![]() ![]() Wells’ War of the Worlds, but with a completely different impetus: for Lasswitz it was all about peace and reconciliation between the two planets. Two Planets is the story of the first encounter with Martians and was published at almost the same time as H. Perry Rhodan is still published today, but of course German language science fiction has far more to offer. Attempts were made to emulate this at the start of the 1960s with the Perry Rhodan magazine series. In the post-war era it was almost exclusively American science fiction that was popular in Germany. Nevertheless in this country we have always struggled a little with science fiction (SF), which was primarily because the twelve years of Nazi rule interrupted this line of tradition in the 1930s. Hoffmann imagined the first artificial humans in Der Sandmann ( The Sandman 1816), and Fritz Lang was the first to bring the sci-fi film to an artistic level with Metropolis (1927). Germany has a great science fiction tradition that goes back a long way: Der Traum ( Somnium or The Dream 1634) by astronomer Johannes Kepler was the first story ever to substantiate space travel in science, E.T.A. Friendly Martians, artificial intelligence hunting down criminals and a Bolshevik revolution in Switzerland: ten science fiction novels written in German that you need to know about. ![]()
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