Utopia (German science fiction)
Utopia Science Fiction was the first West German science fiction pulp novel series and appeared from 1953 until 1968 596 expenditure Erich Pabel Verlag, Rastatt.
Concept, authors
Utopia appeared every 14 days initially with 48 pages for the price of 50 cents. The first 43 volumes were circling around the space adventures of the protagonist Jim Parker. The " Jim Parker's Space Adventure " books were written all under the Verlagspseudonym Alf Tjörnsen.
After spending appeared both German and translations of Anglo-American authors, which was at times trying to establish another series heroes like Mark Powers and Chet Morrow in the series, but this failed. Some Jim Parker editions continued to appear. Mark Powers received from 1962-1966 its own series, but the attempt to build on the success of the dominant series Perry Rhodan, failed after 48 issues.
Although works by Clark Darlton, Karl -Herbert Scheer, Murray Leinster, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Brian W. Aldiss or John Brunner have been published that had been partially heavily cut to the magazine size down, the bulk of the spending came initially from the Leihbuchproduktion:
" A review of the 596 published titles shows that the majority of the publications is the dregs of Science Fiction: most banal Products German writers ... and usually katastropahle translations also have third-rate foreign SF writer ... Among the last 200 volumes, however, were Anthologies of - measured by the Standard of staplers novels - some exquisite quality ... "
Regardless of Utopia was the reason for the Munich Moewig -Verlag, from 1957, the own series to bring Terra Utopian novels as a competitor on the market. Terra appeared in 555 editions until 1968 and was continued with Terra Nova ( pulp novel series ) or Terra Astra.
Both Utopia and Terra was in the 1950/60er years Introductory literature for young science fiction readers and offered limited first publication opportunities for young authors.
Besides series
Utopia bulk band
This pulp novel series published from 1954 to 1963 in 204 editions and was initially supervised by Clark Darlton, among other things, the letters page meteorites by Alpers made to a first forum for German science fiction fans. The quality of translations suffered as in the main series under the rigorous cuts.
Utopia Future paperbacks
From 1960 to 1967 published ten issues within the series Pabel paperbacks.
Utopia Utopia Crime and Criminal
The pulp novel series published from 1956 to 1958 in 26 issues. Originally published in the series Utopia Great band, failed the series, as the sub-genre of detective fiction utopian not proved to be marketable. The experiment of horror ( Une Chose Dans la Nuit ) and Benoit Becker: In the series, two French novels of Jean David released The Death Spider ( Expedition Terror ).
Utopia magazine
Originally conceived in 1955 as Utopia special volume, which appeared initially 128 -page magazine from Issue No. 3-1959 under the new title and reached 26 issues. It was the first attempt of Pabel - publishing, SF expand its program; It was published by Clark Darlton.
The magazine was a good mix of illustrated short stories mostly of U.S. origin, scientific articles, book reviews and letters to the editor. The stories came in part from Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke or Ray Bradbury. Darlton gave the magazine later to Walter Spiegl ( pseudonyms Horsley Bert and Bert Koeppen ).