A Deutscher Phantastik Preis trophy beside the cover of the winning comic.
The Deutscher Phantastik Preis 2019 ceremony at BuchBerlin on November 23 honored creators
of speculative fiction published for the first time in German language during
the previous year.
In addition, history was made when a version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in Klingonese (simultaneously translated to German) won the Best Translation award. It was touted as being the first time a Klingon book ever won an award.
Bester deutscher Roman / Best German Novel
Das Vermächtnis der Grimms – Wer
hat Angst vorm bösen Wolf / Nicole Böhm / Drachenmond Verlag
Bestes deutschsprachiges Romandebüt / Best debut novel in German
Der fünfte Magier: Schneeweiß —
Christine Weber — Selfpublishing
Bestes deutschsprachiges Jugendbuch / Best German language youth
book
Loa – Die weiße Mambo — Petra
Reneé Meineke — Sad Wolf Verlag
Bester internationaler Roman / Best international novel
Elfenkrone — Holly Black — cbj
Verlag
Beste deutschsprachige Kurzgeschichte / Best German short story
Houston hat Probleme — Markus
Heitkamp — Talawah Verlag
Beste Deutsche Anthologie / Best German anthology
Noir Anthologie (1) — Mica Baram
u. a. — Sadwolf Verlag
Bestes deutschsprachiges Hörspiel/Hörbuch / Best German Language
Radio Play / Audiobook
Die Chroniken von Azuhr – Die
Weiße Königin — Bernhard Hennen — Wolfgang Wagner — Argon Verlag
Beste deutschsprachige Serie / Best German Language Series
Das Erbe der Macht — Andreas
Suchanek — Greenlight Press
Bester deutschsprachiger Grafiker /Best German-speaking Graphic
Artist
Die letzten Zeilen der Nacht —
Alexander Kopainski — Drachenmond Verlag
Bestes deutschsprachiges Sekundärwerk / Best German Language
Secondary Work (i.e., Related Work)
Es lebe Star Trek – Ein
Phänomen, zwei Leben — Björn Sülter — Verlag in Farbe und Bunt
Bester deutschsprachiger Comic / Manga / Best German Language
Comic / Manga
Capacitas — Marika Herzog —
Eigenproduktion
Sonderpreis 2019: Beste Übersetzung / Special Award 2019: Best
Translation
ta’puq mach – Der kleine Prinz
auf Klingonisch & Deutsch — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – tr. Lieven L. Litaer
— Der Verlag in Farbe und Bunt
The award honors speculative fiction published for the first time in German language during the previous year.
The winners will be picked by a public vote. Voting on the shortlist continues until June 15.
The German SFF event Phantastika 2018 has been cancelled, and taken with it this year’s Deutscher Phantastik Preis ceremony. Event organizer Mike Hillenbrand told an interviewer the award will still be presented at a time to be determined.
Deutscher Phantastik Preis Shortlist
Bester deutscher Roman / Best German Novel
Animant Crumbs Staubchronik — Lin Rina — Drachenmond Verlag
Das Geheimnis der Sternentränen — Anke Höhl-Kayser — Bookspot Verlag
Das Herz der Quelle – Sternensturm — Alana Falk — Arena Verlag
Das Koboltikum — Christian von Aster — Edition Roter Drache
Die Krone der Sterne — Kai Meyer — FISCHER Tor
Die Legende von Enyador — Mira Valentin — Selfpublisher
Bestes deutschsprachiges Romandebüt / Best debut novel in German
A Fairy Tale – Die Suche nach dem blauen Herz — Anja Stephan — Selfpublisher
Archibald Leach und die Monstrositäten des Marquis de Mortemarte — Markus Cremer — Art Skript Phantastik Verlag
Das Raunen der Flammen — Helena Gäßler — Drachenmond Verlag
Der siebte Sohn — Julia Maar — Selfpublisher
Izara – Das ewige Feuer — Julia Dippel — Planet!
