The light year was a seven-part fantasy - book series of the 1980s and '90s in the GDR from the publisher The New Berlin were (Band 1 to 6 "... as the content of the most successful and because of their design and equipping and most SF books in the DDR ”) or from 1999 (Volume 7 as a publication of the Freundeskreis SF Leipzig eV).
Emergence In this series, known as the “Fantastic Almanac”, fantastic stories, short stories, essays , poems, picture stories, articles and bibliographies with partly colored illustrations were published on up to 280 pages. Additional editions are not known. The volumes cost between 16.80 and 19.80 marks or German marks .
Volume 1 was the only paperback edition of this series of books and was available with a colored dust jacket and elements of space travel, images of Copernicus and Albert Einstein , a satellite and much more. From volume 2, the volumes were available with hardcover and also with a colored protective cover . All volumes are designed in landscape format (approx. 21 × 19.5 cm²), the texts are sometimes set in very large letters, sometimes in the usual size. Volumes 1 and 3 to 6 contained up to three partially one-page picture stories ( comics ). The graphic designer on the cover of Volume 7 received the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in 2000.
The Freundeskreis Science Fiction Leipzig eV (FKSFL for short) continued the series with publisher Erik Simon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, some texts that had already been prepared could not be published because the authors (mostly from former socialist countries) could no longer be contacted. In 1990, the publisher rejected the planned publication. Volume 7 received the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis twice in 2000, once for the best graphic on SF by Mario Franke and once as a special award for the courage and risk of publishing such a work, which Erik Simon and the FKSFL have proven.
List of the complete book series
year
Title (Ed.)
Contributions
price
Pages a
Order / ISB no.
Edition
1980
Light year 1 (Eds. Ekkehard Redlin and Erik Simon ) b
17th
16.80 marks
240 + 16
622 441 3
approx. 20,000
1981
Light year 2 (Ed. Erik Simon) b
18th
17.80 marks
256 + 16
622 496 6
approx. 20,000
1984
Light year 3 (Ed. Erik Simon) b
18th
18.50 marks
280 + 24
622 678 5
approx. 20,000
1985
Light year 4 (Ed. Erik Simon) b
13
17.50 marks
232 + 24
622 678 5
approx. 20,000
1986
Light year 5 (Ed. Erik Simon)
22nd
19.80 marks
304 + 24
3-360-00052-8
approx. 18,000
1989
Light year 6 (Ed. Erik Simon)
19th
19.80 marks
288 + 24
3-360-00183-4
approx. 20,000
1999
Light year 7 (Ed. Erik Simon)
23
54.00 DM
284 + 12
3-00-005005-1
about 00. 500
Posts in light year 1
Posts in light year 2
author
title
Bernd Ulbrich On my own behalf
Andrzej Czechowski
The truth about the Elekter
Rolf Krohn Light spell after dew
Georgi Gurevich The twelve angry critics
FP Freyburg
A visit to Jules Verne
Arkadi Strugazki My Jules Verne
Fritz Reinel
The profile
Manuel van Loggem Sfan
Viktor Kolupayev
What strange trees
Marietta Chudakova
Of space and time
Vladimir Colin In a circle, ever closer
Heiner Rank Beautiful Bella
Stanislaw Lem About the science fiction ghetto
Karlheinz Steinmüller
About Lem and GOLEM
Johanna Braun, Günter Braun
Time repayment
Günter Braun, Johanna Braun
Fa and Cre
Olaf R. Spittel Bibliography of science fiction in the GDR 1949–1979 / GDR authors
Posts in light year 3
author
title
(without information)
A hundred lines about SF: G. Prokop, A. Kröger, K. Möckel, Vl. Colin
(without information)
A hundred lines over a light year
Rolf Krohn
The doctor
(without information)
A hundred lines about SF: W. Kellner, C. Rasch, G. Branstner
Ágnes Hosszu
Hermann, the ermine
Frank Petermann Board diary
Wolfram Kober personality
Ekkehard Redlin
Release in nowhere
Ángel Arango
Where do the cephalohomos go?
Gottfried Meinhold Liana Halwegia
(without information)
A hundred lines about SF: K.-H. Tuschel, J. Nesvadba, A. and B. Strugazki, H. Rank
Vsevolod Revich
Fantastic is not a topic, but a way of thinking
Roman Podolny
Who believes it?
