Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach
Eschbach in 2014
Born	15 September 1959 Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Science fiction, thriller
Notable works	Jesus Video, Eine Billion Dollar, Herr aller Dinge
Website
andreaseschbach.de

Andreas Eschbach (born 15 September 1959, in Ulm) 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 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. His only novels translated into English was Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as The Carpet Makers, and Herr aller Dinge, published in 2014 as Lord of All Things.

Works

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), translated as Lord of All Things (2014), ISBN 978-1-47784981-1, also available as audiobook in English language
• Todesengel (2013), ISBN 978-3-7857-2481-1

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 short story-length 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

• Perry Rhodan 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)
• Das Buch von der Zukunft: Ein Reiseführer (2004), ISBN 3-87134-476-1, non-fiction

Further reading

• Sonja Fritzsche: Eco-Eschbach. Sustainability in the Science Fiction of Andreas Eschbach, in: Detectives, Dystopias, and Poplit. Studies in Modern German Fiction, ed. Bruce B. Campbell, Alison Guenther-Pal, Vibeke Rützou Petersen; Camden House, Rochester/NY 2014. S. 67–87. ISBN 978-1-57113-593-3

External links

• Official website
• Dutch fansite with book cover images
• Andreas Eschbach at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Story Behind The Carpet Makers – online essay by Eschbach
• Andreas Eschbach at Library of Congress Authorities, with 3 catalogue records