Carmen Capiti

Carmen Capiti (actually Nina C. Egli; born 1988 in Schattdorf , Canton Uri ) is a Swiss writer. She is known as a writer of fantasy , science fiction and cyberpunk .

Life

Carmen Capiti studied computer science after graduating from high school in Latin . She has been working in IT security since 2012 . She started writing at an early age. In 2015 her first novel The Last Artifact was released , a fantasy novel about the master villain Arala, who goes in search of the eponymous artefact that is supposed to help her in the fight against her adversary Zepharis. The novel was nominated for the Seraph Fantastic Literature Prize for Best Debut in 2016 .

In 2016, the first volume of the machine trilogy was published with Maschinenwahn . The content: In Switzerland, with a dystopian future, it is forbidden to replace healthy limbs with prostheses that have become more and more perfect and efficient. This is exactly how the protagonist Samuel earns his money in an illegal doctor's practice in Zurich. Until one day something goes wrong.

The following two volumes also deal with aspects of the consequences of bioengineering , nanotechnology and high-tech prosthetics for people and society. In 2018 she participated with a volume in the shared universe of the space opera series The Ninth Expansion .

In 2015, Capiti founded the Swiss Fantastic Authors Association together with three other authors . She is also a member of the Fantastik authors network .

Awards

• 2016: Nomination for the Fantastik-Literaturpreis Seraph in the category Best Debut

bibliography

Machine trilogy

• 1 machine madness. E-book. books2read, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7337-8573-4 . Print edition: BoD, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-8863-1 .
• 2 machine pain. BoD, Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7460-9813-5 .
• 3 machine death. BoD, Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978-3-7494-0747-7 .

Individual publications

• The final artifact. E-book. Paper decorating publisher, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-944544-95-3 . Print edition: 2018, ISBN 978-3-944544-94-6 .
• The ghosts of Ure. E-book. neopubli, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7418-0382-6 .
• Old acquaintance (Guardian Chronicles 7). Paper decorating publisher, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95962-506-7 .
• D9E - The Logan War 3: Change of Power. Wurdack, Nittendorf 2018, ISBN 978-3-95556-142-0 .

Short story

• Memento. In: Michael Kaufmann, Edy Portmann, Melody Aimée Reymond (eds.): Fiction × Science: The vision of a hopeful future. Pako, 2018, ISBN 978-3-907589-02-1 .

Web links

• Carmen Capiti's website
• Carmen Capiti on the website of the Swiss fantastic authors
• Carmen Capiti on the website of the Fantastik authors network
• Carmen capiti in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Carmen Capiti on LovelyBooks
• Carmen capiti on LibraryThing (English)
• Carmen Capiti on Goodreads.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Das busy in 2063 , article in the Luzerner Zeitung from June 18, 2018, accessed on December 6, 2019.
2. ↑ Nomination SERAPH 2016 - Best Debut , accessed on December 6, 2019.