Angela Steinmüller (born 15 April 1941 in

Schmalkalden Schmalkalden () is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in the southwest of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is on the southern slope of the Thuringian Forest at the Schmalkalde river, a tributary to the Werra. , the town had a popul ...

) is a German mathematician and

science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...

author. Together with her husband

Karlheinz Steinmüller Karlheinz Steinmüller (born 4 November 1950) is a German physicist and science fiction author. Together with his wife Angela Steinmüller he has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, g ...

she 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

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, 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

* 1993: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Der Kerzenmacher'' * 1995: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Leichter als Vakuum'' (with

und Erik Simon) * 2001: German Fantasy Prize for ''die Verbreitung der phantastischen Literatur in zwei verschiedenen Gesellschaftssystemen sowie ihre Zukunftsperspektiven.'' (with Karlheinz Steinmüller) * 2004: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Best short story" for ''Vor der Zeitreise'' (with Karlheinz Steinmüller)

Novels (with Karlheinz Steinmüller)

* '' Andymon. Eine Weltraum-Utopie'', 1982 * ''Pulaster. Roman eines Planeten'', 1986 * ''

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'', 1990 * ''Spera'', 2004

References

External links

Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller's home page
1941 births Living people People from Schmalkalden People from Hesse-Nassau East German writers East German women German science fiction writers Writers from Thuringia German women short story writers German short story writers German women science fiction and fantasy writers 20th-century German women {{sf-writer-stub