(1959- ) German writer who began publishing work of genre interest with "Dolls" for c't in 1991, and whose first novel, Die Haarteppichknüpfer (1995; trans Doryl Jensen as The Carpet Makers 2005), intriguingly rewrites the normally expansive forms of American Planetary Romance and Space Opera into a bleak, compulsively storyable ideogram of the universe as prison: the carpets made by the titular carpet makers across the galaxy are aesthetically dead Entropic parodies of craft made for a dead Emperor, whose posthumous demands have denuded half a galaxy. In Das Jesus Video ["The Jesus Video"] (1998), Eschbach's most popular novel to date, the manual for a not-yet-released video camera is found by archaeologists in a two-thousand-year-old grave in Palestine. He remains prolific, and in recent years has also written several Young Adult works. His skill at exposing Hard SF tropes to adult supervision intensifies a sense that further translations are in order. [JC]
Andreas Eschbach
born Ulm, Germany: 15 September 1959
died
work
series
Mars Project
individual titles
- Die Haarteppichknüpfer
(Munich, Germany: Schneeklurth, 1995) [hb/] - The Carpet Makers (New York: Tor, 2005) [trans by Doryl Jensen of the above: hb/Rick {BERRY}]
- Solarstation (Munich, Germany: Schneeklurth, 1996) [hb/]
- Das Jesus Video (Munich, Germany: Schneeklurth, 1998) [hb/]
- Kelwitts Stern ["Kelwitt's Star"] (Munich, Germany: Schneeklurth, 1999) [hb/]
- Quest (Munich, Germany: Heyne Verlag, 2001) [hb/Thomas Thiemeyer]
- Perfect Copy (Würzburg, Germany: Arena-Verlag, 2001) [hb/]
- Eine Billion Dollar ["One Trillion Dollars"] (Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany: Lübbe, 2001) [hb/]
- Der Letzte seiner Art ["The Last of his Species"] (Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany: Lübbe, 2003) [hb/]
- Die seltene Gabe (Würzburg, Germany: Arena-Verlag, 2004) [hb/]
- Der Nobelpreis (Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany: Lübbe, 2005) [hb/]
- Ausgebrannt (Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany: Lübbe, 2007) [hb/]
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