- Author: Franz Rottensteiner Author Record # 10982
- Legal Name: Rottensteiner, Franz
- Birthplace: Waidmannsfeld, Lower Austria, Austria, Germany
- Birthdate: 18 January 1942
- Language: German
- Webpages: 50watts.com, SFE3, Wikipedia-DE, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Rottensteiner
- Author Tags: on german sf (9), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (2), Herbert W. Franke (2), original anthology (2), Stanislaw Lem (1), H. G. Wells (1), Ronald M. Hahn (1), H. P. Lovecraft (1), music (1), Curt Siodmak (1), Carl Amery (1)
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Magazine Editor Series
- Quarber Merkur
- Quarber Merkur, 91/92 (2000)
- Quarber Merkur, 97/98 (2003)
- Quarber Merkur, 103/104 (2006)
- Quarber Merkur, 105/106 (2007)
- Quarber Merkur, 107/108 (2008)
- Quarber Merkur, 109/110 (2009)
- Quarber Merkur, 111 (2010)
- Quarber Merkur, 112 (2011)
- Quarber Merkur, 113 (2012)
- Quarber Merkur, 114 (2013)
- Quarber Merkur, 115 (2014)
- Ablaufdatum 31.12.2000 - Die Prophezeiungs-Falle
- Weltuntergänge en detail (1999)
- Weltuntergänge en gros (1999)
- Die Ratte im Labyrinth (1971)
-
View from Another Shore [English] (1973)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Andere Werelden, Andere Kusten [Dutch] (1976)
- Translation: Blick vom anderen Ufer [German] (1977)
- Translation: Buonanotte Sofia [Italian] (1997)
- Die andere Zukunft (1982)
- Phantastische Träume (1983)
-
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination [English] (1984)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Ermordung des Drachen [German] (1985)
- Phantastische Welten (1984)
- Phantastische Zeiten (1986)
- Viktorianische Gespenstergeschichten (1987)
- Seltsame Labyrinthe (1987)
- Der Eingang ins Paradies und andere phantastische Erzählungen (1988)
- Arche Noah (1989)
- Die Sirene und andere phantastische Erzählungen (1990)
- Phantastische Begegnungen (1990)
- Phantastisches aus Österreich (1995)
- The Best of Austrian Science Fiction [English] (2001)
- The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria [English] (2008)
-
The Science Fiction Book [English] (1975)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Het Science Fiction Boek: Een Geschiedenis met 216 Illustraties [Dutch] (1975)
- Translation: La science fiction illustrée: Une histoire de la S.F. [French] (1975)
- The Fantasy Book: The Ghostly, the Gothic, the Magical, the Unreal [English] (1978)
- Über H. P. Lovecraft (1984)
- 90 Jahre Herbert W. Franke
- Author and Shortfiction Introductions for 'The Black Mirror'
- Andreas Eschbach: "Mother's Flowers" [English] (2008)
- Angela Steinmüller & Karlheinz Steinmüller: "The Eye That Never Weeps" [English] (2008)
- Carl Amery: "Just One Summer" [English] (2008)
- Carl Grunert: "The Martian Spy" [English] (2008)
- Egon Friedell: "Is the Earth Inhabited?" [English] (2008)
- Erik Simon: "The Black Mirror" [English] (2008)
- Ernst Vlcek: "Say It With Flowers" [English] (2008)
- Hans Dominik: "A Free Flight in 2222" [English] (2008)
- Helmuth W. Mommers: "Habemus Papam" [English] (2008)
- Herbert W. Franke: "Thought Control"; "Welcome Home"; and "Meteorites" [English] (2008)
- Horst Pukallus: "The Age of the Burning Mountains" [English] (2008)
- Johanna Braun & Günter Braun: "A Visit to Parsimonia. A Scientific Report" [English] (2008)
- Kurd Lasswitz: "Apoikis" [English] (2008)
- Kurd Lasswitz: "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371" [English] (2008)
- Ludwig Hevesi: "Jules Verne in Hell: A Letter to the Editor from the Late Writer" [English] (2008)
- Michael K. Iwoleit: "Planck Time" [English] (2008)
- Michael Marrak: "Astrosapiens" [English] (2008)
- Oliver Henkel:"Hitler on the Campaign Trail in America" [English] (2008)
- Otto Willi Gail: "The Missing Clock Hands: An Implausible Happening" [English] (2008)
- Paul Scheerbart: "Malvu the Helmsman: A Story of Vesta" [English] (2008)