Bester internationaler Roman / Best international novel
Das Herz der verlorenen Dinge [The Heart of What was Lost] — Tad Williams — Klett-Cotta
Das Lied der Krähen [Six of Crows]– Leigh Bardugo — Knaur
Nevernight – Die Prüfung [From the Dust Returned] — Jay Kristoff — FISCHER Tor
Scythe – Die Hüter des Todes — Neal Shusterman — FISCHER Sauerländer
Vier Farben der Magie [A Darker Shade of Magic] — V. E. Schwab — FISCHER Tor
Beste deutschsprachige Kurzgeschichte / Best German short story
Alissa im Drunterland — Fabienne Siegmund — Papierverzierer Verlag
Der geheimnisvolle Gefangene — Gerd Scherm — Reiten wir! – Phantastikautoren für Karl May — Edition Roter Drache
…A new game now tops those rankings: It’s called Gloomhaven, and it’s the current BoardGameGeek No. 1, having taken over the top spot this past winter. The game has won scads of awards, including more than a handful of Golden Geeks and a Scelto dai Goblin — the goblins’ choice. Its place atop the BoardGameGeek list cements its status as a flagship of the current golden age….
In Gloomhaven (which retails for $215), “players will take on the role of a wandering mercenary with their own special set of skills and their own reasons for traveling to this remote corner of the world. Players must work together out of necessity to clear out menacing dungeons and forgotten ruins.” The game’s website likens it to a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel. Just don’t forget your swords or spells. Childres attributes his game’s success, at least among the hardcore denizens of BoardGameGeek, to the way it improves on the appeal of the roleplaying of Dungeons & Dragons, in which crawling dungeons can become rote. In Gloomhaven, you have special abilities that you can use over and over, and once you use them, you can watch them make cool stuff happen. It’s heavy on the fun stuff, rather than the grind of repetitious orc slaying, and as the BoardGameGeek leaderboard shows, gamers are appreciative.
(2) ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED. ConStellation 9 in Lincoln, Nebraska says funds raised this weekend put John Picacio’s Mexicanx Initiative over the top.
#ConStellation9, a small convention in Lincoln, NE, raised $4,434 for @JohnPicacio's The Mexicanx Initiative, an effort to sponsor @worldcon2018 memberships to award to 50 Mexicanx artists, writers, filmmakers, culture shapers, & fans–and put the initiative over its goal! WOW!
(3) DPP DELAYED. The German SFF event Phantastika 2018 has been cancelled, and taken with it this year’s Deutscher Phantastik Preis ceremony. Event organizer Mike Hillenbrand told an interviewer the award will still be given, at a time to be determined:
MH: …The DPP will be back this year, and we hope to get a grant as well. The joke is that we already had a name sponsor and several category sponsors for the award ceremony, and last year we had well over 600 guests at the ceremony – and I think the DPP is too important to call it off. How, where and if there will be a ceremony, but of course we have to discuss with the editors of phantastik-news.de and then someone will make known. Soon. 🙂
Stephen Hawking book signed from 1973, shortly before Hawking was not able to write his name due to ALS. Hawking signed this book, ”The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution”, along with several other members of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge University, on the occasion of an employee leaving his job as a computer operator. Hawking signs the half-title page, ”Stephen Hawking”, in stilted, but legible writing, below the signatures of other faculty members and below the gift inscription, ”With gratitude and best wishes from the friends of the IOA computer staff.”
It was at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge where Hawking, as a research scientist, made some of his earliest scientific breakthroughs regarding black holes and quantum mechanics. Also in 1973, he published his important first book, ”The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time” which is now considered a classic and has been printed many times over. It was also at this time that ALS was overtaking Hawkings physically, and he would be confined to a wheelchair by 1975.
(5) BLACK PANTHER IN CHINA. Carl Slaughter says: “In this man on the street survey, Chinese people really open up about the Black Panther movie. Easy to read subtitles with grammatically correct translation is a major bonus.” The takes are of varying sophistication.
(6) NO BUCKS, NO BUCK ROGERS. The Verge’s space reporter Loren Grush has written a story about commercial spaceflight — with emphasis on commercial: “Product launch: a trip to the Taco Bell Space Station”. It’s satire, but is it so far from Delos Harriman’s efforts?
Over my headset, I hear the flight controller counting down on the launch live stream.
“T-minus five minutes to liftoff.”
