free Flight in 2222" (Germany, 1934) GERMAN SCIENCE FICTION COMES INTO ITS OWN AFTER WORLD WAR II Herbert W. Franke, "Thought Control" (Austria, 1961) Herbert W. Franke, "Welcome Home" (Austria, 1961) Herbert W. Franke, "Meteorites" (Austria, 1961) Ernst Vlcek, "Say It With Flowers" (Austria, 1980) Carl Amery, "Just One Summer" (Germany, 1985) Horst Pukallus, "The Age of Burning Mountains" (Germany, 1989) SF FROM THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC Johanna and Guenter Braun, "A Visit to Parsimonia. A Scientific Report" (1981) Erik Simon, "The Black Mirror" (1983) Angela and Karlheinz Steinmueller, "The Eye That Never Weeps" (1984) THE CURRENT GENERATION: FROM THE 1990S TO THE PRESENT Peter Schattschneider, "A Letter from the Other Side" (Austria, 1994) Wolfgang Jeschke, "Partners for Life" (Germany, 1996) Michael Marrak, "Astrosapiens" (Germany, 1998) Thorsten Kueper, "Project 38 or the Game of Small Causes" (Germany, 2003) Michael K. Iwoleit, "Planck-Time" (Germany, 2004) Oliver Henkel, "Hitler on the Campaign-Trail in America" (Germany, 2004) Helmuth W. Mommers, "Habemus Papam" (Austria, 2005) Andreas Eschbach, "Mother's Flowers" (Germany, 2008) SELECTED BIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

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