György Botond-Bolics
György Botond-Bolics (born October 22, 1913 in Arad , † January 8, 1975 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian author and engineer.
Life
After studying political science , economics and mechanical engineering , he received his doctorate in 1935. Botond-Bolics was a company organizer, but after the war switched to a Budapest publishing house and worked as an editor, writer and publicist.
His first SF novel was published in 1957 under the title “Ha felszáll a köd…” (When the fog lifts). In addition to science fiction, Botond-Bolics also wrote novels, non-fiction and scripts for popular science films and television plays. He also worked as a translator and transferred a. a. German SF into Hungarian (like Ultrasymet remains secret from Heinz Vieweg ).
Of the two novels that have been translated into German, A Thousand Years on Venus is one of the traditions of the technically oriented SF of the 1950s, while The Martian Brain thinks differently is a thriller reminiscent of the Jekyll and Hyde theme and Donovan's brain by Curt Siodmak , in where a careless scientist downloads the thoughts of a Martian into his own brain and thereby changes uncontrollably.
Works
- Ha Felszáll a köd… (Budapest 1957)
- Ezer év a Vénuszon (Budapest 1959), German A Thousand Years on Venus , Marion von Schröder, Hamburg / Düsseldorf 1969, translated by Gottfried Feidel (paperback edition by Heyne 1971)
- Korunk csodái (Budapest 1960)
- Idegen bolygón született (Budapest 1961)
- Ma csoda - holnap valóság (Budapest 1966), German Miracle today, reality tomorrow. From the inexhaustible possibilities of research and technology , Econ, Vienna / Düsseldorf 1969, translated by Ernö Zeltner
- Redivivus tüzet kér (Budapest 1969), German The Mars brain thinks differently , Marion von Schröder, Hamburg / Düsseldorf 1970, translated by Gottfried Feidel;
- Az Orbitron-terv (Budapest 1986)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 50 f.
Web links
- György Botond-Bolics in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- György Botond-Bolics in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about György Botond-Bolics in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about György Botond-Bolics at Open Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature ( Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn , Wolfgang Jeschke ), Heyne, Munich 1980, p. 196
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Botond-Bolics, György |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian author and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arad |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1975 |
| Place of death | Budapest |