I don’t think my heart has ever pounded this hard. I’m strapped into a seat inside one of SpaceX’s SpriteDragon™ capsules, sitting on top of a Pepsi™ Falcon 9 rocket. And I’m just 300 seconds away from my first trip to space. With every second that ticks away, my nerves send an electric shock throughout my body. I’ve never been more exhilarated or more petrified….
(7) TODAY IN HISTORY
April 22, 1953 — Invaders from Mars was released.
(8) GOTTESMAN OBIT. Star Trek fan Regina Gottesman (1948-2018) died April 17 reports Fanlore. A fanwriter and fanzine publisher, in 1982, she was nominated for a FanQaward. In a bio written at that time Gottesman said about herself:
She was involved with the New York STAR TREK conventions (The Committee Cons) from their inception, has worked on Lunacons (this year she edited the Program Book), and has attended many cons, both media and sf. TIME WARP was her first “official” ‘zine experience’, and, although no longer associated with TIME WARP (as of issue #6), she now co-edits COMLINK The STAR WARS and Media Letterzine, and has started her own’ zine, ERRANTRY….
Spend an afternoon visiting Bradbury’s greatest muse—the town now known as Green Town.
Ray Bradbury is a towering legend in the world of science fiction and horror, a man among the greats of American literature. Whether his stories were set in futuristic dystopias, nightmarish carnivals, or abandoned Martian cities, in Bradbury’s mind they all happened in Green Town—the pseudonym he gave to Waukegan, Illinois— his hometown.
Come see Waukegan, Illinois, through the eyes of Ray Bradbury with the Atlas Obscura Society Chicago. You’ll get a peek into the mind of the author as we are guided to places that toe the line between his life and his fiction. Walk the streets that both Ray and his characters walked, while seeing the places that molded the mind of one of the most creative authors of the last century.
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Why did Alfred the Butler have to die?
How did the Comics Code create Eclipso?
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(11) POETRY JUDGE. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has named John W. Sexton as the judge of its 2018 Speculative Poetry Contest. The contest opens June 1st. More details can be found here.
John W. Sexton was born in 1958 and lives in the Republic of Ireland. He is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent being the imminent Futures Pass, from Salmon Poetry. His earlier collections include Vortex (2005), Petit Mal (2009) and The Offspring of the Moon(2013). He also created and wrote The Ivory Tower for RTÉ Radio, which ran to over one hundred half-hour episodes from 1999 to 2002. Two novels based on the characters from this series have been published by the O’Brien Press: The Johnny Coffin Diaries and Johnny Coffin School-Dazed, which have been translated into both Italian and Serbian. Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva,which has been released on Track Records. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem “The Green Owl” won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007. Also in 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. (Photo of John W. Sexton courtesy of Niall Hartnett.)
The contest chair is Holly Lyn Walrath:
The SFPA is honored to have Holly Lyn Walrath as our 2018 contest chair to coordinate this process. Sheis a writer of poetry and short fiction. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Liminality, Eye to the Telescope, and elsewhere. She is a freelance editor and volunteer with Writespace literary center in Houston, Texas. Find her on Twitter @HollyLynWalrath or at hlwalrath.com.
(12) DEADPOOL SCOOPS. ScreenRant guides you to “25 Deadpool Easter Eggs And Secrets Only True Fans Noticed.”
I love that the entire plot of John Scalzi’s newest novel, Head On, hinges on a cat.
I mean, it’s such a stupid idea. It’s a gimmick that’s been played straight, played crooked, played backwards and forwards in so many stories that there’s just no trope-life left in it. Cat as McGuffin. Cat as material witness. Cat as embodiment of damsels in distress. It’s the literary equivalent of Scooby Doo and the gang pulling the rubber mask off old Mr. McGillicutty the groundskeeper because he was the pirate ghost all along.
And I love that Scalzi did it anyway. Mostly because he found a new way to use it (in addition to all the old ways in which he absolutely uses Donut the cat) which, in conforming so literally to the defining nature of science fiction, somehow makes it seem new and fresh. The #1 thing that defines science fiction — that separates I, Robot from War and Peace — is that technology (no matter what it is) must play a pivotal role in the development of the plot. Read: It ain’t enough just to have spaceships, the spaceships have to matter, get it?
