The shortlist for the 2016 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, the best-known sf award in Germany, has been announced.

The award, named after early sf author Kurd Laßwitz (1848–1910), has been given since 1981 to exceptional German sf works and translations. For more information (in German) see the official site here.

The translations of the category titles are via Nina Horvath at Europa SF.

Best German Science-Fiction Novel (published for the first time in 2015):

• DirAndreas Brandhorst: “Das Schiff” (Piper)
• Robert Corvus: “Grauwacht” (Piper)
• Dietmar Dath: “Venus siegt!” (Hablizel)
• Matthias Falke: “Kampf mit den Tloxi” (Begedia)
• Frank W. Haubold: “Götterdämmerung”-Trilogie (Atlantis)
• Frank Hebben: “Der Algorithmus des Meeres” (Begedia)
• Axel Kruse: “Glühsterne” (p.machinery)
• Harald Martenstein & Tom Peuckert: “Schwarzes Gold aus Warnemünde” (Aufbau)
• Phillip P. Peterson: “Paradox – Am Abgrund der Ewigkeit” (Bastei Lübbe)
• Leif Randt: “Planet Magnon” (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

Best German Short Prosa:

• Kilian Braun: “Überwachung dringend empfohlen” (in “Weltentor 2015 Science Fiction”, Noel)
• Christian Endres: “Out of Memory” (in “Exodus” 33)
• Uwe Hermann: “Versuchsreihe 13” (in: Uwe Hermann: “Das Amt für versäumte Ausgaben”)
• Karsten Kruschel: “Was geschieht dem Licht am Ende des Tunnels?” (in: “Nova” 23, Amrûn)
• Michael Marrak: “Das Lied der Wind-Auguren” (in: “Nova” 23, Amrûn)
• Jacqueline Montemurri: “Sonnenmondfinsternisstern” (in: Peggy Weber (Hrsg.): “Die Magnetische Stadt”, Verlag für Moderne Phantastik)
• Uwe Post: “Cyber Space Pirates Yo-Ho!” (in: “c’t” 25/2015, Heise)
• Gard Spirlin: “Robowrite” (in: “c’t” 9/2015, Heise)

Best Foreign Science-Fiction Book (translated into German):

• Lauren Beukes: “Moxyland” [Moxyland] (Rowohlt)
• Monica Byrne: “Die Brücke” [The Girl in the Road] (Heyne)
• Peter F. Hamilton: “Der Abgrund jenseits der Träume” [The Abyss Beyond Dreams] (Piper)
• Ann Leckie: “Die Maschinen” [Ancillary Justice]  (Heyne)
• China Miéville: “Das Gleismeer” [Railsea] (Heyne)
• Claire North: “Die vielen Leben des Harry August” [The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August] (Lübbe)
• Emily St. John Mandel, Das Licht der letzten Tage [Station Eleven] (Piper)
• Neal Stephenson: “Amalthea” [Seveneves] (Manhattan)
• Michael J. Sullivan: “Zeitfuge” [Hollow World] (Heyne)
• Jeff VanderMeer: “Southern Reach”-Trilogie [Southern Reach Trilogy] (Kunstmann)
• Jo Walton: “Der Tag der Lerche” [Ha’penny] (Golkonda)

Best Science-Fiction Translation:

• Eva Bauche-Eppers for the translation of China Miéville: “Das Gleismeer”
• Eva Bauche-Eppers & Elvira Bittner & Frank Böhmert & Sabrina Gmeiner & Laura Scheifinger & Andrea Stumpf & Margo Jane Warnken & Samuel N. D. Wohl for the translation of James Tiptree jr: “Liebe ist der Plan (Septime)
• Bernhard Kempen for the translation of Ann Leckie: “Die Maschinen” (Heyne)
• Nora Lachmann for the translation of Jo Walton: “Der Tag der Lerche” (Golkonda)

Best Cover Picture or Illustration:

• Dirk Berger for the cover of: “phantastisch!” 59 (Atlantis)
• Dirk Berger for the cover of: “Nova” 23 (Amrûn)
• Mario Franke for the cover of: “Leipzig – Visionen gestern und heute” (Edition Solar-X)
• Timo Kümmel for the cover of: “Exodus” 33
• Michael Vogt for the cover of: “phantastisch!” 60 (Atlantis)

Best German Audio Play:

• “Draußen unter freiem Himmel” by Michaela Falkner (WDR)
• “Sale” by Georg Heinzen (WDR)

Special Award for Extraordinary Achievements (One time):

• Birgit Fischer & Roger Murmann for the organization of WetzCon II
• Hardy Kettlitz for his non-fiction book “Die Hugo Awards 1953-1984”
• Thomas Braatz & Ralf Eiben & Manfred Orlowski & Freundeskreis Science Fiction Leipzig for being editors of “Leipzig – Visionen gestern und heute”
• Hannes Riffel & Sascha Mamczak & the Golkonda-Team for continuing their science-fiction yearbook

Special Award for Extraordinary Achievements (Over years):

• Arno Behrend & Gabriele Behrend & Torsten Frantz & Utz Benscheid & Irma Leu & Lars Adler & Michael Ehrt &
•  Astrid Ehrt for organizing the DortCon The Team around Klaus N. Frick & Klaus Bollhöfener & Katrin Weil for organizing the Galaktische Forum
• Roger Murmann & Christian de Ahna & Birgit Fischer & Kurt Zelt for 30 years of Buchmessecon
• Hannes Riffel & Karl Heinz Schlögl für fünf Jahre Golkonda Verlag
• Jürgen Schütz for publishing the entire works of James Tiptree jr. in his publishing house Septime