Monday Original Content: An Interview with Frank Haubold

German author Frank Habuold is a winner of the Kurd-Laßwitz Award. He is the author, with Gill Ainsworth, of the collection Seasons of Insanity, published by Apex Books. Frank Haubold interviewed by Charles Tan Hi Frank! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, how did you first become acquainted with science fiction and fantasy?...

Some Remarks on Current German Science Fiction by Michael K. Iwoleit

Michael Iwoleit is the brain behind Internova, the online magazine for International Science Fiction, and an inspiration to us here at the World SF Blog. He offers Some Remarks on Current German Science Fiction: German science fiction has had a rough ride of it since the boom time of the early eighties, when at one...

Internova update and call for volunteers

There seems to be a sudden explosion in international SF magazines, with the latest being International Speculative Fiction - check it out, they've just published Aliette de Bodard's Butterfly, Falling at Dawn! The first such magazine, however - the guys who inspired me to eventually edit The Apex Book of World SF and start the World...

Interview with German writer/translator Cora Buhlert

Ty Johnson interviews German writer and translator Cora Buhlert: Besides being a writer, you also offer translation services from German to English and English to German, and are a native German speaker. Do you feel this gives you a nearly unique perspective as a writer? Do you think it affects how you approach writing? Well,...

Five Continent Reading in Second Life

Michael Iwoleit got in touch recently to tell us of an incredibly cool thing he's organising - a virtual book reading in the world of Second Life, by 5 science fiction authors each from a different continent! Michael writes: On May 5th an event will take place in Thorsten Küper’s and Kirsten Riehl’s steampunk location...

Editorial: ESC – The European Steampunk Convention, by Marcus Rauchfuss

Today on the WSB, Marcus Rauchfuss of Germany writes for us about his plans for a European Steampunk Convention. ESC - The European Steampunk Convention By Marcus Rauchfuss Some weeks ago, I was twittering with Lavie and he suggested that what Europe needed was a big steampunk convention. Thus, the idea for ESC – The European...

Women writers, international writers, marginalized writers

German writer Cora Buhlert has a post on Women writers, international writers, marginalized writers well-worth reading: There are the subtle and not so subtle assumptions that your grasp of the English language will be flawed, because you are not a native speaker (Read what Juliette Wade has to say about that here). This must be even more...

Islamscifi.com Interviews Achmed Khammas

Islamscifi.com interview Achmed Khammas: Backgound: This is the first interview in a series of interviews with Muslim Science Fiction authors and people who have written about Sciene Fiction with Islamic themes. Achmed Adolf Wolfgang Khammas has written on the subject of the lack of Science Fiction in Arabic Literature and has written Sciene Fiction stories...

German Science Fiction Before (And During) World War II

Our friends at Concatenation have posted a new article by Elmar Podlasly, German Science Fiction Up to 1945: So, what was science fiction literature like in Nazi-Germany? That is not an easy question to answer as there has not a lot been written about the subject. Texts about German SF usually end in 1933 and start again 1945....

Unseen Mainland European SF Classics

Over an Concatenation (a very valuable resource), there is an article entitled Unseen Mainland European SF Classics which was "written as a precursor to the Euroconference Odyssey 2010 in London and a panel on this topic". They highlight various works from France, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, and Spain. Here's an excerpt: If you happen to...