Jakob Schmidt (Author)

Jakob Schmidt (* 1978 in Göttingen ) is a German translator, author of Fantastik and bookseller.

He has translated works by Kim Stanley Robinson , KJ Parker , Michael Grant and Catherine Jinks into German. In 2012, together with Jasper Nicolaisen , he was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize for his translation of David Marusek's collection of stories We were beside ourselves with happiness . He has been co-owner of the renowned Berlin bookstore Otherland since 2013 . Also in 2013, his first collection of shorter stories Nothing Evil was published .

In 2010 he took part in the literary experiment Hinterland published by Karla Schmidt , an anthology published by Wurdack , for which 20 authors wrote science fiction stories based on music by David Bowie .

Translations

• Kim Stanley Robinson : The Novels of Philip K. Dick . A monograph , Shayol Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-926126-51-5
• Catherine Jinks: Teuflisches Genie , Knaur 2010, ISBN 978-3426500415
• David Marusek: We were beside ourselves with happiness , Golkonda 2011, ISBN 978-3942396035
• Chris Beckett: Messias machine , Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3-426-51119-0
• BROM : Krampus (orig .: Krampus - The Yule Lord ). Knaur, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-426-65334-0 .
• Mira Grant: Deadline. Deadly Truth , LYX Egmont 2013, ISBN 978-3-8025-8417-6
• Michael Grant: BZRK 1 , Egmont INK, 2013, ISBN 978-3863960391
• Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson : The Throne of the Desert Planet , Roman, Heyne 2014. ISBN 978-3-453-52720-1
• Josin L. McQuein: Arclight - Nobody Survives the Darkness , Egmont INK, 2014. ISBN 978-3-86396-035-3
• M. John Harrison : Light. The trilogy , novel (with PH Linckens), Heyne 2014. ISBN 978-3-453-31559-4
• Kim Stanley Robinson: Schamane , Heyne 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-26948-4
• Frank Herbert: The desert planet . Heyne, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-453-31717-8 .

Works

• Space suits & robber pistols. Fantastic short stories , (as Schlotzen & Kloben together with Jasper Nicolaisen and Simon Weinert), Shayol, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-926126-94-8
• No Evil: Stories , Edition Medusenblut, 2013, ISBN 978-3935901161

literature

• Franz Rottensteiner : Nothing bad . In: Quarber Mercury . Franz Rottensteiner's literary magazine for science fiction and fantasy , vol. 115, pp. 207f., 2014. ISBN 978-3-934273-94-8

Web links

• Jakob Schmidt in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)