The sf-Lit Award 2021 longlist was announced September 23.

The award has been handed out by the German website sf-Lit.de (“Die Seite für Science-Fiction-Literatur”) since 2016 and is open to all works of SF that have been first published in German in the previous year, regardless of the author’s nationality or language.

Longlist

• Gabriele Behrend, Salzgras & Lavendel (p.machinery)
• Laurent Binet, Eroberung, (“Civilizations” — Translation by Kristian Wachinger) (Rowohlt)
• Blake Crouch, Gestohlene Erinnerung, (“Recursion” — Translation by Rainer Schmidt) (Goldmann)
• Christoph Dittert, Fallender Stern, (Piper)
• Ralph C. Doege, YUME. Träumen in Tokio (Septime)
• Andreas Eschbach, Eines Menschen Flügel, (Lübbe)
• Tom Hillenbrand, Qube (Hologrammatica 2), (KiWi)
• Sameena Jehanzeb, Was Preema nicht weiß, (SP)
• N.K. Jemisin, Brennender Fels (Die große Stille 2), (“The Obelisk Gate” — Translation by Susanne Gerold) (Knaur)
• Alessandra Reß, Die Türme von Eden, (Lindwurm)
• Samanta Schweblin, Hundert Augen, (“Kentukis” — Translation by Marianne Gareis) (Suhrkamp)
• Ben Smith, Dahinter das offene Meer, (“Doggerland” — Translation by Werner Löcher-Lawrence) (Liebeskind)
• Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop, (“Tales from the Loop” — Translation by Stefan Pluschkat) (Fischer Tor)