Michael Marrak

Michael Marrak (* 1965 in Weikersheim ) is a German science fiction author.

Michael Marrak studied graphic design in Stuttgart and worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. In the early 1990s he became a writer, editor and anthologist in appearance. For his work he was awarded among others with the Kurd - Laßwitz Prize and the German science fiction price.

Works

Novels and pieces

  • The City of action (novel, Edition Mono ( monochrome), Vienna 1997)
  • At the end of Beißzeit. A play for the fantastic stage ( with Gerhard Junker, play, Edition Zimmerit 1997)
  • The path of the angels ( with Agus Chuadar, play, Edition Mono ( monochrome), Vienna 1998 )
  • Lord Gamma ( novel, Shayol, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-926126-07-8, paperback edition at Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-404-24301-3 )
  • Imagon (novel, Festa Verlag, Almersbach 2002 Bastion & Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2004. ISBN 3-404-24325-0 ) Inspired by HP Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness (1936 ), the 2003 novel with the Kurd Lasswitz Prize was of German as the best SF novel of the year 2002 award.
  • Morphogenesis (novel, Bastion Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2005. ISBN 3-404-24339-0 )
  • The Aion 1 - Children of the Sun ( Ravensburger Verlag 2008 ) ISBN 978-3-473-35281-4
  • Black Prophecy - Gambit ( Panini Books 2011 ISBN 978-3-8332-2355-6. )

Short story collections

  • Monafyhr (drawings and short stories, Edition Zimmerit 1994. Contains: After the hundred days of Shean; hiking eyes The moon stairs)
  • Grave world (15 short stories 1983-86, 1996 Edition Zimmerit Rnthält. Janus, Everything has a name ... The salt of tears older gentlemen, advena, O ye creatures, the sleeping dead, hiking eyes, Exeter, crawl, Un nature - heritage, the sense Goodbye, David, The News, Nathaniel, dialogue )
  • The silence after the tone (5 novellas Edition Avalon, Berlin 1998. Contains:. Astro Sapiens, brother Oz, The silence after the tone, Sadek, The Ice Temple ) The novella The silence after the sound was established in 1999 with the German science fiction price than best short story award )
  • Armageddon Mon Amour - Five visions of the end ( with Karsten Kruschel, on 99 copies limited and signed collection of short stories, Series Maldoror 2012. Contains: Prayer for warheads - a lyrical prologue (Michael Marrak ) The silence after the sound (Michael Marrak ), Black: Power: Black ( Karsten Kruschel ) the Concaliom (Michael Marrak ), questioning techniques for a revealing conversation with the frog princess ( Karsten Kruschel ), Quo vadis, Armageddon (Michael Marrak )?

Tales and short stories (selection)

  • News from the Irrhain ( with Gerhard Junker, Story in: Jörg Martin Munsonius (ed.): Paths into the fantastic, Passau, 1996 ISBN 3-924443-83-1 EDFC Fantasia. )
  • Quo vadis, Armageddon? (Story: Franz Steiner Rottenberg (ed.), Expiration date 31.12.2000 - The Prophecy case, Aarachne Verlag, Wien 1999, ISBN 3-85255-042-4. )
  • The outcasts (Story: Andreas Eschbach (ed.), A Trillion Euro, Bergisch Gladbach: Bastion - Luebbe, 2004 ISBN 3-404-24326-9. )
  • Endemion (short story in Arkham - A Destination Guide, edited by Patrick J. Grieser, Basilisk Publishing 2006 ISBN 978-3-935706-24-7. )
  • The Kingdom of tears ( novella in: 2012 - T minus zero - A collection of world sunsets, edited by Uwe Post, Begedia -Verlag, Mülheim an der Ruhr 2012, ISBN 978-3-943795-17-2 )
  • The canon souls mechanical ( story in: Nova 20, edited by Olaf G. Hilscher and Michael K. Iwoleit, Nova Publishing, Bad Arolsen 2012, ISSN 1846-2829 )
  • Coen Sloterdykes diametrically levitating forming Chronoversum ( narration in: Nova 21, edited by Olaf G. Hilscher and Michael K. Iwoleit, Nova Publishing, Bad Arolsen, 2013, ISSN 1846-2829 )

As editor

  • The Judas Cradle ( with Agus Chuadar, Zimmerit Edition ) 1995
  • Crypterion ( Zimmerit Edition ) 1996
  • The agnostic Room 1 ( with Malte S. Sembten, Series Maldoror, ISBN 3-00-002477-8 ) 1998
  • The agnostic room 2 (with Malte S. Sembten, Series Maldoror, ISBN 3-9806683-0-4 ), 1999. Excellent 2000 with the German Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy anthology of 1999

Computer game

In cooperation with the 10tacle Studios / Reakktor Media Marrak developed the space - based massively multiplayer online game Black Prophecy, which should be published in the fourth quarter of 2008, due to the insolvency of the old publisher of this has been postponed to 2010. Under the new publisher gamigo it appeared in March 2011 and was discontinued in September 2012.

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