Cliff Allister

Cliff Allister (actually Harald Hess ; born June 4, 1957 in Friedrichsdorf ) is a German science fiction author.

Life

After studying to become a teacher, Hess went abroad in 1985 and opened a diving school in Bequia / St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean in 1989 . From 2007 to 2016 he ran a diving school in Dahab , Egypt , which he set up together with his wife Eva. Since October 2017 he has been living as a freelance writer in Tala near Paphos in Cyprus .

Since 2015, Hess has had more than 20 Science under the pseudonym Cliff Allister - which he chose based on the first names of Cliff Allister McLane, the commander of the Orion spaceship from the television series Raumpatrouille , for which, like many others, he was very enthusiastic about as a child Fiction novels published. His works are mostly in several volumes and appear consistently initially as e-books on Amazon Kindle and as self-published print editions and in some cases also as licensed editions by Belle Époque Verlag .

Awards

The novel HELIUM-3: Kampf um die Zukunft , written together with Brandon Q. Morris , was voted the best German-language science fiction novel of the year with the SKOUTZ award in a nationwide readers' vote in 2019.

bibliography

Markan saga

• 1 legacy of the empire. CreateSpace, 2015, ISBN 978-1-5186-6990-3 .
• 2 The rebels of the empire. CreateSpace, 2015, ISBN 978-1-5186-7111-1 .
• 3 Battle for the Empire. CreateSpace, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5303-6138-0 .
• 4 The new empire. CreateSpace, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5333-2806-9 .

Ek'Thal cycle

• 1 The Leviathan. CreateSpace, 2015, ISBN 978-1-5172-1824-9 .
• 2 keepers of time. CreateSpace, 2015, ISBN 978-1-5195-3245-9 .
• The Leviathan - keeper of time: the Ek'Thal cycle. Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-945796-64-1 .

Gregory A. Duncan

• 1 Death Friends: A Gregory A. Duncan Case. Harald Hess, Dahab 2015, ISBN 978-1-51151-535-1 .
• 2 Secession: A Gregory A. Duncan Case. Harald Hess, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5213-7990-5 .

Multiverse cycle

• 1 the recruit. CreateSpace, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5391-1455-0 . New edition: Clash of the Universes: First Cycle. Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-96357-070-4 .
• 2 Triangulum Mission. CreateSpace, 2016, ISBN 978-1-5408-4430-9 . New edition: Clash of the Universes: Second Cycle. Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-071-1 .
• 3 guardians of the universe. CreateSpace, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5427-3166-9 .
• 3.5 The betrayal of God. CreateSpace, 2017, ISBN 978-1-974324-41-5 .
• 3.6 The perfect weapon. CreateSpace, 2017, ISBN 978-1-982067-52-6 .
• 4 The Exodus Sphere. CreateSpace, 2017, ISBN 978-1-981329-04-5 .
• 5 mega-verse. CreateSpace, 2018, ISBN 978-1-986027-18-2 .
• 6 In the vortex of time. CreateSpace, 2018, ISBN 978-1-72151-718-3 .

Mercenary Chronicles

• 1 In the service of the Guard. Harald Hess, 2018, ISBN 978-1-72376-079-2 .
• 2 Planet of the Outlaws. Harald Hess, 2018, ISBN 978-1-79185-932-9 .
• 3 shadows of the past. Harald Hess, 2019, ISBN 978-1-79928-140-5 .
• The Mercenary Chronicles: Complete Edition . Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-072-8 .

The cold suns

• 1 The system. SpaceTime Publishing Ltd., 2019, ISBN 978-1-07-058899-5 . New edition: The system: Die kalten Sonnen 1 . Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-124-4 .
• 2 The gun . SpaceTime Publishing Ltd., 2019, ISBN 978-1-69740-558-3 . New edition: The weapon: The cold suns 2 . Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2020, ISBN 978-3-96357-125-1 .
• 3 The war . SpaceTime Publishing Ltd., 2020, ISBN 979-8-60648-348-8 .

Timehunter

• 1 prisoner of time. SpaceTime Publishing Ltd., 2020, ISBN 979-8-61934-217-8 .
• 2 The Dallas Paradox. SpaceTime Publishing Ltd., 2020, ISBN 979-8-64711-611-6 .

Single novels

• War of the Clans. CreateSpace, 2017, ISBN 978-1-975894-76-4 .
• with Brandon Q. Morris : HELIUM-3: Fight for the Future. 2018, ISBN 978-1-79032-794-2 . New edition: Helium-3: Fight for the future. Belle Époque Verlag, Tübingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-96357-069-8 .

Web links

• Cliff Allister , homepage
• Cliff Allister in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Cliff Allister in the catalog of the German National Library
• Cliff Allister on LovelyBooks
• Cliff Allister on LibraryThing (English)
• Cliff Allister on Goodreads.com (English)
• Cliff Allister on Facebook
• Interview with Cliff Allister

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ALLISTER, Cliff on Transgalaxis.de, accessed on January 31, 2020.
2. ↑ Cliff Allister , author portrait on Qindie.de, accessed on January 30, 2020.
3. ↑ Kay: Skoutz Award 2019 - Here are the winners. In: Skoutz. October 18, 2019, accessed on March 2, 2020 (German).