''Nabou'' is a 1968

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Günther Krupkat Günther Krupkat (5 July 1905, Berlin14 April 1990, Berlin) was a German fiction writer, known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany. Biography Born in Berlin in 1905, Krupkat studied engineering before dropping out for ...

. Written as a sequel to his 1963 novel '' Als die Götter starben'', ''Nabou'' narrates an expedition into the interior of the Earth. A member of a research team investigating Earth's crust is revealed to be a

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, or "Biomat," left by an advanced spacefaring people called the Mejuans. The encounter between the humans and the alien representative is a comparative class encounter between advanced socialist aliens and human societies in a "lower stage" of development without open class conflict. A 1989 survey ranks it as the 13th most popular

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References

Bibliography

* Fritzsche, Sonja. ''Science Fiction Literature in East Germany''. Oxford; New York: Lang, 2006. * Neumann, Hans-Peter. ''Die grosse illustrierte Bibliographie der Science Fiction in der DDR''. Berlin: Shayol, 2002. * Steinmüller, Angela and Karlheinz. ''Vorgriff auf das Lichte Morgen''. Passau: Erster Deutscher Fantasy Club, 1995.

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* 1968 science fiction novels German science fiction novels East German novels Novels about extraterrestrial life Biorobotics in fiction 1968 German novels {{1960s-sf-novel-stub