Andreas Eschbach | |
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 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 |
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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.
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. Nine 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, Serbian, Polish, Turkish, Japanese and Portuguese.
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 were Die Haarteppichknüpfer, published in 2005 as The Carpet Makers , Herr aller Dinge, published in 2014 as Lord of All Things, and Perry Rhodan 0 -- Das größte Abenteuer:Roman, in 2023 as Perry Rhodan 0 -- The Greatest Adventure: Novel.
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| The carpetmaker's son | 2001 | Eschbach, Andreas (January 2001). Translated by Doryl Jensen. "The carpetmaker's son". F&SF . 100 (1): 37–41. | Originally published in German as "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" in the Dec 1985 issue of Flugasche. | |
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