- 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), original anthology (2), Stanislaw Lem (1), Herbert W. Franke (1), H. G. Wells (1), Ronald M. Hahn (1), H. P. Lovecraft (1), music (1), Curt Siodmak (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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