Dirk van den Boom

Dirk van den Boom at the Book Fair 2008

Dirk Andreas van den Boom (* 24. December 1966 in Fuerstenau ) is a German political scientist , science fiction - writer and translator . Since 1996 he has been publishing specialist books in the field of political science, primarily on the subject of development policy . Dirk van den Boom's science fiction used to appear mostly in series such as Ren Dhark or the SF series Rescue Cruiser Ikarus , which he initiated in 2000 , but since 2007 also in the form of independent novels. Tentakelschatten (2007) was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize in 2008. The first part of his series entitled The Worlds of Skiir , Prinzipat , was awarded the German Science Fiction Prize in 2017 .

Life

Dirk van den Boom was born on December 24, 1966 in Fürstenau and grew up in Wilhelmshaven . From 1988 to 1995 he studied political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he did his doctorate. Since 1998 he has held various teaching positions at the University of Münster and the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken , and since 2012 he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Münster as well as an expert and trainer in the field of development aid. Dirk van den Boom has been self-employed since 2005. He is married and lives in Saarbrücken with his wife and two children.

Works

Political science

• Civil War in Liberia . Chronology - protagonists - forecast . Lit Verlag, Hamburg and Münster 1993. ISBN 3-89473-623-2
• Paul Kevenhörster, Dirk van den Boom (Ed.): Africa: Stagnation or New Beginning ?: Studies on Political Change. Lit Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-8258-2666-X .
• Problems of South-South Cooperation. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, 1997, ISBN 3-86064-574-9 .
• Politics on this side of power? Leske + Budrich Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-8100-2510-0 .
• Paul Kevenhörster, Dirk van den Boom: Development Policy. Vs Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15239-4 .

Tentacle cycle

The tentacle cycle describes the first contact of humanity, which has spread across different solar systems, with aliens. These are plant-based creatures ("tentacles"), attack people on their colonies for some inexplicable reason and threaten to destroy the human race.

• Tentacle shadow. Atlantis Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-936742-82-4 .
• Tentacle dream. Atlantis Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-936742-94-7 .
• Tentacle storm. Atlantis Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941258-06-8 .
• Tentacles: The First War. Atlantis Verlag, 2011 (anthology of the first three tentacle novels)
• Tentacle watch. Atlantis Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86402-037-7
• Tentacle blood. Atlantis Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86402-123-7
• Tentacle-rich. Atlantis Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86402-183-1
• Tentacle lord. Atlantis Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86402-238-8
• Tentacle emperor. Atlantis Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86402-438-2
• Tentacle god. Atlantis Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86402-543-3

Imperial warriors

First series

A light cruiser of the Bremen-class device in 1914 by a mysterious fog in the history of the Roman Empire in the year 378 n. Chr. The crew decides to emperor Gratian to help in the defense of the empire and to correct some errors of history .

• Imperial Warriors: The Arrival. Atlantis Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941258-28-0 .
• Imperial Warriors: Treason. Atlantis Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941258-29-7 .
• Imperial Warriors: The Departure. Atlantis Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941258-59-4 .
• Imperial warriors: The uprising. Atlantis Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941258-60-0 .
• Imperial Warriors: The Escape. Atlantis Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86402-039-1 .
• Imperial warrior: the emperor. Atlantis Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86402-040-7 .

Second series

• Imperial warriors: Rising sun. Atlantis Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86402-109-1 .
• Imperial Warriors: Stormy Skies. Atlantis Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86402-110-7 .
• Imperial Warriors: Heavy tides. Atlantis Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86402-239-5 .
• Imperial warriors: Burning temples. Atlantis Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86402-287-6 .
• Imperial Warrior: Bloody Moon. Atlantis Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86402-351-4 .
• Imperial warriors: dying gods. Atlantis Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86402-539-6 .

Imperial warrior vigiles

A thriller spin-off for the Imperial Warrior cycle.

• Imperial Warrior Vigiles: Death in the Senate. Atlantis Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86402-242-5 .
• Imperial Warrior Vigiles: Easy Girls. Atlantis Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86402-402-3 .
• Imperial Warrior Vigiles: Vacation on Capri. Atlantis Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86402-541-9 .

Daxxel cycle

• Eobal. Atlantis Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941258-58-7 .
• Habitat C. Atlantis Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86402-163-3 .
• Meran. Atlantis Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86402-290-6 .

The ninth expansion

Dirk van den Boom is one of the inventors and co-authors of the shared universe series The Ninth Expansion , which will be published by Wurdack Verlag from October 2013 .

• D9E 01: A journey of old heroes. Wurdack Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95556-010-2 .
• D9E 05: A life for Leeluu. Wurdack Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95556-014-0 .
• D9E 09: The sensational Gonwik. Wurdack Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95556-018-8 .
• D9E 13: 1713. Wurdack Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95556-122-2 .
• D9E 15: The Spingledeck Gambit. Wurdack Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95556-124-6 .
• D9E 20: Death of an Agent , Wurdack Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95556-129-1 .

Tulivar

• A lord to Tulivar. Atlantis Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86402-058-2 .
• A prince to Tulivar. Atlantis Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86402-236-4 .
• A god to Tulivar. Atlantis Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86402-615-7 .

The worlds of the Skiir

• Principate. Cross Cult, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86425-867-1 .
• Protectorate. Cross Cult, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86425-871-8 .
• Patronage. Cross Cult, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86425-872-5 .

The journey of the Scythe

• Ascendancy. Cross Cult, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95981-527-7 .
• Variance. Cross Cult, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95981-529-1 .
• Resonance. Cross Cult, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95981-531-4 .

The Cold War

• Canopus , Atlantis, Stolberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86402-561-7 .
• Aume travels , Atlantis, Stolberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86402-646-1 .

The last admiral

• The last Admiral 1: Metropole 7 , Cross Cult Amigo Grafik, Ludwigsburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-95981-388-4

Web links

• Dirk van den Boom in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Dirk van den Boom in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Dirk van den Boom at Open Library
• Phantastik-Couch.de: Dirk van den Boom
• Homepage of the author: https://sfboom.wordpress.com/

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KLP 2008 Best Novel. In: Kurd Laßwitz Prize. Retrieved April 24, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Florian Breitsameter: German Science Fiction Prize 2017: The winners. In: SF-Fan.de. April 23, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Dirk van den Boom's biography. Amazon.de.
4. ^ Curriculum Vitae: Dirk van den Boom. , accessed June 20, 2014
5. ↑ Michael Schmidt: Interview with Dirk van den Boom. on Fantasyguide.de, accessed on August 17, 2010.
6. ↑ Karsten Kruschel : Dirk van den Boom and Niklas Peinecke begin "The Ninth Expansion" . In: Quarber Mercury . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy , vol. 115, pp. 272–277, 2014. ISBN 978-3-934273-94-8