- Peter Schattschneider: "A Letter from the Other Side" [English] (2008)
- Thorsten Küper: "Project 38 or the Game of Small Causes" [English] (2008)
- Wolfgang Jeschke: "Partners for Life" [English] (2008)
- Biographies for Bibliographisches Lexikon der utopisch-phantastischen Literatur
- Carl Amery: Biographie (1984)
- Herbert W. Franke: Biographie (1984)
- Paul Gurk: Biographie (1984)
- Paul Scheerbart: Biographie (1984)
- Stanislaw Lem: Biographie (1984)
- Ursula K. LeGuin: Biographie (1984)
- Josef Nesvadba: Biographie (1985)
- Mervyn Peake: Biographie (1985)
- Alexander Kasanzew: Biographie (1985)
- Bram Stoker: Biographie (1985)
- Hanns Heinz Ewers: Biographie (1985)
- Johanna und Günter Braun: Biographie (1985)
-
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: Biographie (1985)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Kurt Vonnegut: Biographie (2009)
- Sewer Gansowski: Biographie (1985)
- Eric Koch: Biographie (1985)
- György Botond-Bolics: Biographie (1985)
- Henry Rider Haggard: Biographie (1985)
- Oskar Panizza: Biographie (1985)
- St. Bialkowski: Biographie (1985)
- Curt Siodmak: Biographie (1986)
- Ann Radcliffe: Biographie (1986)
- Charles Brockden Brown: Biographie (1986)
- David Lindsay: Biographie (1986)
- Edward Georges de Capoulet-Junac: Biographie (1986)
- Emily Bronte: Biographie (1986)
- Horace Walpole: Biographie (1986)
- Lino Aldani: Biographie (1986)
- Mary Shelley: Biographie (1986)
- William Beckford: Biographie (1986)
- Charles Robert Maturin: Biographie (1986)
- George Orwell: Biographie (1986)
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Biographie (1986)
- M. G. Lewis: Biographie (1986)
- Arthur Machen: Biographie (1986)
- William Hope Hodgson: Biographie (1986)
- Cynthia Asquith: Biographie (1987)
- Franz L. Neher: Biographie (1987)
- Margaret Oliphant: Biographie (1987)
- Oswald Levett: Biographie (1987)
- Ambrose Bierce: Biographie (1987)
- E. F. Benson: Biographie (1987)
- M. R. James: Biographie (1987)
- Peter Marginter: Biographie (1987)
- Roald Dahl: Biographie (1987)
- Robert W. Chambers: Biographie (1987)
- Leo Szilard: Biographie (1987)
- Rudolf Heinrich Daumann: Biographie (1987)
- Franz Spunda: Biographie (1987)
- Hans Dominik: Biographie (1987)
- Walter de la Mare: Biographie (1988)
- Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando: Biographie (1988)
- Gustav Meyrink: Biographie (1988)
- Henry S. Whitehead: Biographie (1988)
- Jean Ray: Biographie (1988)
- Thomas Owen: Biographie (1988)
- Claude Seignolle: Biographie (1989)
- Hermann Harry Schmitz: Biographie (1989)
- Maurice Renard: Biographie (1989)
- Carl Grunert: Biographie (1989)
- Sergej Snegow: Biographie (1989)
- H. G. Wells: Biographie (1989)
- Herbert Rosendorfer: Biographie (1990)
- Bernard Wolfe: Biographie (1990)
- Saki: Biographie (1990)
- Fitz-James O'Brien: Biographie (1991)
- Gustav Renker: Biographie (1991)
- Jan Potocki: Biographie (1992)
- Robert Paltock: Biographie (1992)
- Sir Thomas Malory: Biographie (1992)
- Rudyard Kipling: Biographie (1992)
- Charles Howard Hinton: Biographie (1993)
- Étienne Cabet: Biographie (1993)
- Frederick Rolfe (Baron Corvo): Biographie (1993)
- William Golding: Biographie (1993)
- E. H. Visiak: Biographie (1993)
- Oliver Onions: Biographie (1993)
- Julian Hawthorne: Biographie (1994)
- Louis Couperus: Biographie (1994)
- Maurice Dekobra: Biographie (1994)
- Willy Seidel: Biographie (1994)
- Robert Hugh Benson: Biographie (1994)
- F. Anstey: Biographie (2000)
- Frank R. Stockton: Biographie (2000)
- Stanislaus Bialkowski: Biographie (2008)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet: Biographie (2009)
- Julien Gracq: Biographie (2010)
- Editor surveys for favourite titles
- Umfrage: Suhrkamp (Science Fiction Jahrbuch 1983) (1982)
- Umfrage: Suhrkamp (Science Fiction Jahrbuch 1984) (1983)
- Umfrage: Suhrkamp (Science Fiction Jahrbuch 1985) (1984)