The under-representation of bisexuality on screen has been debated for a number of years, and some have seized on bisexual lighting as an empowering visual device.
But is it really a tool to represent bisexuality, or are people reading too much into neon-tinged stylisation?
(16) THIRD ROBOT THEME. “Europe’s Mars rover takes shape” — it can wheel-walk out of sand traps that ended Spirit. They’re building three: one to stress-test, one to send, and one to test fixes on. Chip Hitchcock asks, “Wonder if anyone’s hoping it will be used for signaling as in The Martian)?”
So, here it is. Europe’s Mars rover. Or rather, a copy of it.
This is what they call the Structural Thermal Model, or STM. It is one of three rovers that will be built as part of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars 2020 mission to search for life on the Red Planet. And, no, we’re not sending all three to the Red Planet.
The STM is used to prove the design. It will go through a tough testing regime to check the rover that does launch to Mars – the “flight model” – will be able to cope with whatever is thrown at it.
What’s the third robot for? It stays on Earth and is used to troubleshoot any problems. If mission control needs to re-write a piece of software to overcome some glitch on the flight rover, the patch will be trialled first on the “engineering model” before being sent up to the Red Planet.
(17) TO BOLDLY MEDDLE. This is funny. See the image at the link. (Because it might not be polite of me to gank an image belonging to a Deviant Art artist. I’m not sure.)
A repaint of the Galileo shuttle as the Mystery Machine. Now comes the question of what those Meddling Kids would be in the Trekverse. Velma, of course, would be a Vulcan but I’m not sure as to what the rest would be. Any ideas?
[Thanks to Martin Morse Wooster, Carl Slaughter, JJ, John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, Chip Hitchcock, Andrew Porter, Andrew Liptak, and Mike Kennedy for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day JJ.]
The winners of the 2017 Deutscher Phantastik Preis were announced September 2 at Phantastika 2017 in Oberhausen, Germany. The award honors speculative fiction published for the first time in German language during the previous year. The winners were picked by a public vote hosted by the online magazine Phamtastik-News.de.
Deutscher Phantastik Preis Winners
Bester deutscher Roman / Best German Novel
Kai Meyer — Die Seiten der Welt: Blutbuch — FISCHER FJB
Bestes deutschsprachiges Romandebüt / Best debut novel in German
Nicole Gozdek — Die Magie der Namen — ivi
Bester internationaler Roman / Best international novel
Mirjam H. Hüberli — Rebell: Gläserner Zorn — Drachenmond-Verlag
Beste deutschsprachige Kurzgeschichte / Best German short story
Andreas Eschbach — Acapulco! Acapulco! — René Moreau
Beste Original-Anthologie/Kurzgeschichten-Sammlung / Best anthology/story collection
Christian Handel — Hinter Dornenhecken und Zauberspiegeln — Drachenmond-Verlag
Bestes deutschsprachiges Hörspiel/Hörbuch / Best German Language Radio Play / Audiobook
Cornelia Funke — Drachenreiter – Die Feder eines Greifs — Atmende Bücher/Oetinger
Beste deutschsprachige Serie / Best German Language Series
Die Chroniken der Seelenwächter — Greenlight Press
Bester deutschsprachiger Grafiker /Best German-speaking Graphic Artist
Alexander Kopainski — Die Legenden von Karinth (Band 1) — Sternensand
Bestes deutschsprachiges Sekundärwerk / Best German Language Secondary Work (i.e., Related Work)
Markus May, Michael Baumann u. a. — Die Welt von »Game of Thrones«: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf George R.R. Martins »A Song of Ice and Fire« — transcript
Bester deutschsprachiger Comic / Best German Language Comic
Markus Heitz, Che Rossié u. a. — Die Zwerge: Band 2. Der Thronanwärter — Splitter-Verlag
Voting is open through April 17 to determine the five finalists for the 2017 Deutscher Phantastik Preis. The award honors speculative fiction published for the first time in German language during the previous year. The longlist is created by an independent jury, and in the first round voters also are allowed to vote for write-ins.
