Solarstation, Schneekluth (Munich, Germany), 1996.ĭas Jesus Video, Schneekluth (Munich, Germany), 1998. WRITINGS: NOVELS IN GERMAN UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTEDĭie Haarteppichknüpfer, Schneekluth (Munich, Germany), 1995, English translation by Doryl Jensen published as The Carpet Makers, foreword by Orson Scott Card, Tor Books ( New York, NY), 2005. Software developer founder and managing director of information-technology consulting business, 1993–96.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Arno-Schmidt Foundation scholarship, 1994 prize for best novel, Science Fiction Club Deutschland, 1996, for Die Haarteppichknüpfer prize for best novel, Science Fiction Club Deutschland, and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best German novel, both 1997, both for Solarstation prize for best short story, Science Fiction Club Deutschland, 1998, for 'Die Wunder des Universums' prize for best novel, Science Fiction Club Deutschland, KurdLaßwitz-Preis, and Phantastik award for best novel, all 1999, all for Das Jesus Video, and 2004, all for Der Letzte seiner Art Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, 2000, for Kelwitts Stern, and 2002, for Quest Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for best foreign work, and Prix Bob Mo-rane for best foreign novel, both 2000, both for French translation of Die Haarteppichknüpfer Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire European prize, 2004, for Eine Trillion Euro.

Agent-Tom Doherty Associates, 175 5th Ave., New York, NY 10010. Education: Attended Technical University of Stuttgart.ĪDDRESSES: Home-France.

His skill at exposing Hard SF tropes to adult supervision intensifies a sense that further translations are in order.PERSONAL: Born September 15, 1959, in Ulm, Germany married wife's name Marianne children: one son. He remains prolific, and in recent years has also written several Young Adult works. In Das Jesus Video ( 1998), Eschbach's most popular novel to date, the manual for a not-yet-released video camera is found by archaeologists in a two-thousand-year-old grave in Palestine. (1959- ) German author who began publishing work of genre interest with 'Dolls' for c't in 1991, and whose first novel, Die Haarteppichknüpfer ( 1995 trans Doryl Jensen as The Carpet Makers 2005), intriguingly rewrites the normally expansive forms of American Planetary Romance and Space Opera into a bleak, compulsively storyable ideogram of the universe as prison: the carpets made by the titular carpet makers across the galaxy are aesthetically dead Entropic parodies of craft made for a dead Emperor, whose posthumous demands have denuded half a galaxy.

Das Jesus-Video by Andreas Eschbach