- Locus Obituary
- Johanna and Gunter Braun [English] (2009)
- Kalju Kirde [English] (2009)
- Hans Joachim Alpers [English] (2011)
- Viktor Farkas [English] (2011)
- Boris Strugatsky: 1933-2012 [English] (2013)
- Obituaries for Nova magazine
- William Tenn (1920-2010) (2011)
- Viktor Farkas (1945-2011) (2012)
- Frederik Pohl (2014)
- Wolfgang Jeschke zum Gedenken (Remembering Wolfgang Jeschke)
- Letter (Riverside Quarterly, June 1966) [English] (1966)
- Letter (Riverside Quarterly, November 1966) [English] (1966)
- Letter (Riverside Quarterly, August 1967) [English] (1967)
- Letter (Riverside Quarterly, March 1968) [English] (1968)
- Letter (Exploding Madonna 3) [English] (1968)
- Opinion 17: Crown for Ridiculousness [English] (1969)
- Strange Ways of Evolution [English] (1969)
- Letter (Exploding Madonna 6) [English] (1969)
- Mr Budrys and the Active Life [English] (1969)
- Chewing Gum for the Vulgar [English] (1969)
- Letter (SF Commentary 4) [English] (1969)
- Kurd Lasswitz: A German Pioneer of Science Fiction [English] (1969)
- Letter (SF Commentary 5) [English] (1969)
- Letter (SF Commentary 6) [English] (1969)
- Letter (SF Commentary 7) [English] (1969)
- Letter [2] (SF Commentary 7) [English] (1969)
- Science Fiction in Germany [English] (1969)
- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz [English] (1970)
- Letter (Speculation 26) [English] (1970)
- Letter (SF Commentary 13) [English] (1970)
- Letter (SF Commentary 17) [English] (1970)
- Letter (The WSFA Journal #76, April-May 1971) [English] (1971)
- Letter (SF Commentary 24) [English] (1971)
- An Introduction to Stanislaw Lem [English] (1972)
- Letter (SF Commentary 26) [English] (1972)
- Letter (SF Commentary 29) [English] (1972)
- Letter (Vector 61) [English] (1972)
- The International Scene: East Germany (Luna Monthly, #40) [English] (1972)
- The International Scene: Poland (Luna Monthly, #40) [English] (1972)
- The International Scene: West Germany (Luna Monthly, #40) [English] (1972) with Tellus
-
Introduction (View from Another Shore) [English] (1973)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Inleiding (Andere Werelden, Andere Kusten) [Dutch] (1976)
- Translation: Introduzione (Buonanotte Sofia) [Italian] (1997)
- Letter (Riverside Quarterly, April 1973) [English] (1973)
- Letter (Vector 65) [English] (1973)
- Science Fiction in USA (Science Fiction Times, #132 August 1973) (1973)
- Letter (Algol 21, November 1973) [English] (1973)
- Das Abenteuer des forschenden Geistes (1974)
- ... and Golems [English] (1975)
- ... and Still More Robots [English] (1975)
- ... and Two Hungarians [English] (1975)
- 2001 — A Space Odyssey [English] (1975)
- A Joyfully Mad Cosmos: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr [English] (1975)
- A Pole on the Moon [English] (1975)
- A World in the Moon: Precursors of SF [English] (1975)
- And Germany [English] (1975)
- Big Brother Is Watching You: Anti-Utopia [English] (1975)
- Buck Rogers, Superman, et al. [English] (1975)
- Chronology of Science Fiction [English] (1975)
- Cosmic Forces and Messages of Salvation [English] (1975)
- Cyrano de Bergerac: Journeys to the Moon [English] (1975)
- Dime Novels and Pulp Heroes [English] (1975)
- Elder Gods and Eldritch Horror: H. P. Lovecraft [English] (1975)
- Fantasies of Flight [English] (1975)
- First Contact: Forms of Life in Outer Space [English] (1975)
- Hard SF [English] (1975)
- Into the Hollow Earth [English] (1975)
- Introduction (The Science Fiction Book) [English] (1975)
- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics [English] (1975)
- Italy, Spain, Rumania ... [English] (1975)
- Japan ... [English] (1975)
- Living Suns and Sentient Planets: Stapledon and Lewis [English] (1975)
- Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle [English] (1975)
- Ray Bradbury and the Lost Voice of Childhood [English] (1975)
- Robots ... [English] (1975)
