Michael Szameit (1950 – 30 May 2014) was a German science fiction writer. Born 1950 in Priessen (now part of

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), in

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, he became an

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before beginning to study

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, which he had to abandon for health reasons. Later he worked as a sound

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, eventually becoming head of a recording studio for radio and television. From 1981 to 1984 he worked in the editorial office of the Neues Leben publishing house. In 1984 he became a freelance writer. Today he lives in

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and works as an editor and journalist for the German magazine ''Blinker''. His first short story was published 1976, his first novel (''Red Alert in Tunnel Transterra'') in 1982 by the Neues Leben publishing house. According to a poll held in 1990 by the club magazine ''Transfer'' of the SFC ''Andymon'', he was at that point one of the four most popular science fiction writers in the then

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Bibliography

None of his works has been published in English, so the titles are literal translations.

novels

* ''Red Alert in Tunnel Transterra'' (1982, Alarm im Tunnel Transterra) * ''In the Light of Zaurak'' (1983, Im Glanz der Sonne Zaurak) * ''The Secret of the Sun Stones'' (1984, Das Geheimnis der Sonnensteine) * ''Dragoncruiser Ikaros'' (1987, Drachenkreuzer Ikaros; 1994 reprint by Heyne ) * ''Copyworld'' (1997; 1999 reprinted by Das Neue Berlin )

stories

* ''The Animal'' (1976, Das Tier) * ''Vacation, Aldebaran style'' (1976, Urlaub auf aldebaranisch) * ''The Apple-purée Cruiser'' (1983, Der Apfelmuskreuzer) * ''Planet of the Wind Harps'' (1983, Planet der Windharfen) * ''Three-Eyes, keep watch...'' (1990, Dreiäuglein, wache...)

as publisher

* ''From the Diary of an Ant'' (1985, Aus dem Tagebuch einer Ameise) * ''The Long Way to the Blue Star'' (1990, Der lange Weg zum blauen Stern)

References

External links

unless otherwise noted they are all in German
Official Website

Michael Szameit @ Blinker

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