Once the short list is determined, winners will be picked by a public vote hosted by the online magazine Phamtastik-News.de.
Deutscher Phantastik Preis Longlist
Bester deutscher Roman / Best German Novel
Thomas Finn — Dark Wood — Knaur TB
Karsten Kruschel — Das Universum nach Landau: Roman in Dokumenten und Novellen — Wurdack
A. S. Bottlinger — Der Fluch des Wüstenfeuers — Klett-Cotta
Bernd Perplies und Christian Humberg — Der Goldene Machtkristall (Die unheimlichen Fälle des Lucius Adler, Band 1) — Thienemann Verlag in der Thienemann-Esslinger Verlag GmbH
T. S. Orgel — Die Blausteinkriege 2 – Sturm aus dem Süden — Heyne Verlag
Bettina Belitz — Die Diamantkrieger-Saga – La Lobas Versprechen — cbt
Kai Meyer — Die Seiten der Welt: Blutbuch — FISCHER FJB
Katharina Seck — Die silberne Königin — Bastei Lübbe
Dirk van den Boom — Die Welten der Skiir 1: Prinzipat — Cross Cult
E. S. Schmidt — Die zweite Finsternis — Papierverzierer Verlag
C. M. Hafen — Drachensichel — O’Connell Press
Carina Zacharias — Emba – Magische Wahrheit: Band 2 — beBEYOND by Bastei Entertainment
Susanne Pavlovic — Feuerjäger 3: Das Schwert der Königin — Amrûn Verlag
Tommy Krappweis — Ghostsitter, Band 03: Hilfe, Zombie-Party! — Egmont Schneiderbuch
Vanessa Kaiser, Thomas Lohwasser u. a. — Herbstlande — Low, Torsten
Christoph Marzi — London: Ein Uralte Metropole Roman — Heyne Verlag
Andreas Brandhorst — Omni — Piper
Laurence Horn — Rodinia – Die Rückkehr des Zauberers — Papierverzierer Verlag
Robert Corvus — Rotes Gold: Die Schwertfeuer-Saga 1 — Piper Taschenbuch
Michael Masberg — Salon der Schatten — Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH
Annie J. Dean — Seelenhauch — Dark Diamonds
Christian Humberg und Bernd Perplies — Star Trek – Prometheus 1-3 — Cross Cult
Andreas Eschbach — Teufelsgold — Bastei Lübbe
Markus Heitz — Wédora – Staub und Blut — Knaur HC
Dominique Stalder — Der Wanderer: Band 1: Die Schwarzen Klippen — SadWolf Verlag
Carolin Wahl — Die Traumknüpfer — Heyne Verlag
Bestes deutschsprachiges Romandebüt / Best debut novel in German
Nadine Erdmann — Cyberworld — Greenlight Press
Nicole Gozdek — Die Magie der Namen — ivi
Katharina Fiona Bode — Erasmus Emmerich und die Maskerade der Madame Mallarmé — Art Skript Phantastik
Ivar Leon Menger, Anette Strohmeyer u. a. — Monster 1983 — Audible GmbH
Bodo Traber — Nachtexpress — WDR
Neil Gaiman — Niemalsland — Bastei Lübbe
André Wiesler — Protektor: Monsterjäger mit Sockenschuss — Verlag Torsten Low
Stuart Kummer und Edgar Linscheid — The Cruise — Folgenreich
Markus Heitz — Wédora – Staub und Blut — Audible GmbH
Beste deutschsprachige Serie / Best German Language Series
Aurora — Papierverzierer Verlag
BattleTech — Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH
Chroniken von Chaos und Ordnung — Acabus Verlag
D9E – Die neunte Expansion — Wurdack
Das Erbe der Macht — Greenlight Press
Die Chroniken der Seelenwächter — Greenlight Press
Die Phileasson Saga — Heyne Verlag
Die Scareman-Saga — Atlantis Verlag
Frost & Payne-Reihe — Greenlight Press
Gladium — Amrûn Verlag
Heliosphere 2265 — Greenlight Press
Maddrax — Bastei Entertainment
PERRY RHODAN-Arkon — Perry Rhodan digital
Perry Rhodan-Trivid — Perry Rhodan digital
Professor Zamorra — Bastei Entertainment
RACK — Papierverzierer Verlag
Sky-Troopers — Saphir im Stahl
Spiegelmagie — Machandel-Verlag
Wächter-Chroniken — Papierverzierer Verlag
Bester deutschsprachiger Grafiker /Best German-speaking Graphic Artist