- Science Fiction in the Soviet Union [English] (1975)
- Secondary Universes and Magic Lands [English] (1975)
- Setting the Patterns: H. G. Wells [English] (1975)
- SF Achievements in ... France ... [English] (1975)
- SF Fandom [English] (1975)
- SF on TV [English] (1975)
- Some Other SF Authors [English] (1975)
- Space-Time Jugglers: E. E. Smith and Others [English] (1975)
- Stanislaw Lem, the Greatest Contemporary SF Writer [English] (1975)
- The 'New Wave' [English] (1975)
- The Fabulous Art of Hannes Bok [English] (1975)
- The Father of Science Fiction: Hugo Gernsback [English] (1975)
- The French Father of Science Fiction: Jules Verne [English] (1975)
- The Golden Age of SF [English] (1975)
- The Guru of the Engineering Mind: John W. Campbell, Jr [English] (1975)
- The Illustrator of Worlds: Albert Robida [English] (1975)
- The Invasion from Mars [English] (1975)
- The Literature of Cataclysm [English] (1975)
- The Modern Prometheus: Frankenstein, Mr Hyde, Dr Moreau [English] (1975)
- The Mysterious Captain Nemo [English] (1975)
- The Tales of A. Merritt [English] (1975)
- The Work of Robert A. Heinlein [English] (1975)
- To Barsoom!: The SF Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs [English] (1975)
- Tsiolkovsky, the Russian Father of Rocketry [English] (1975)
- Two Moon Journeys: Verne and Wells [English] (1975)
- Verisimilitude in Science Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe [English] (1975)
- Why There Is No Sex in Science Fiction [English] (1975)
- A Response to Damon Knight [English] (1976)
- In Rebuttal [English] (1976)
- Nachwort (Rakkóx, der Billionär, ein Protzenroman, und "Die wilde Jagd", ein Entwicklungsroman in acht anderen Geschichten) (1976)
- Nachwort (Ypsilon minus) (1976)
- On an Essay by James Blish [English] (1976)
- Playing Around with Creation: Philip Jose Farmer [English] (1976)
- Anmerkungen zu den Autoren (Blick vom anderen Ufer) (1977) [only as by uncredited]
- Blick vom anderen Ufer (1977)
- Letter: On 'The Science Fiction Book' [English] (1977)
- SF Autoren-Lexikon: James Blish / Ray Bradbury (1977) [only as by Rottensteiner]
- Introduction (The Fantasy Book: The Ghostly, the Gothic, the Magical, the Unreal) [English] (1978)
- Nachwort (Allan Quatermain) (1979)
- Einsteins Theorien in der Literatur (1980)
- Letter (SF Commentary 60/61) [English] (1980)
- German SF [English] (1981)
- Nachwort: H. G. Wells zwischen Journalismus und Literatur (1981)
- Dialektyk z Krakowa [Polish] (1982)
- Some Recent Writings on SF and Fantasy in Germany [English] (1982)
- Vorwort (Die andere Zukunft) (1982)
- Science Fiction in Osteuropa (1982)
- 1984 und die Science-fiction (1983)
- Nachwort (Phantastische Träume) (1983)
- Zur Phantastischen Bibliothek (1983) [only as by uncredited]
- Letter: Arbeitsuniversum (1984)
- Stars of Albion? [English] (1984)
- Vorwort (Über H. P. Lovecraft) (1984)
- Biographical Notes on the Authors (The Slaying of the Dragon) [English] (1984) [only as by uncredited]
- Introduction: Farewell to Dragons: A Literature of Doubt [English] (1984)
- Henry Rider Haggard, ein Autor phantastischer Abenteuerromane (1984)
- Vorwort (Phantastische Welten) (1984)
- Die Einheit der Welt: Zu einigen Romanen von J. G. Ballard (1985)
- Introduction (Microworlds) [English] (1985)
- Vorwort (Die Ermordung des Drachen) (1985)
- Weltraumstationen, verrückte Wissenschaftler und dämonische Gehirne: die SF Curt Siodmaks (1986)
- Nachwort (Der Gewissensfall) (1986)
- Nachwort (Die Verwandlung) (1986)
- Nachwort (Der lange Nachmittag der Erde) (1986)
- Vorbemerkung (Phantastische Zeiten) (1986)
- Letter (Science Fiction Studies, March 1988): Who Was Really Moxon's Master? [English] (1988)
- Kunde von Nirgendwo: Die wunderbare Welt des SF-Pachtwesens (1991)
- Die Wiederkehr der Space Opera (1992)
- Afterword (The Green Face) [English] (1992)
- Anmerkung des Herausgebers (Phantastisches aus Österreich) (1995)
