In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit of the genre with ten arch, incisive, provocative essays. Edited and with an Introduction by Franz Rottensteiner. Translated by Rottensteiner and others. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
In this bold and controversial examination of the past, present, and future of science fiction, Lem informs the raging debate over the literary merit ...
This entertaining anthology delivers great reading and an overview of German-language science fiction, including works by the "German father of science fiction" Kurd Lasswitz, the Austrian writer Ludwig Hevesi (author of "Jules Verne in Hell"), the fantasist Paul Scheerbart (a scurrilous, idiosyncratic writer who was an outsider in both literature and science fiction), popular writers Otto Willi Gail and Hans Dominik, as well as the contemporary luminaries of the genre: Wolfgang Jeschke, Herbert W. Franke, Andreas Eschbach, and Carl Amery. The introduction by the editor gives a succinct...
This entertaining anthology delivers great reading and an overview of German-language science fiction, including works by the "German father of scienc...
A second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long out of print) of some of the best science fiction from continental Europe. Included are stories by Stanislaw Lem (Poland), Vsevolod Ivanov (Russia), Eurocon-award winner Adrian Rogoz (Romania), Herbert W. Franke (Germany), Wolfgang Jeschke (Germany), Gerard Klein (France) and others.
A second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long ou...
Lem, Stanislaw Rottensteiner, Franz Zimmermann-Göllheim, Irmtraud
Als Klebugler, Teignasen und Bleichlinge treten die Menschen in diesen futuristischen Mrchen, die vorgeblich Roboter fr Roboter geschrieben haben, in Erscheinung. Unsere metallenen und kristallischen Brder haben das Joch des Menschen abgeschttelt und sind in den Kosmos entfleucht. Die schrecklichsten unter ihren ergtzlichen und feinsinnigen Mrchen und Mythen handeln von Kmpfen mit dem entsetzlichen Bleichling, einem Ungeheuer, das durch seinen bloen Anblick jeden anstndigen Roboter zum Rosten bringen kann.
Als Klebugler, Teignasen und Bleichlinge treten die Menschen in diesen futuristischen Mrchen, die vorgeblich Roboter fr Roboter geschrieben haben, in ...