Alexander Huiskes

Alexander Huiskes (* 1968 in Wallau in Hessen ) is a German author of fantasy novels.

Life

After graduating from high school, Alexander Huiskes studied German literature, history and politics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz for teaching at grammar schools. Since 1998 he has been teaching at a private high school in Wiesbaden .

His career as a writer began in 1989 when he was employed and editor of various magazines and publications in the role-playing genre . He worked for ZauberZeit , Spielwelt , Nautilus and Kartefakt, among others . From 1994 he took over the editor-in-chief of the Gildenbrief , a regular magazine for the role-playing game system Midgard . He also wrote several adventures for this first German-language pen & paper game . He also designed and wrote the SF version of Midgard, which is set in Perry Rhodan's universe , and the corresponding background material. He occasionally works as an editor for Bastei and is also responsible as the author of the Drenai encyclopedia , which appeared in David Gemmell's novels . Since volume 2200 (2003) he has also been editing the weekly novels in the Perry Rhodan booklet series.

Works

Alexander Huiskes has published three novels so far. Two of them take place in the fictional world of the Black Eye , the third in the world of Midgard .

• The hand of darkness . Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-17880-7 .
• The secret path . Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-21387-4 .
• The birth of the dark idols . Pegasus, Friedberg 2004, ISBN 3-937826-21-1 .

The following adventures and source books for the Midgard role-playing game system were penned by Alexander Huiskes:

• The bestiary . Pegasus, Friedberg 2003 ISBN 3-930635-59-3 .
• The brother's skin
• White wolf and soul eater . ISBN 3-924714-65-7 .
• What princes want
• The country that shouldn't be
• Nahuatlan source book
• Witch magic & druid power
• Barbarian rage & honor

Two booklet novels for the PERRY RHODAN ACTION series were published in 2009:

• Between 42 Worlds (Volume 33)
• Dawn of the Sun (Volume 36, closing volume)

As part of the PERRY RHODAN-EXTRA series appeared in April 2011:

• Countdown (Volume 12)

Since 2012 he has been writing for the PERRY RHODAN NEO series, a reinterpretation of the Perry Rhodan series, based on exposés by Frank Borsch:

• The World Splitter (Volume 21)
• Belinkhar's Decision (Volume 29)
• Dawn over Gorr (Volume 33)
• The End of the Sleeper (Volume 43)
• Courtesan of the Empire (Volume 54)
• Novaals Mission (Volume 66)
• Callibso's Track (Volume 83)

Web links

• Alexander Huiskes in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Alexander Huiskes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Alexander Huiskes at Open Library
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