- Zu Michael Siefener (1997)
- Schreiben, schreiben, schreiben ... (1997)
- Introduction (View from Another Shore, 2nd edition) [English] (1999)
- German Science Fiction for Young Adults [English] (1999)
- Letter (Locus #462) [English] (1999)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 91/92) (2000) with various
- A Short History of Austrian Science Fiction [English] (2001)
- Notes on the Authors (The Best of Austrian Science Fiction) [English] (2001)
- Letter (SF Commentary 77) [English] (2001)
- Deutschsprachige Science-Fiction-Magazine: Ein nostalgischer Rückblick (2003)
- Letter (SF Commentary 78) [English] (2003)
- Presentación (Ciudad maldita) [Spanish] (2004)
- SF in Germany (Locus #532) [English] (2005)
- Stanislaus Bialkowski — ein deutscher Space-Opera-Autor (2005)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 103/104) (2006) with various
- Vorwort (Der dünne Mann und andere düstere Novellen) (2006)
- Vorwort (Plasmasymphonie und andere Visionen 3) (2006)
- Zum Geleit (Quarber Merkur, 103/104) (2006)
- Stanislaw Lem [English] (2006)
- Eine typische Wiener Raunzerei (2006)
- Gasteditorial: Zum Geburtstag von Nova (2006)
- SF in Germany (Locus #566) [English] (2008)
- Einleitung: Die dunklen Seiten der Zukunft (2008)
- Arthur C. Clarke (16. Dezember 1917 - 19. März 2008) (2008)
- Auf nach Belgisch-Kongo! Über die deutschen Anfänge des Science Fiction-Fandoms (2008)
- Vorwort (Partner fürs Leben) (2008)
- Editor's Notes (The Black Mirror) [English] (2008)
- Introduction: A Short History of Science Fiction in German [English] (2008)
- Selected Bibliography (The Black Mirror) [English] (2008)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 109/110) (2009) with various
- Laßwitz wiedergelesen (2009)
- Zum Geleit (Quarber Merkur, 109/110) (2009)
- SF in Germany (Locus #588) [English] (2010)
- Letter (SF Commentary 80) [English] (2010)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 111) (2010) with various
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 112) (2011) with Jacek Rzeszotnik and Christian Hoffmann and Ulrich Spiegel and Andreas Heyer
- Vorwort (Die letzten Tage der Ewigkeit) (2012)
- Ronald M. Hahn - eine sehr persönliche Einschätzung (2012)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 113) (2012) with Christian Hoffmann and Michael Koseler and Malte S. Sembten and Simon Spiegel and Holger Wacker
- Letter (SF Commentary 83) [English] (2012)
- Letter (SF Commentary 85) [English] (2013)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 114) (2013) with Christian Hoffmann and Erik Simon and Holger Wacker
- Science Fiction: Zukunftsliteratur? Pure Nostalgie! (2014)
- Nachwort (Metropolis) (2014)
- Der Seziertisch (Quarber Merkur, 115) (2014) with Torsten Ehlers and Christian Hoffmann and Jacek Rzeszotnik and Erik Simon and Stefan Tuczek and Holger Wacker
- Einleitung (Quarber Merkur, 115) (2014)
- Letter (SF Commentary 88) [English] (2015)
- Nachwort (Science Fiction als neue Metaphysik?) (2015)
- Musik und Science Fiction (2015)
- Letter (SF Commentary 90) [English] (2015)
- "Phantastische Bibliothek Wetzlar" — ein Phänomen (2017)
- Garbage World [English] (1969) by Charles Platt
- A Rose for Ecclesiastes [English] (1970) by Roger Zelazny
- The Isle of the Dead [English] (1970) by Roger Zelazny
- Dune Messiah [English] (1970) by Frank Herbert
- The Disappearing Future: A Symposium of Speculation [English] (1971) by George Hay
- The Day Before Tomorrow (1973) by Gérard Klein
- The Return of the Time Machine (1973) by Egon Friedell
- We Can Build You (1973) by Philip K. Dick
- Yours, Isaac Asimov (1997) by Isaac Asimov
- H. P. Lovecraft: Von Monstren und Mythen (1998) by Andreas Kasprzak
- Das Cusanus-Spiel (2006) by Wolfgang Jeschke
- Jonathan Carroll: The Wonder and the Threat of Existence [English] (1986) with Jonathan Carroll
- Franz Rottensteiner im Gespräch (1983) by Günter Zettl