Anton Hykisch A young man with a headache
Hermann Ley
George Orwell's ambivalent apotheosis on 1984
Andreas Melzer King in mate
(without information)
A hundred lines about SF: B. Ulbrich, K. Steinmüller, K. Bulytschow, A. Leman
Olaf R. Spittel
Bibliography of science fiction in the GDR 1949–1979 / authors of socialist foreign countries
Posts in light year 4
author
title
Arkadi and Boris Strugazki
The dream machine
Vladimir Gakov
The finest hour of science fiction films
Thomas Fröhlich
the beast
Andreas Melzer
The sun far ahead
Agop Melkonjan
The crying after the pain
Hartmut Mechtel The fantastic method
Mikhail Pukhov
The terminator
Rolf Krohn
On the shore of infinity
Wolfgang waiter
Deadly error
Adam Hollanek
The lover of the moon
Angela Steinmüller The miracle elixir
Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller
The hero in the Transparent Mountain
Olaf R. Spittel
Bibliography of science fiction in the GDR 1949–1979 / authors from non-socialist countries and German pre-war authors
Posts in light year 5
author
title
(without information)
Worlds in nowhere
Ursula K. Le Guin
Things
Ursula K. Le Guin
A box full of darkness
Erik Simon The sister of the fairy tale
Tais Teng
From the legends of Cotrahviné
(without information)
Visits
Detlef Budde
Noah
Jörg Mosch
The radiation
Klaus D. Kruger
The dream
Arkadi and Boris Strugazki
The legend of the one-legged visitor
(without information)
Worlds in space and time
Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller
Sterntaler
Alfred Leman Baba and the forty-two bulls
Werner Forster Through times and spaces
Pavel Amnuel
Higher than clouds, mountains and sky
(without information)
Everyday miracles
Lyubov and Yevgeny Lukin
Click!
Lyubov and Yevgeny Lukin
awakening
Miloš Ščepka
The last chance
(without information)
Position determinations
Ognyan Saparev
Four aspects of science fiction literature
Karsten Kruschel The big approach maneuver
(without information)
Spaceman
Jörg Gernreich
On the verge of eternity
Andreas Melzer
Pilotage, everyday
Andreas Melzer
Escape route aft
Olaf R. Spittel
Bibliography of science fiction in the GDR 1949–1979 / supplements
Posts in light year 6
author
title
(without information)
traveler
Karsten Kruschel
... and always do what is sensible
Holger Kunadt
A dream from afar
Hartmut Mechtel
Sifrit
Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller
Oxygen starvation history
(without information)
Transformations
Olga Larionova Divorce in Martian
Ladislav Ježek
Homer's dream of death
Eugeniusz Dȩbski
The resident
(without information)
Retrospectives
Ludwig Hevesi Jules Verne in Hell
Ludwig Hevesi
Jules Verne in heaven
Vitali Bugrow
... and invented themselves!
Karlheinz Steinmüller
By train into space
(without information)
Simulations
Holger Kunadt
Three dollars fifty
Marek Baraniecki
The recruited man
Rolf Krohn
On the other bank of the night
(without information)
contacts
Heinz Günter Behnert
nightmare
Jörg Mosch
Contact syndrome
Ian Watson Nightmare
Olaf R. Spittel
Bibliography of secondary literature on science fiction in the GDR 1949–1983
Posts in light year 7
author
title
(without information)
Dangerous planets
Wolfram Kober
The Kinsky syndrome
Detlef Budde
The cannibal from Sheena
Peter Schünemann
The monster
Andreas Melzer
Narrow horizons
(without information)
100 lines on the GDR-SF: Look back J. and G. Braun, A. Sckerl, K. Frühauf, K. Kruschel
(without information)
Vanguard and rearguard
Günther Krupkat Prisoners of the Eternal Circle (Two excerpts from the story)
Johanna and Günter Braun
The logic machine
Karlheinz Steinmüller
All the curses in the world
Erik Simon
The science fiction of the GDR 1991 to 1998 (and before)
Alexander Kroger Night shift
Johanna and Günter Braun
The girl from the moon street
(without information)
100 lines about the GDR-SF: Undaunted looks ahead / A. Kröger, C. Rasch, E. Redlin
(without information)
Thinking machines
Alfred Leman
Circular spiral
Jörg Mosch
perforation
(without information)
100 lines about the GDR-SF: Skeptical looks all around / K.-H. Tuschel, K. Möckel, M. Szameit, R. Krohn
(without information)
Robinsons and Settlers
Angela Steinmüller
The last of the unborn
Karsten Kruschel
Rain dragons die when the sun shines
Rolf Krohn
The vision
(without information)
100 lines on the German and GDR SF: Views from next door / HJ Alpers, HW Franke, RM Hahn, W. Jeschke, H.Pukallus
Hans-Peter Neumann
Bibliography of science fiction by former GDR authors 1991–1999
Hans-Peter Neumann
Annotated bibliography of secondary literature on East German and GDR SF that appeared in 1990–1999
Erik Simon
Overview of light years 1 to 7
Individual evidence
↑ Laudation for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize. Laudation for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize. 2000, accessed July 28, 2016 .
↑ (various): Publications of the FKSFL. Lichtjahr 7. Erik Simon, 1999, accessed on July 28, 2016 .
↑ KLP 2000 Best Graphics. www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de. Retrieved July 28, 2016 .
↑ KLP 2000 special price. www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de. Retrieved July 28, 2016 .
Web links
Lichtjahr Internet Speculative Fiction Database (list of clickable individual volumes)
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