LoveStar
LoveStar is a novel by Andri Snær Magnason that was published in Iceland in 2002. A German translation has been available since 2010.
content
When strange apparitions haunt planet Earth, including the disorientation of insects and airplanes, the hour comes for LoveStar, a small Icelandic company. It finds both the cause and the solution for these problems and subsequently rises meteorically to become the company that dominates the world. The invention of the engineer LoveStar enables computers and other devices to be controlled by the mind through a small device, but people can also be controlled. As a result, LoveStar controls life on the planet: all communication, all advertising, the entire economy is controlled by the group. In addition, one regulates love with the subsidiary inLove, which does not tolerate any contradiction when it comes to the selection of suitable love partners, and dying with LoveDeath, which lets corpses burn up like falling stars in the night sky.
Not all of them submit to the dictates of LoveStar and inLove: SigrÍður and Indriði do not want to be captured and try to defend their love against all odds.
Nominations
The work was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award 2013 and received the Award for Special Mention . In 2002, the Icelandic edition was nominated for the three literary prizes Icelandic Literary Award 2002 , the DV Cultural Award for best novel in Iceland 2002 and the Best novel 2002 of the Icelandic booksellers.
expenditure
- Icelandic: LoveStar. Mál og Menning, Reykjavík 2002, ISBN 9979-3-2369-8 (several editions).
- English: LoveStar. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. Seven Stories Press 2012, ISBN 978-1-60980-426-8 .
- German: LoveStar. Translated from Icelandic by Tina Flecken . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7857-6028-4 .
- French: LoveStar. Roman trad. De l'islandais by Eric Boury. Zulma, Honfleur 2015, ISBN 978-2-84304-700-8 .
literature
- Berlind Steinsdóttir: Hugmynd tekur völdin. To LoveStar eftir Andra Snæ Magnason. In: Timarit máls og menningar. ISSN 0256-8438 , Volume 64, 2003, Issue 2, pp. 28-31.
- Regina Jucknies: Andri Snær Magnason, LoveStar, Roman. In: Iceland. Journal of the German-Icelandic Society ISSN 0535-7209 , Volume 16, 2010, Issue 1, pp. 69–71.
- Anna Önfjörd: Möguleikar og takmörk þýðinga. Þýðing á skáldsögu Andra Snæs Magnasonar LoveStar and ritgerð um möguleika and takmörk þýðinga. 2012 (PhD thesis).
- Tobias Lehmkuhl: book review hand-free with zip. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur from April 2, 2010.
- LoveStar. Andri Snaer Magnason, Author, Victoria Cribb, Translator. In: Publishers Weekly of September 17, 2012.
Web links
- Love Star in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Meeting in thegap
Individual evidence
- ^ Philip K. Dick Award . Retrieved August 28, 2015.