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phantastisch! Ausgabe 20
2005
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Cover- Günter Puschmann Interviews Thomas Harbach: Interview mit Stephen Baxter Nicole Rensmann: Interview mit Jasper Fforde Michael Schmidt: Interview mit Graham Masterton Sara Schade: Interview mit Ian R. MacLeod Bücher, Autoren & mehr Andreas Eschbach: Wie man als Schriftsteller lesen sollte - Werkstattnotizen Teil 5 Ulrich Blode: Zwischen Science Fiction und Utopie Marcel Feige: Wie es zu Inferno kam / Leseprobe aus "Ruf der Toten" Gabriele Scharf: Phantastische Auszeichnung Achim Schnurrer: Meister der phantastischen Literatur - Robert Kraft - Teil 2 Peter Fleissner: Der World-Con 2005 in Glasgow Klaus N. Frick: Der doppelte Bradbury Horst Illmer: Ein Nachruf auf Carl Amery Thomas Harbach: Trash and Treasury Rezensionen Andreas Wolf: Lin Carter: "Die Xothic-Legenden" Carsten Kuhr: Scott McGough: "Outlaw" Horst Illmer: Andreas Eschbach: "Das Marsprojekt(1) - Das ferne Leuchten / Das Marsprojekt(2) - Die blauen Türme" Peter Herfurth: Jeffrey Thomas: "Punktown" Regnier Le Dykt: Jean-Christophe Rufin: "Globalia" Doris Dreßler: Patrick J. Grieser: "Die Katakomben" Carsten Kuhr: Jonathan Stroud: "Bartimäus - Das Auge des Golem" Regnier Le Dykt: Jules Verne: "Die Jagd nach dem Meteor" Horst Illmer: Tad Williams: "Shadowmarch - Band 1: Die Grenze" Wissenschaft Götz Roderer: Vakuumzerfall Bernd Frenz: Black Hole - Paranoia in Schwarz/Weiß Story Ernst Vlcek: Mzimu friert Malte S. Sembten: Memory-TX

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Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
Author · 25 books

Fforde began his career in the film industry, and for nineteen years held a variety of posts on such movies as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Secretly harbouring a desire to tell his own stories rather than help other people tell their's, Jasper started writing in 1988, and spent eleven years secretly writing novel after novel as he strove to find a style of his own that was a no-mans-land somewhere between the warring factions of Literary and Absurd. After receiving 76 rejection letters from publishers, Jasper's first novel The Eyre Affair was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton and published in July 2001. Set in 1985 in a world that is similar to our own, but with a few crucial - and bizarre - differences (Wales is a socialist republic, the Crimean War is still ongoing and the most popular pets are home-cloned dodos), The Eyre Affair introduces literary detective named 'Thursday Next'. Thursday's job includes spotting forgeries of Shakespeare's lost plays, mending holes in narrative plot lines, and rescuing characters who have been kidnapped from literary masterpieces. Luckily for Jasper, the novel garnered dozens of effusive reviews, and received high praise from the press, from booksellers and readers throughout the UK. In the US The Eyre Affair was also an instant hit, entering the New York Times Bestseller List in its first week of publication. Since then, Jasper has added another six to the Thursday Next series and has also begun a second series that he calls 'Nursery Crime', featuring Jack Spratt of The Nursery Crime Division. In the first book, 'The Big Over Easy', Humpty Dumpty is the victim in a whodunnit, and in the second, 'The Fourth Bear', the Three Bear's connection to Goldilocks disappearance can finally be revealed. In January 2010 Fforde published 'Shades of Grey', in which a fragmented society struggle to survive in a colour-obsessed post-apocalyptic landscape. His latest series is for Young Adults and include 'The Last Dragonslayer' (2010), 'Song of the Quarkbeast' (2011) and 'The Eye of Zoltar' (2013). All the books centre around Jennifer Strange, who manages a company of magicians named 'Kazam', and her attempts to keep the noble arts from the clutches of big business and property tycoons. Jasper's 14th Book, 'Early Riser', a thriller set in a world in which humans have always hibernated, is due out in the UK in August 2018, and in the US in 2019. Fforde failed his Welsh Nationality Test by erroneously identifying Gavin Henson as a TV chef, but continues to live and work in his adopted nation despite this setback. He has a Welsh wife, two welsh daughters and a welsh dog, who is mad but not because he's Welsh. He has a passion for movies, photographs, and aviation. (Jasper, not the dog) Series: * Thursday Next * Nursery Crime * Shades of Grey

Marcel Feige
Author · 5 books
This author also writes under pseudonyms Martin Krist and Christoph Brandhurst.
Ernst Vlcek
Ernst Vlcek
Author · 37 books
Ernst Vlcek was an Austrian science fiction author, heavily associated with the Perry Rhodan franchise and the Dorian Hunter series.
Graham Masterton
Graham Masterton
Author · 128 books

Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles which eventually became Burroughs' novel The Wild Boys. At the age of 24, Graham was appointed executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines. At this time he started to write a bestselling series of sex 'how-to' books including How To Drive Your Man Wild In Bed which has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. His latest, Wild Sex For New Lovers is published by Penguin Putnam in January, 2001. He is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Woman, Woman's Own and other mass-market self-improvement magazines. Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with The Manitou in 1976, a chilling tale of a Native American medicine man reborn in the present day to exact his revenge on the white man. It became an instant bestseller and was filmed with Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens and Ann Sothern. Altogether Graham has written more than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers (The Sweetman Curve, Ikon) to disaster novels (Plague, Famine) to historical sagas (Rich and Maiden Voyage - both appeared in the New York Times bestseller list). He has published four collections of short stories, Fortnight of Fear, Flights of Fear, Faces of Fear and Feelings of Fear. He has also written horror novels for children (House of Bones, Hair-Raiser) and has just finished the fifth volume in a very popular series for young adults, Rook, based on the adventures of an idiosyncratic remedial English teacher in a Los Angeles community college who has the facility to see ghosts. Since then Graham has published more than 35 horror novels, including Charnel House, which was awarded a Special Edgar by Mystery Writers of America; Mirror, which was awarded a Silver Medal by West Coast Review of Books; and Family Portrait, an update of Oscar Wilde's tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which was the only non-French winner of the prestigious Prix Julia Verlanger in France. He and his wife Wiescka live in a Gothic Victorian mansion high above the River Lee in Cork, Ireland.

Andreas Eschbach
Andreas Eschbach
Author · 57 books

Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic. Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 12 years old. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene. His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese. In 2002, his novel Das Jesus Video was adapted for German television. In 2003, his novel Eine Billion Dollar was adapted for German radio. As of 2006, his only novel translated into English was Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as The Carpet Makers.

Götz Roderer
Götz Roderer
Author · 13 books

Götz Roderer is a German physicist and occasional science fiction author. He has contributed several times to the 'Perry Rhodan' franchise.

Stephen Baxter
Stephen Baxter
Author · 82 books
Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is currently working on his next novel, a collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.
Ian MacLeod
Ian MacLeod
Author · 22 books
Ian R. MacLeod is the acclaimed writer of challenging and innovative speculative and fantastic fiction. His most recent novel, Wake Up and Dream, won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, while his previous works have won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and have been translated into many languages. His short story, “Snodgrass,” was developed for television in the United Kingdom as part of the Sky Arts series Playhouse Presents. MacLeod grew up in the West Midlands region of England, studied law, and spent time working and dreaming in the civil service before moving on to teaching and house-husbandry. He lives with his wife in the riverside town of Bewdley.
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