Fischer Orbit
Fischer Orbit was in Fischer paperback publishing house published science fiction - book series . From 1972 onwards, two volumes were published per month, later only one. Were integral part of the series of translations of Damon Knights Orbit - anthologies , of which 10 under the title Damon Knight's Collection appeared. The anthology Science Fiction from Germany, edited by Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn , deserves special mention (Vol. 43, 1974), which is one of the first attempts to give an independent, modern German science fiction platform and face. Otherwise, apart from one novel by Rainer Erler , only Anglo-Saxon SFs appeared in translation. In contrast to other series, for example by Heyne and Goldmann , the original texts were not abbreviated. Also noteworthy was the anthropology Anthropofiction (Vol. 21, 1974) edited by the anthropologists Leon E. Stover and Harry Harrison , in which an attempt was made to juxtapose SF stories related to anthropology and scientific articles on anthropology.
New editions of Utopias by Edward Bellamy ( A review from 2000 , published in 1888, in a translation by Clara Zetkin ) and by Werner Illing ( Utopolis , published in 1930, with an afterword by Karl Riha ) were also commendable .
The series was started at the time of the SF boom in the early 1970s, when a number of other publishers started SF series, the booklet was slowly being replaced by the paperback and the impression arose that a high-quality series was successful in German-speaking countries could. In 1974, after three years, the series was discontinued. The reasons given are the internal restructuring of the publishing house, the "somewhat overwhelmed readers' taste [and] the somewhat monotonous cover design by the Englishman Eddie Jones ". Numbers 24, 35, 42 and 45 never appeared. The following were planned:
- Walter Zanner: Rich harvest.
- Brian W. Aldiss : Cryptozoic
- Brian W. Aldiss: Report on Probability A
- Michael Moorcock (Ed.): The Lords of Time (anthology)
List of titles in the series:
| No. | Author (s) | German title | year | Original title | year | translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 1 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 1 | 1966 | Katja Behrens |
| 2 | Frederik Pohl | Death to immortals | 1972 | Drunkard's Walk | 1960 | Johannes Piron |
| 3 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 2 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 1, 2 | 1966, 1967 | Katja Behrens, J. Piron |
| 4th | Keith Laumer | Time maze | 1972 | Time trap | 1970 | Birgit Reß-Bohusch |
| 5 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 3 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 2 | 1967 | Johannes Piron |
| 6th | Brian Neville Ball | blockade | 1972 | Sundog | 1969 | Edith Kaiser |
| 7th | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 4 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 2, 3, 4 | 1967, 1968, 1969 | Johannes Piron, Gudrun Ecker, M. Peschel, Wolf-Dieter Heller |
| 8th | Fritz Leiber | The programmed muses | 1972 | The Silver Eggheads | 1959, 1961 | Thomas Schlück |
| 9 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 5 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 3, 4 | 1968, 1969 | Gudrun Ecker, Marianne Peschel, Wolf-Dieter Heller |
| 10 | Philip K. Dick | Joe from the Milky Way | 1974 | Galactic Pot-Healer | 1969 | Joachim Pente |
| 11 | Michael Moorcock | The black corridor | 1972 | The Black Corridor | 1969 | Lionel von dem Knesebeck |
