Karlheinz Steinmüller (born 4 November 1950 in
Klingenthal
Klingenthal is a town in the Vogtland region, in Saxony, south-eastern Germany. It is situated directly on the border with the Czech Republic opposite the Czech town of Kraslice, 29 km southeast of Plauen, and 33 km northwest of Karlov ...
) is a German physicist and
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
author. Together with his wife
Angela Steinmüller he has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms. Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller were not only among the most widely read authors in the
GDR, ranking at the top of a 1989 poll of most popular science fiction authors in the GDR,
but their works continue to be republished.
Awards
* 1995:
Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Leichter als Vakuum'' (with Angela Steinmüller and Erik Simon)
* 2001: German Fantasy Prize for ''die Verbreitung der phantastischen Literatur in zwei verschiedenen Gesellschaftssystemen sowie ihre Zukunftsperspektiven.'' (with Angela Steinmüller)
* 2004: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Beste Kurzgeschichte" for ''Vor der Zeitreise'' (with Angela Steinmüller)
Novels (with Angela Steinmüller)
* ''
Andymon. Eine Weltraum-Utopie'', 1982
* ''Pulaster. Roman eines Planeten'', 1986
* ''
Der Traummeister'', 1990
* ''Spera'', 2004
References
External links
Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller's home page
1950 births
Living people
People from Klingenthal
East German writers
German science fiction writers
Writers from Saxony
German male writers
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