Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach
Andreas Eschbach
Born	(1959-09-15) 15 September 1959 Ulm, Germany
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Science Fiction, Thriller
Website
http://www.andreaseschbach.de

Andreas Eschbach (born 15 September 1959, in Ulm) is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they 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 C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Seven 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, Polish, 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. As of 2006, his only novel translated into English was Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as The Carpet Makers.

Bibliography

Novels

• Die Haarteppichknüpfer (1995), ISBN 3-7951-1371-7, translated as "The Carpet Makers" (2005), ISBN 0-7653-0593-3
• Solarstation (1996), ISBN 3-7951-1406-3
• Jesus Video (1998), ISBN 3-7951-1797-6
• Kelwitts Stern (1999), ISBN 3-7951-1624-4
• Quest (2001), ISBN 3-453-18773-3
• Eine Billion Dollar (2001), ISBN 3-7857-2049-1 ("One Trillion Dollars")
• Exponentialdrift (2003), ISBN 3-404-14912-2 (first serialized 2002 in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
• Der Letzte seiner Art (2005), ISBN 3-404-15305-7
• Der Nobelpreis (2005), ISBN 3-7857-2219-2
• Ausgebrannt (2007), ISBN 978-3-7857-2274-9
• Ein König für Deutschland (2009), ISBN 978-3-7857-2374-6
• Herr aller Dinge (2011), ISBN 978-3-7857-2429-3 (Audiobook, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7857-4515-1)

Young Adult novels

• Perfect Copy: Die zweite Schöpfung (2002), ISBN 3-401-05425-2
• Das Marsprojekt (2004), ISBN 3-404-24332-3

1. Das ferne Leuchten (2005), ISBN 3-401-05749-9 (new edition of Das Marsprojekt)
2. Die blauen Türme (2005), ISBN 3-401-05770-7
3. Die gläsernen Höhlen (2006), ISBN 3-401-05867-3
4. Die steinernen Schatten (2007), ISBN 978-3-401-06060-6
5. Die schlafenden Hüter (2008), ISBN 978-3-401-06061-3
6. Gibt es Leben auf dem Mars oder Das Marsprojekt - der flüsternde Sturm (2009), ISBN 978-3-401-06366-9 (a prequel to the Marsprojekt-series)

• Die seltene Gabe (2004), ISBN 3-401-05461-9
• Out-Series

1. Black*Out (2010), ISBN 978-3-401-06062-0
2. Hide*Out (2011), ISBN 978-3-401-06587-8
3. Time*Out (2012), ISBN 978-3-401-06630-1

Anthologies

• Eine Trillion Euro (short story anthology of European SF writers edited by Eschbach; contains stories by Pierre Bordage, Jean-Claude Dunyach, Valerio Evangelisti, Wolfgang Jeschke, Michael Marrak and others), a winner of the 2004 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.

Short story collection

• Eine unberührte Welt, 2008. ISBN 978-3-404-15859-1

Other

• "Der Gesang der Stille" (1998), (novella #1935 in the Perry Rhodan series)
• "Die Rückkehr" (2005), (#2295, his second Perry Rhodan novella as a "guest writer")
• "Die Falle von Dhogar" (2009), (#2503, his third Perry Rhodan novella as a "guest writer")
• Das Buch von der Zukunft: Ein Reiseführer (2004), ISBN 3-87134-476-1, non-fiction

External links

• Author's official site
• Andreas Eschbach Dutch fansite with covers
• Andreas Eschbach at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Story Behind The Carpet Makers - Online Essay by Andreas Eschbach