| 12 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 6 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 4, 5 | 1969 | W.-D. Heller, U. Steinbicker |
| 13 | Frederik Pohl | The time of the cat's paws | 1972 | The Age of the Pussyfoot | 1969 | Hans Günter Kreidl |
| 14th | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 7 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 6 | 1970 | Jo Klein |
| 15th | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 8 (anthology) | 1972 | Orbit 4, 5, 6 | 1969, 1969, 1970 | Marianne Peschel, Ute Steinbicker, Jo Klein |
| 16 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 9 (anthology) | 1973 | Orbit 5, 6 | 1969, 1970 | Ute Steinbicker, Jo Klein |
| 17th | Suzette Haden Elgin | The Q factor | 1972 | The Communipaths | 1970 | Jo Klein |
| 18th | Erich Kosch | ice | 1973 | Sneg I Led | 1961 | Johannes Weidenheim |
| 19th | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 10 (anthology) | 1973 | Orbit 7 | 1970 | Birgit Reß-Bohusch |
| 20th | Damon Knight | Bipeds look at you | 1973 | Mind switch | 1965 | Ronald M. Hahn , Werner Fuchs |
| 21st | Leon E. Stover , Harry Harrison (Eds.) | Antropofiction (anthology) | 1974 | Apeman, spaceman | 1968 | Hannelore Buschmann, Werner Fuchs, Horst Adam, Ronald M. Hahn, Angelika Kiesow, Ulrich Kiesow , Horst Pukallus , Rainer Schmidt |
| 22nd | Thomas Landfinder (Ed.) | Love 2002 (anthology) | 1973 | Gisela Stege, Dagmar TürckWagner, Elke Kamper, Dr. Robert Bergmann | ||
| 23 | Robert E. Magroff, Piers Anthony | The ring | 1973 | The Ring | 1968 | Fritz Steinberg |
| 24 | (did not show up) | |||||
| 25th | Robin Sanborn | The big bull | 1973 | The Book of Taurus | 1971 | Regine König |
| 26th | Frederik Pohl | Signals (narratives) | 1975 | Digits & Dastards | 1966 | Horst Pukallus |
| 27 | Curt Siodmak | The third ear | 1973 | The third ear | 1971 | Johannes Piron |
| 28 | Richard Wilson | The ladies from planet 5 | 1973 | The Girls from Planet 5 | 1955 | Lionel von dem Knesebeck |
| 29 | Damon Knight (Ed.) | Damon Knight's Collection 11 (anthology) | 1973 | Orbit 5, 7 | 1969, 1970 | Ute Steinbicker, Birgit Reß-Bohusch |
| 30th | Edward Bellamy | A look back from 2000 | 1973 | Looking Backward 2000-1887 | 1888 | Clara Zetkin |
| 31 | Langdon Jones (Ed.) | New SF, Volume 1 (anthology) | 1973 | The New SF (I) | 1969 | Thomas Schlück |
| 32 | Langdon Jones (Ed.) | New SF, Volume 2 (anthology) | 1973 | The New SF (II) | 1969 | Thomas Schlück |
| 33 | Peter Tate | The planned paradise | 1973 | The Thinking Seat | 1969 | Lutz Wolff |
| 34 | James Sallis (Ed.) | The war book (anthology) | 1974 | The War Book | 1969 | Thomas Schlück |
| 35 | (did not show up) | |||||
| 36 | KM O'Donnell | Hunt into the void | 1974 | The Empty People | 1969 | Werner Fuchs / Ronald M. Hahn |
| 37 | Werner Illing | Utopolis | 1974 | |||
| 38 | RA Lafferty | 900 grandmothers volume 1 (short stories) | 1974 | Nine Hundred Grandmothers (I) | 1970 | Karl H. Kosmehl |
| 39 | RA Lafferty | 900 grandmothers volume 2 (short stories) | 1974 | Nine Hundred Grandmothers (II) | 1970 | Karl H. Kosmehl |
| 40 | David R. Bunch | Fortress 10 (short stories) | 1974 | Moderate | 1971 | Gerd Hallenberger |
| 41 | Fritz Leiber | A great time | 1974 | The big time | 1958, 1961 | Thomas Schlück |
| 42 | (did not show up) | |||||
| 43 | Hans Joachim Alpers , Ronald M. Hahn (Eds.) | Science Fiction from Germany (anthology) | 1974 | |||
| 44 | Rainer Erler | The delegation | 1974 | |||
| 45 | (did not show up) | |||||
See also
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature 2. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01064-7 , pp. 758-761.