Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach ( born September 15, 1959 in Ulm ) is a German writer and bestselling author.

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Life

Eschbach studied in Stuttgart, air and space technology, but did not complete this degree, but worked as a software developer and entrepreneur, to his success as a writer allowed him to concentrate on writing.

Since 2003 he lives with his second wife, Marianne Eschbach in Brittany. Eschbach has won several awards for his work and is one of Europe's most important science fiction authors; some of his works have been translated into English ( The carpet makers in 2005 as The Carpet Makers, Lord of all things 2014 Lord Of All Things), French ( The Last of its kind in 2006 as Le Dernier de son espèce ), Italian ( The carpet makers in 2001 as Miliardi di tappeti di capelli ), Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese translated.

Artistic creation

Eschbach's first published novel The carpet makers (1995 ) can be read as a collection of short stories that all play in the same science fiction universe. This universe he engages in Quest ( 2001) again, a novel, which is designed as a classic Space Opera. Solar station ( 1996) is designed as a real thriller. With Kelwitts Star (1999) parodied Eschbach the story of ET and she laid on the Swabian Alb.

Eschbach's first bestseller is the book The Jesus Video (1998). The thriller, whose basic idea is based on a time trip, but plays completely in the present. Even further away from the fantastic to Eschbach with a trillion dollars ( 2001). Only the idea of ​​a heritage of 1,000,000,000,000 dollars, which has its origins sometime in the 16th century, is more than fantastic. The thriller is driven by the question of who and thus stops at the end of money power in his hands. At nearly 900 pages, readers are also a lot about the economy and monetary system.

The novel The Nobel Prize does not use fantastic elements, a kidnapping and extortion of a member of the Nobel Committee to bring the ball rolling. Seemingly designed Eschbach an economic thriller, but in the end we learn something surprising about the main characters, things that make the actors and the plot will appear in an entirely new light.

Burnt describes the origins and consequences of a profound energy crisis, triggered by the crossing of the global oil production peak, also referred to as "Peak Oil". With this material as a basis to Eschbach again approaches of science fiction. What will the world look like if we run out of cheap oil? Eschbach shows with this book one under the skin look to the future.

The first of several guest authors, he wrote in 1998 1935. Band of the Perry Rhodan series and could therefore fulfill a childhood dream. His second guest novel was published under the number 2295 in August 2005 and the third under the number 2503 in August 2009. A special honor was writing the anniversary band in 2700 in 2013, something that has been usually reserved for one of the main authors of the series.

From September 2001 to June 2002 be serialized novel appeared in the Sunday newspaper in 42 parts Exponentialdrift. It wove Eschbach also contemporary references into the action a. The collected sequels were then transferred with a detailed afterword about the history as a book.

His works have been translated into numerous languages ​​: Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Japanese and Turkish. In April 2005, appeared as the first translation into English his debut novel The carpet makers under the title The Carpet Makers in the U.S..

Teaching

For many years, Andreas Eschbach has been engaged as a senior consultant on writing seminars for the active literary offspring. His website offers comprehensive advice about book also has a long list of questions and answers that Eschbach answered in the course of time by e -mail. This service will continue on the web page but Eschbach has the active seminar activities ceased at the end of 2007.

On the initiative of Andreas Eschbach's a write - experiment took place under his and Klaus N. Frick's management at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel in 2005 was: 15 participants in a writing seminar wrote the rough draft of a complete novel actually within only 44 hours.

Works

Novels

  • The carpet makers. Snow Kluth, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7951-1371-7 ( set to music as an audio book 2012, ISBN 978-3-7857-4686-8 )
  • Solar station. Snow Kluth, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7951-1406-3.
  • The Jesus Video. Snow Kluth, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7951-1625-2 ( set to music as an audio book, ISBN 3-7857-1265-0 )
  • Kelwitts star. Snow Kluth, 1999, ISBN 3-404-23232-1.
  • Quest. Heyne, München 2001, ISBN 3-453-18773-3.
  • A trillion dollars. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-7857-2049-1 ( set to music as a radio radio play, 2003, ISBN 3-7857-1316-9 )
  • Exponentialdrift. Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-404-14912-2 (2002 published in installments in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
  • The last of its kind Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2003, ISBN 3-7857-2123-4 ( set to music as an audio book, 2004, ISBN 3-7857-1395-9 )
  • The Nobel Prize. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2005, ISBN 3-7857-2219-2 ( set to music as an audio book, 2005, ISBN 3-7857-3048-9 )
  • Burned out. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-2274-9 ( set to music as an audio book, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-3284-7 )
  • A king of Germany. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-2374-6 ( set to music as an audio book, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7857-4243-3 )
  • Lord of all things. Luebbe, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7857-2429-3 ( set to music as an audio book, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7857-4515-1 )
  • Angel of Death. Bastion Luebbe, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7857-2481-1 ( set to music as an audio book, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7857-4888-6 )

Youth novels

  • Perfect Copy, The Second Creation. Arena 2002, ISBN 3-401-05425-2.
  • The Mars Project, a pentalogy consisting of:
  • Out Trilogy

Short story collection

  • A pristine world. Bastion, 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-15859-1.

Short stories

  • World of disaster. 1975 as a reader of short stories in Perry Rhodan # 739 ( 1st Edition )
  • Dolls. 1991 c't - magazine for computer technology. No. 6/91, Heise Verlag
  • The man from the future. In 1995.
  • Surprise guests. 1996 Science Fiction eyepiece 151
  • The wonders of the universe. 1997 in Science Fiction Media 132
  • Beyond the mountains.
  • Druupies. 1999 Alien Contact 34
  • Humanic Park.
  • A lousy historian. 2001 Perry Rhodan magazine special edition September 2001 ( Rastatt: VPM).
  • Halloween.
  • Unauthorised advertising.
  • The dragon in the Hindu Kush.
  • Quantum garbage in: the breath of God and other visions Shayol 2004, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-926126-42-6. .
  • A Trillion Euro. Short story in the same name, edited by Andreas Eschbach anthology, 2004, ISBN 3-404-24326-9.
  • Is there life on Mars? 2009, ISBN 978-3-401-06366-9.
  • Love the Jeng.
  • LOVE HACKING or: LOVE IN THE YEAR 2064 in Bild der Wissenschaft 02/ 2014.

Other

  • Software to measure. Planning, implementation and control of IT projects. Pearson Education, 2000, ISBN 3-87791-327- X.
  • Perry Rhodan # 1935 The song of silence, Issue 1998
  • # 2295 The Return, Issue 2005
  • # 2503 The case of Dhogar, Issue 2009
  • # 2700 The Techno - moon, Issue 2013
  • An insignificant man ( Stellaris Episode 25 in Perry Rhodan # 2614 ), Issue 2011

As editor

  • A Trillion Euro, 2004, ISBN 3-404-24326-9 (contains except the eponymous story Eschbach's also contributions from other European SF writers, including Pierre Bordage, Elia Barceló, Wim Maryson, Valerio Evangelisti, Leo Luke, Wolfgang Jeschke, Michael Marrak and Marcus Hammerschmitt )

Films

  • The Jesus Video. (TV -D, 2002), directed by Sebastian Niemann, Matthias Koeberlin, Naike Rivelli, Frank Scharl and Others

Awards and honors

Time travel Eine Billion Dollar Deutscher Science Fiction Preis 2004 in literature Die Horen (Morawietz) Integrated Authority File
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