The Black Mirror And Other Stories Author:Franz Rottensteiner (Editor), Mike Mitchell (Translator) The Black Mirror & Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction From Germany & Austria -- delivers great reading and an overview of German-language science fiction, with select bibliographies of German-language science fiction writers. — Contents: — Acknowledgments — Introduction: A Short History of Scienc... more »e Fiction in German
The Pioneers: Science Fiction before World War I
* To the Absolute Zero of Existence (Germany, 1871) / Kurd Lasswitz;
* Apoikis (Germany, 1882) / Kurd Lasswitz;
* Jules Verne in Hell (Austria, 1906) / Ludwig Hevesi;
* The Martian Spy (Germany, 1908) / Carl Grunert;
* Malvu the Helmsman (Germany, 1912) / Paul Scheerbart;
Between the World Wars
* The Missing Clock Hands (Germany, 1929) / Otto Willi Gail;
* Is the Earth Inhabited? (Austria, 1931) / Egon Friedell;
* A Free Flight in 2222 (Germany, 1934) / Hans Dominik;
German Science Fiction Comes into Its Own after World War II
* Thought Control (Austria, 1961) / Herbert W. Franke;
* Welcome Home (Austria, 1961) / Herbert W. Franke;
* Meteorites (Austria, 1961 / Herbert W. Franke;
* Say It with Flowers (Austria, 1980) / Ernst Vlcek;
* Just One Summer (Germany, 1985) / Carl Amery;
* The Age of the Burning Mountains (Germany, 1989) / Horst Pukallus;
Science Fiction from the German Democratic Republic
* A Visit to Parsimonia (1981) / Johanna Braun, Gunter Braun;
* The Black Mirror (1983) / Erik Simon;
* The Eye That Never Weeps (1984) / Angela Steinmuller, Karlheinz Steinmuller;
The Current Generation: From the 1990's to the Present
* A Letter from the Other Side (Austria, 1994) / Peter Schattschneider;
* Partners for Life (Germany, 1961) / Wolfgang Jeschke;
* Astrosapiens (Germany, 1998) / Michael Marrak;
* Project 38 or The Game of Small Causes (Germany, 2003) / Thursten Kuper;
* Planck Time (Germany, 2004) / Michael K. Iwoleit;
* Hitler on the Campaign Trail in America (Germany, 2004) / Oliver Menkel;
* Habemus Papam (Austria, 2005) / Helmuth W. Mommers;
* Mother's Flowers (Germany, 2008) / Andreas Eschbach;