The Black Mirror and Other Stories

This entertaining anthology delivers great reading and an overview of German-language science fiction, including works by the "German father of science fiction" Kurd Lasswitz, the Austrian writer Ludwig Hevesi (author of "Jules Verne in Hell"), the fantasist Paul Scheerbart (a scurrilous, idiosyncratic writer who was an outsider in both literature and science fiction), popular writers Otto Willi Gail and Hans Dominik, as well as the contemporary luminaries of the genre: Wolfgang Jeschke, Herbert W. Franke, Andreas Eschbach, and Carl Amery. The introduction by the editor gives a succinct history of German language science fiction, including its representation in Hugo Gernsback's popular magazines. With select bibliographies of German language science fiction and writings on German science fiction, this book will be appreciated by scholars and general readers alike.

FRANZ ROTTENSTEINER has written and edited many books in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, including The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History from Dracula to Tolkien (1978), View From Another Shore: European Science Fiction (1999), and The Best of Austrian Science Fiction (2001). He lives in Vienna, Austria. MIKE MITCHELL has translated over 50 books. He was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for his translation of Herbert Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China (1997) and lives in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Short History of Science Fiction in German
The Pioneers: Science Fiction Before World War I
"To the Absolute Zero of Existence" (Germany, 1871)
"Apoikis" (Germany, 1882)
"Jules Verne in Hell" (Austria, 1906)
"The Martian Spy" (Germany, 1908)
"Malvu the Helmsman" (Germany, 1912)
Between the World Wars
"The Missing Clock Hands" (Germany, 1929)
"Is the Earth Inhabited?" (Austria, 1931)
"A Free Flight in 2222" (Germany, 1934)
German Science Fiction Comes into its Own After World War II
"Thought Control" (Austria, 1961)
"Welcome Home" (Austria, 1961)
"Meteorites" (Austria, 1961)
"Say It With Flowers" (Austria, 1980)
"Just One Summer" (Germany, 1985)
"The Age of Burning Mountains" (Germany, 1989)
SF From the German Democratic Republic
"A Visit to Parsimonia. A Scientific Report" (1981)
"The Black Mirror" (1983)
"The Eye That Never Weeps" (1984)
The Current Generation: From The 1990s to the Present
"A Letter from the Other Side" (Austria, 1994)
"Partners for Life" (Germany, 1996)
"Astrosapiens" (Germany, 1998)
"Project 38 or the Game of Small Causes" (Germany, 2003)
"Planck-Time" (Germany, 2004)
"Hitler on the Campaign-Trail in America" (Germany, 2004)
"Habemus Papam" (Austria, 2005)
"Mother's Flowers" (Germany, 2008)
Editor's Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author and Translator
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