Club seal of the Science Fiction Club Germany
The Club Siegel was a late 1950s by the Science Fiction Club Germany (SFCD) lent quality that sufficient claims of SFCD and when reading for the SFCD members and the German SF fans generally recommended science fiction should be marked.
Award
On the one hand, individual volumes of the SF novel series Utopia- Großband and Utopia-Krimi were awarded - which were included in the contribution for SFCD members of contribution groups A and B and were sent - and on the other hand works from the program of the SF at that time -Library book publishers . The latter were largely divided into three categories, according to the announcement in the club magazine Andromeda :
- SF: novels, the content of which goes beyond the comprehension of the present generation and describes the things and actions that may occur later, but which are considered impossible according to the state of today's science.
- SPACE OPERA: Novels that use a well-known topic without claiming scientific accuracy (but if possible!) To describe space wars, interplanetary differences and other adventures in the context of a more or less exciting plot.
- FUTURE ROMANIES: Novels that expand on a scientific topic known today and try to find out where this current science can lead to ...
The award of the seal was carried out by the literary department of the SFCD, headed by Ernst H. Richter at the time, who himself is represented several times as an author of the award-winning books under the pseudonyms William Brown and Ernest Terridge. The same applies to the then 1st chairman and managing director of the SFCD Walter Ernsting (aka Clark Darlton), the 2nd chairman Heinz Bingenheimer (aka Henry Bings) and the authors who are close to the SFCD WD Rohr and KH Scheer .
The winning works were discussed in the club news and recognized accordingly. An award at the request of a publisher seems to have been possible or at least originally intended:
“Publishers who want the novels they publish to be labeled with our club seal have the opportunity to contact us and submit the manuscripts for review. The examination is free of charge, only if the novel is suitable for bearing our seal, a small recognition fee is charged, which is disproportionate to the benefit that the publisher has by using the seal, as has been proven ... "
The following two sections contain the lists of loan books and utopia booklets that have been awarded the SFCD club seal by Wolfgang Thadewald .
Lending book publishers
| author | title | publishing company | category | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Berry | Lost in Eternity ( The Venom Seekers ) | Hönne publishing house | Space Opera | 1957/58 |
| Henry Bings | Alluring Future (anthology) | Bewin publishing house | without rating | 1957 |
| Henry Bings | Worlds on fire | Hönne publishing house | Science fiction | 1957 |
| Kurt Brand | The impossible universe | Steinebach publishing house | Space Opera | 1958 |
| Kurt Brand | The time spiral | Steinebach publishing house | Space Opera | 1958 |
| Kurt Brand | Black sun space | Steinebach publishing house | Space Opera | 1957/58 |
| Kurt Brand | Space Two Five | Steinebach publishing house | Space Opera | 1957/58 |
| William Brown | Eropall, a new planet | Bewin publishing house | without rating | 1956 |
| William Brown | Herculids over the earth | Bewin publishing house | Science fiction | 1957 |
| William Brown | Call from space | Bewin publishing house | without rating | 1956 |
| William Brown | Fall of the Galaxy | Bewin publishing house | Space Opera | 1958 |
| William Brown | End of the world | Bewin publishing house | without rating | 1956 |
| H. Kenneth Bulmer | World of Terror ( Empire of Chaos ) | Bewin publishing house | Science fiction | 1957 |
| Wayne Coover | The secret of the black sunspots | Dörner | Science fiction | 1955 |
| Wayne Coover | In the mist of the Andromeda | Dörner | Science fiction | 1957 |
| Wayne Coover | Invasion from space | Dörner | without rating | 1956 |
| Wayne Coover | Mutiny in the space ship | Dörner | Science fiction | 1957 |
| Wayne Coover | Planet in Alpha Centauri | Dörner | Science fiction | 1956 |
| Clark Darlton | Assault out of nowhere | Two swallows | Space Opera | 1956 |
