Nautilus (magazine)
| Nautilus - Adventure & Fantastic
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| description | Fantasy film magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Adventure |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Adventure Media Publishing House |
| First edition | November 1993 |
| attitude | 2016 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Widespread edition | 35,000 copies |
| editor | Jürgen Pirner |
| Web link | www.fantasymagazin.de |
| ISSN |
0946-3534 |
Nautilus - Abenteuer & Phantastik was a monthly German magazine on the subjects of film and literature in the genre of fantasy, fantasy and science fiction. A special feature of the Nautilus was the focus of the individual issues.
Alignment
Thematically, the Nautilus was oriented towards the genres of fantasy , adventure , mystery , science fiction , horror and thriller . As a film magazine, Nautilus concentrated on features for current and upcoming films, set reports, interviews with directors and actors, as well as film overviews on the respective topics and content to which a focus in the magazine was dedicated. There was also content on novels, audio books, comics and adventure games as well as non-fiction articles on topics from science, history, popular myths and the fantastic genre.
development
Nautilus began in 1993 in the tradition of the role-playing and fantasy magazine ZauberZeit , which was discontinued when the Laurin publishing house went bankrupt . The editor-in-chief Jürgen Pirner founded the Abenteuer Medien Verlag and continued to run the magazine under a new name. In the course of the increasing popularity of fantastic topics in the various media, the magazine opened up to the entire spectrum.
Since issue 14, 12/2001, Nautilus has been listed in press sales in the IVW group "Kino-Magazines". From 2002 to 2004 the magazine was the organ of The Lord of the Rings and published film reports, interviews with actors and set designers, and encyclopedic articles on JRR Tolkien and Middle-earth . In the field of fantasy, the Nautilus was among other things the organ of book publishers such as Bastei Lübbe and Heyne . Since issue 27, 06/2006, the Nautilus has appeared monthly. Since issue 51, 06/2008, every issue could be browsed online in advance. In 2011 and 2012, the Nautilus was awarded the German Phantastik Prize in the category of best secondary work. In 2016 the magazine was discontinued with the 142nd issue.
Editors and authors
Well-known fantasy and SF authors such as Thomas Finn , Bernhard Hennen , Uwe Anton and Alexander Huiskes were among the early editors .
Others
The Nautilus also attracted particular attention in the field of artificial intelligence through a special issue with CD-ROM in 2001 on robots and AI and the development of the Jabberwock chatbot based on the character of the fantasy monster Jabberwocky from Alice in Wonderland . The Jabberwock won, among other things, the Loebner Prize in 2003 for the "most human-like artificial intelligence" and in 2005 the international Chatterbox Challenge.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fantasy magazine Nautilus ( Memento from October 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on X-Zine .
- ↑ http://www.deutscher-phantastik-preis.de/
- ↑ http://www.chatbots.org/chatterbot/jabberwock/