Gerd Maximovič

Gerd Maximovič (born August 29, 1944 in Langenau , Sudetenland ) is a German science fiction and non -fiction author.

biography

Maximovič grew up in Schwäbisch Gmünd and, after graduating from high school in 1964, began studying economics and social sciences, law, pedagogy, and economic and social history in Saarbrücken . In 1969, after graduating, he worked as a qualified commercial teacher. He retired in 1989 as a teacher in Bremen .

Maximovič's first science fiction stories appeared from the early 1960s, primarily in the German SF fanzines of the time , including ANABIS, Munich Round-Up, PIONEER and the Science Fiction Times. First publications outside the fandom were in 1974, the two stories , the first love and the helping hand in the series Fischer Orbit in by Hans Joachim Alpers and Ronald M. Hahn published anthology Science Fiction from Germany appeared. In 1979, Suhrkamp-Verlag published a selection of his stories, The Exploration of the Omega Planet . In 1984 came Das Spinnenloch , another collection that appeared in the Fantastische Bibliothek series. Further collections and publications in anthologies followed, and some stories were also translated into French and English.

In addition to his science fiction, Maximovič also published some texts on questions of philosophy and esotericism from the end of the 1990s , and in 2013 the autobiography From the Memories of a Teacher .

Works

SF short stories

• A Talent (1962)
• Decision After Midnight (1962)
• Agent Under the Stars (1974, also as Maxim Bremer)
• First Love (1974)
• The helping hand (1974)
• The Planet Raiders (1975)
• The Man, the Metal and the Water (1975)
• The Rift in Time (1976)
• The red crystal planet (1976)
• The Electronic Rebel (1976, with Hans Joachim Alpers, as Thorn Forrester)
• The hunt of the human killer dogs (1976)
• Journey into the Red Fog (1977)
• Fabrizio (1979)
• Playing with Fire (1979)
• Clash (1979)
• The Blue Planet (1979)
• The War Against the Parmanteren (1979)
• The Tattooed Man (1979)
• The Dark Cloud (1979)
• Exploring the Omega Planet (1979)
• The Love of the Computer (1979)
• Frankenstein (1979)
• Omicron (1979)
• Rachel and Georges (1979)
• The Black Ship (1979)
• The Fighting Object (1980)
• Renegade and Queen (1980)
• Unquestionably an Incident (1981)
• The Brooklyn Project (1981)
• The New People (1982)
• The Karem Material (1982)
• Broadnar's Creature (1982)
• The Spider Hole (1982)
• Messages from the Stars (1982)
• The Man in the Room (1982)
• The Colosorum Papers (1983)
• The Black Planet (1983)
• The Realm Above the Stars (1983)
• The Thing That Fell From The Sky (1984)
• The Planet Eden (1984)
• The Crab World (1984)
• Cairos (1984)
• Above the Seven Stars (1984)
• Mirror, Mirror (1999, English)
• The Lux accelerator (1985)
• Expedition into the Past (1986)
• Musk no. 1 (1986)
• Halifax and the Pirates (1987)
• Jack the Ripper (1987)
• The beautiful McCormick (2000)
• The fire chief and Margharita (2014)
• Professor Weinstein's Invention (2014)
• The Stranded Ship (2015)
• Transmission to Syragusa (2016)
• Our Man in the Moon (2016)
• The Woman Who Collected Flies (2002, English)

SF collections and novellas (individual publications)

• Exploring the Omega Planet. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1979. ISBN 3-518-37009-X .
• The Spider Hole and Other Science Fiction Tales. Suhrkamp (Fantastic Library # 133), Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-37535-0 .
• Musk no. 1. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89781-011-5 .
• Alpha station. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89781-026-3 .
• The new people. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89781-050-6 .
• Messages from the stars. Lit-Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89781-062-X .
• The Thing Which Fell From the Heavens. tredition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8495-7915-9 .
• Mirror, mirror. tredition, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8495-8685-0 .
• Cosmic Fire Master: Two Science Fiction Stories. BookRix, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7368-5076-7 (e-book).
• Experiment: Alpha Station. BookRix, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7368-4375-2 (e-book).
• Over the abyss and on and on. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7368-9229-3 (e-book).
• Shadow of life. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7396-1601-8 (e-book).
• Saltpetre worlds. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7368-5075-0 (e-book).
• The hunt of the human killer dogs. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7368-7034-5 (e-book).
• The red crystal palace. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7368-9230-9 (e-book).
• The war against the Parmanteren. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7368-9235-4 (e-book).
• Time travel made easy: an SF story. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-4376-9 (e-book).
• Saturn in the evening light: science fiction stories. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7396-3076-2 (e-book).
• An unsolvable question: SF narratives. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-4338-7 (e-book).
• The helping hand: 2 classic SF stories. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-7030-7 (e-book).
• The fighting object. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-7033-8 (e-book).
• The stranded ship. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-7019-2 (e-book).
• Crux, an Enigmatic Planet: SF Stories. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-4337-0 (e-book).
• Agent under the stars. Edition Bärenklau / BookRix, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7368-6746-8 (e-book).
• The journey through space. Edition Bärenklau, Munich 2016.
• The eye in space. Edition Bärenklau, Munich 2017.
• The zero experiment. Edition Bärenklau, Munich 2017.
• COSMO and Pandora's box. Edition Bärenklau, Munich 2017.
• Ormagdor - You are not dead! Edition Bärenklau, Munich 2018.

Non-fiction

• with Karim Akerma: Philosophical reflections on the extraterrestrial. Cosmophilosophy # 1. Junghans-Verlag, Cuxhaven & Dartford 1996, ISBN 3-926-84862-6 .
• The will in the world or: Schopenhauer and the voodoo cult. Cosmophilosophy # 3. Junghans-Verlag, Cuxhaven & Dartford 1998, ISBN 3-932905-12-1 .
• Literature, magic mirror of philosophy or: the uncanny power of the soul . Cosmophilosophy # 6. Junghans-Verlag, Cuxhaven & Dartford 2002, ISBN 3-932905-49-0 .
• Soul and sickness . ProBusiness-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939430-80-3 .
• The real story: The real backgrounds of world events. Self-published, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-1-53360-729-4 .
• with Shelby Vick: The Greatest Discovery in History of All Mankind. Self-published, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-1-53495-702-2 .
• Scattered remarks 1. Selbstverlag, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-1-5353-7334-0 .

Autobiography

• From the memories of a teacher . ProBusiness-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-403-3 .

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers and Thomas M. Loock: Interview with Gerd Maximovic. In: Reading book of German Science Fiction 1984 , edited by Hans Joachim Alpers and Thomas M. Loock (Edition Futurum Vol. 4), Corian Verlag, Meitingen 1983. ISBN 3-89048-204-X
• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 288.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 710.
• Jörg Martin Munsonius : A conversation with Gerd Maximovic. In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1996 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag , Munich, ISBN 3-453-09445-X , pp. 498-510.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Maximovič in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerd Maximovič in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Gerd Maximovič at Open Library
• Gerd Maximovic , author page on exodusmagazin.de (accessed on May 29, 2018)