Wychwood wanted to know about German sci fi novels, and I have to admit this is a genre department in which I’m seriously underread - I think I picked up one Hans Dominik as a child, but that’s it -, with one big exception. The exception, though, is our most prominent and long-running sci fi series in any media. To which: Perry Rhodan.

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The time difference is playing havoc with my internal clock, I woke up and can't sleep anymore (it's in the middle of the night in Germany), which is why you're getting the second pic spam already. The Altai mountains cover a great deal of Mongolia, actually, but one particular part of them is between the Middle and the Southern Gobi, and that is ( Read more... )

Preface: the reason why you won't find the Star Trek transporter or the Blake's 7 bracelet depending transporter listed her is that like Dr. McCoy, I don't trust these things. I don't want to meet my evil doppelganger (or would that be my good doppelganger, in which case it's
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The Book Fair is always among many other things always a great opportunity to chat with people from the industry you rarely see. Yesterday I caught up with two of my favourite publishers of iconic German pulp fiction, Bernhard Schmidt who publishes Karl May and Klaus Frick who publishes Perry Rhodan, aka our attempt to compete with Doctor Who for ( Read more... )

( More Auma Obama,lots of men discovering women like sci fi, and a fangirl unleashed )

Yuletide sign-ups have begun! I took the plunge and joined this year. Found out there were some more fandoms I could offer without having to refresh my memory by research because I had watched/read the source material only recently. (And even written meta about them ( Read more... )