Arndt Drechsler — Die zweite Finsternis — Papierverzierer Verlag
Martin Frei — Das Ende des Regenbogens — Cross Cult
Mark Freier — Weltentor: Fantasy — NOEL-Verlag
Birgit Gitschier — Der Fluch des Wüstenfeuers — Klett-Cotta
Vivien Heinz — Shut Down – Du hast nur 24 Stunden — Chicken House
Alexander Kopainski — Die Legenden von Karinth (Band 1) — Sternensand
Tina Köpke — Brautsee — Papierverzierer Verlag
Timo Kümmel — Niemand – Mehr! — Fabylon
Stefanie Kurt — Hourglass Wars – Jahr der Schatten (Band 2) — in Farbe und Bunt
Melanie Philippi — Rodinia – Die Rückkehr des Zauberers — Papierverzierer Verlag
Nadine Schäkel — Aventurischer Almanach — Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH
Juliane Schneeweiss — Tiranorg: Schwertliebe — Create Space
Dirk Schulz — Arkon 5: Der Smiler und der Hund — Perry Rhodan digital
Helge Vogt — Magnus Chase – Das Schwert des Sommers — Carlsen
Bestes deutschsprachiges Sekundärwerk / Best German Language Secondary Work (i.e., Related Work)
Burkhard Ihme, Christian Endres u. a. — COMIC!-Jahrbuch 2017 — Buch Musik & Film
Corona Magazine — in Farbe und Bunt
Hannes Riffel — Das Science Fiction Jahr 2016 — Golkonda Verlag
Olivia Vieweg und Klaus Vieweg — Die Philosophie in Star Trek — Cross Cult
Markus May, Michael Baumann u. a. — Die Welt von »Game of Thrones«: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf George R.R. Martins »A Song of Ice and Fire« — transcript
Geek!-Magazin — Panini Verlags GmbH
Julian Eilmann — J. R. R. Tolkien – Romantiker und Lyriker — Oldib Verlag
phantastisch! neues aus anderen welten — Atlantis Verlag
The shortlist for the 2016 Deutscher Phantastik Preis (DPP) has been announced. The award honors speculative fiction published for the first time in German language during the previous year. Winners are picked by a public vote hosted by the online magazine Phamtastik-News.de.
The final round of voting is open until July 17. The winners will be recognized at a ceremony on October 22 at BuchmesseCon in Frankfurt, Germany.
Bester deutschsprachiger Roman / Best novel in German language
The 2015 winners of the Deutscher Phantastik Preis for speculative fiction in the German language were announced at BuchmesseCon in Dreieich on October 17. (Via Nina Horvath at Europa SF, who provided the English translations.)
Best Novel in German language
Bernd Perplies: Imperium der Drachen – Das Blut des Schwarzen Löwen
Best Debut Novel in German
Silke M. Meyer: Lux & Umbra 1 – Der Pfad der schwarzen Perle
Best International Novel
Neil Gaiman: Der Ozean am Ende der Straße (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
Best German Short Story
Vanessa Kaiser und Thomas Lohwasser: “Der letzte Gast” (published in the anthology Dunkle Stunden)
Best Anthology/Story Collection
Steampunk Akte Deutschland
Best Book Series
DSA – Das Schwarze Auge
Best Graphic Artist
Arndt Drechsler
Best Work on Secondary Literature
Christian Humberg & Andrea Bottlinger: Geek, Pray, Love: Ein praktischer Leitfaden für das Leben, das Fandom und den ganzen Rest
The shortlist for the Deutscher Phantastik Preis (DPP) has been announced. The annual award honors speculative fiction published for the first time in German language during the previous year. Winners are picked by a public vote hosted by the online magazine Phantastik-News.de.
The final round of voting is open until July 19. The winners will be recognized at a ceremony on October 17 at BuchmesseCon in Dreieich, Germany.
