Andreas Eschbach


Andreas Eschbach is a German writer, primarily of science fiction. His stories that are not clearly in the SF genre usually feature elements of the fantastic.

Biography

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 and Japanese.
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, and Herr aller Dinge, published in 2014 as Lord of All Things.

Novels

;Young Adult novels
  1. Das ferne Leuchten,
  2. Die blauen Türme,
  3. Die gläsernen Höhlen,
  4. Die steinernen Schatten,
  5. Die schlafenden Hüter,
  6. Gibt es Leben auf dem Mars oder Das Marsprojekt – der flüsternde Sturm,
  1. Black*Out,
  2. Hide*Out,
  3. Time*Out,
  1. Aquamarin,
  2. Submarin,
  3. Ultramarin,

    Short fiction

;Collections
;Stories
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
The carpetmaker's son2001Originally published in German as "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" in the Dec 1985 issue of Flugasche.

;Contributions to the Perry Rhodan series
;Anthologies