Andreas Eschbach (born 15 September 1959, in

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) is a German writer, primarily of science fiction. His stories that are not clearly in the SF genre usually feature elements of the fantastic.

Biography

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 ''

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''. His first novel was published in 1995. Nine of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene. Four of his novels have won the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis. His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Serbian,

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, Turkish and Japanese. In 2002, his novel '' Jesus Video'' was adapted for German television. In 2003, his novel '' Eine Billion Dollar'' was adapted for German radio. His only novels translated into English were ''Die Haarteppichknüpfer'', published in 2005 as ''

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'', and ''Herr aller Dinge'', published in 2014 as ''Lord of All Things''.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Die Haarteppichknüpfer'' (1995), , translated as ''

'' (2005), *''Solarstation'' (1996), *'' Jesus Video'' (1998), *''Kelwitts Stern'' (1999), *''Quest'' (2001), *'' Eine Billion Dollar'' (2001), , translated as ''One Trillion Dollars'' (2014), *''Exponentialdrift'' (2003), (first serialized 2002 in

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) *''Der Letzte seiner Art'' (2003), *''Der Nobelpreis'' (2005), *''Ausgebrannt'' (2007), *''Ein König für Deutschland'' (2009), *''Herr aller Dinge'' (2011), (Audiobook, 2011, ), translated as ''Lord of All Things'' (2014), , also available as audiobook in English language * ''Todesengel'' (2013), * ''Der Jesus-Deal'' (2014), * ''Teufelsgold'' (2016), * ''NSA - Nationales Sicherheits-Amt'' (2018), ;Young Adult novels *''Perfect Copy: Die zweite Schöpfung'' (2002), *''Das Marsprojekt'' (2004), #''Das ferne Leuchten'' (2005), (new edition of ''Das Marsprojekt'') #''Die blauen Türme'' (2005), #''Die gläsernen Höhlen'' (2006), #''Die steinernen Schatten'' (2007), #''Die schlafenden Hüter'' (2008), #''Gibt es Leben auf dem Mars oder Das Marsprojekt – der flüsternde Sturm'' (2009), (a short story-length prequel to the Marsprojekt-series) *''Die seltene Gabe'' (2004), *''Out''-Series #''Black*Out'' (2010), #''Hide*Out'' (2011), #''Time*Out'' (2012), * ''Aquamarin.'' # ''Aquamarin'' (2015), # ''Submarin'' (2017), # ''Ultramarin'' (2019),

Short fiction

;Collections *''Eine unberührte Welt'', 2008. ;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted. ;Contributions to the ''

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'' series * #1935 ''Der Gesang der Stille'' (1998) * #2295 ''Die Rückkehr'' (2005) * #2503 ''Die Falle von Dhogar'' (2009) * ''Stellaris'' #25 ''Ein unbedeutender Mann'' (published in ''Perry Rhodan'' #2614, 2011) * #2700 ''Der Techno-Mond'' (2013) * #2812 ''Willkommen im Tamanium!'' (2015) * #2813 ''An Rhodans Grab'' (2015) ;Anthologies (edited) *''Eine Trillion Euro'' (short story anthology of European SF writers edited by Eschbach; contains stories by Pierre Bordage, Jean-Claude Dunyach,

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, Michael Marrak and others), a winner of the 2004 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.

Non-fiction

*''Das Buch von der Zukunft: Ein Reiseführer'' (2004),

Notes and references

External links

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Dutch fansite with book cover images
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Story Behind ''The Carpet Makers''
– online essay by Eschbach * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eschbach, Andreas 1959 births Living people German male novelists German science fiction writers German speculative fiction editors German thriller writers The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people People from Ulm Science fiction editors