| Roger Dee | The Secret of the Dice ( An Earth Gone Mad ) | Hönne publishing house | Science fiction | 1957 |
| Jay Grams | And the stars faded | Wiesemann publishing house | Space Opera | 1958 |
| L. Ron Hubbard | Caught in space and time ( Return to Tomorrow ) | Hönne publishing house | Space Opera | 1957 |
| AJ Merak | Secret Mission Andromeda ( Dark Andromeda ) | Bewin publishing house | Space Opera | 1957 |
| CR Munro | He took the earth with him | Steinebach publishing house | Space Opera | 1957 |
| CR Munro | Shackled planets | Steinebach publishing house | Space Opera | 1957/58 |
| Andrew North | The Spaceship Trap ( Sargossa of Space ) | Hönne publishing house | Space Opera | 1956 |
| Jesco from Puttkamer | The uncanny from another planet | Dörner | Science fiction | 1957 |
| WD pipe | Planet of calamity | Dörner | Science fiction | 1957 |
| KH Scheer | The infinite space | Balowa Publishing House | Science fiction | 1957 |
| KH Scheer | The strangers | Balowa Publishing House | Science fiction | 1957 |
| KH Scheer | The long journey | Balowa Publishing House | Space Opera | 1957 |
| KH Scheer | Limits of power | Balowa Publishing House | Science fiction | 1956 |
| KH Scheer | Star of violence | Balowa Publishing House | without rating | 1956 |
| KH Scheer | Gone in space | Balowa Publishing House | Space Opera | 1956 |
| Jürgen vom Scheidt | Men against space and time | Wiesemann publishing house | Space Opera | 1958 |
| Ernest Terridge | The conquest of the earth | Hönne publishing house | Space Opera | 1957 |
| Ernest Terridge | Deadly black clouds | Hönne publishing house | Science fiction | 1957 |
| EC Tubb | Hell in Twilight ( Hell Planet ) | Hönne publishing house | Space Opera | 1957 |
Utopia science fiction
| author | title | Row band | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leigh Brackett | The Legacy of the Martian Gods ( The Sword of Rhiannon ) | Utopia large volume 46 | 1957 |
| Clark Darlton | Time is against us | Utopia large volume 36 | 1956 |
| Walter Ernsting | And Satan will come | Utopia large volume 44 | 1956 |
| Walter Ernsting | The Eternal Law | Utopia large volume 47 | 1957 |
| Walter Ernsting | Space without time | Utopia large volume 51 | 1957 |
| Walter Ernsting | The threshold to eternity | Utopia large volume 54 | 1957 |
| Volkhard S. Ch. Erl [= Volkhard August Scherl] | Fora I | Utopia large volume 55 | 1957 |
| Hugo Gernsback | Ralph 123 C 41 plus ( Ralph 124 C 41 + ) | Utopia large volume 52 | 1957 |
| E (dna) Mayne Hull | Stars of Power ( Planets for Sale ) | Utopia large volume 42 | 1956 |
| Raymond F. Jones | Island between the stars ( The Island Earth ) | Utopia large volume 37 | 1956 |
| John D (ann) MacDonald | Planet der Däumer ( Wine of The Dreamers ) | Utopia large volume 39 | 1956 |
| Abraham Merritt | Madame Mandilip's dolls ( Burn Witch, Burn! ) | Utopia Criminal 12 | 1956 |
| Andre Norton | Terra ( The Stars are ours (Part I: Terra) ) | Utopia large volume 31 | 1956 |
| Andre Norton | Ad Astra ( The Stars are ours (Part II: Ad Astra) ) | Utopia large volume 33 | 1956 |
| Andre Norton | Space rangers intervene ( Star Rangers ) | Utopia large volume 41 | 1956 |
| Eric Frank Russell | As good as dead ( Call Him Dead ) | Utopia Criminal 13 | 1957 |
| Eric Frank Russell | Agents of Venus ( Sentinels of Space ) | Utopia Criminal 22 | 1957 |
| A (lfred) E (lton) van Vogt | The Shadows ( Universe Maker ) | Utopia large volume 48 | 1957 |
| A (lfred) E (lton) van Vogt | Enterprise Milky Way ( The Voyage of the Space Beagle ) | Utopia large volume 50 | 1957 |
| Jack Williamson | Twice the world ended ( Dome around America ) | Utopia large volume 43 | 1956 |
| Jack Williamson | Guardians of Space ( The Legion of Space ) | Utopia large volume 53 | 1957 |
| Donald A. Wollheim | The mystery of Saturn's rings ( Secret of Saturn's ring ) | Utopia large volume 45 | 1956 |
| Donald A. Wollheim | The Mars Mystery ( Secret of the Martian Moons ) | Utopia Criminal 21 | 1957 |
literature
- Wolfgang Thadewald , Horst Schwagenscheidt: Books that bear our seal: A processing of knowledge that was long believed to be forgotten. Part 1 in Fandom Observer 189 (March 2005), pp. 8-15, PDF . Part 2 in: Fandom Observer 194 (August 2005), pp. 16-21, PDF .