Olaf Kemmler

Olaf Kemmler (born 1966 in Leverkusen ) is a German science fiction author and editor.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1985, Kemmler initially trained as a bank clerk , but then switched saddles and since then has been working as a graphic designer in an advertising technology company after a distance learning course in advertising graphics .

In 2007, Kemmler began publishing science fiction short stories in magazines and anthologies . Two of his short stories were nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize . From 2008 he was editor of the science fiction magazine Exodus, published by Blitz Verlag, alongside René Moreau and Heinz Wipperfürth . For this work, he and his colleagues were awarded the “Special Prize for Long-Term Outstanding Achievements in the German-Speaking SF” of the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in 2015.

The voice of a dead , a local crime thriller from the Bergisches Land , appeared in 2014 . Starting in 2018, Kemmler and Andreas Zwengel wrote six novels for The Adventures of Shalyn Shan , one of the sequel series of Spaceship Promet . In 2019, Kemmler published an art book about Rudolf Sieber-Lonati , one of the most productive cover illustrators of the German magazine novel .

Awards

• 2010 nomination for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the short story Die Weisheit der Hydra
• 2012 nomination for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the short story The Kiss of the Delta Florids
• 2015 Special prize for long-term outstanding achievements in the field of German-speaking SF of the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize (with René Moreau and Heinz Wipperfürth )

bibliography

The adventures of the Shalyn Shan

(Sub-series of Spaceship Promet , with Andreas Zwengel , Blitz-Verlag)

• 18 The Eye of Ra 2018, ISBN 978-3-95719-468-8 .
• 19 The Foreign Power 2018, ISBN 978-3-95719-469-5 .
• 20 The ruins of Antaran 2018, ISBN 978-3-95719-470-1 .
• 21 Eternal Damnation 2018, ISBN 978-3-95719-471-8 .
• 22 Escape from Luna Asylum 2018, ISBN 978-3-95719-472-5 .
• 23 The Cosmic Testament 2019, ISBN 978-3-95719-473-2 .

Single novels

• The voice of the dead: Bergischer Thriller. Blitz-Verlag, Windeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-89840-017-6 ( review ).

Short stories

• The perfect couple. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Nova 11. 2007.
• Lord of the Stars, Lord of Pain. In: Exodus No. 22 (December 2007).
• Conquering the sky. In: fantastic! No. 30 (March 2008).
• The thesis. In: Project Human. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, 2008.
• Indra's fire. In: Exodus No. 23 (June 2008).
• Don't go to the booksellers! In: c't No. 25 (December 2008).
• Sectio Aurea. In: Exodus No. 25 (July 2009).
• The wisdom of the hydra. In: c't 21 and 22 (September 2009).
• Purple grass. In: Exodus No. 26 (March 2010).
• Guest of Master Pforr. In: The shadow clock. Blitz-Verlag, 2011.
• The pie symbol. In: fantastic! No. 44 (October 2011).
• The kiss of the delta florids. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Nova 18. 2011.
• A suitcase full of thoughts. In: Exodus No. 30 (August 2013).
• Expedition to Eden. In: Exodus No. 33 (September 2015).
• I remember my death. In: Ronald M. Hahn (Ed.): Nova 24. 2016.
• Storm time. In: Mutiny on Titan. Verlag für Moderne Fantastik Gehrke, 2017.
• How to make love visible. In: Exodus No. 38 (September 2018).
• About the king and the great magician. In: Thomas Le Blanc (ed.): The potato mistake. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, 2018.
• The electric angel. In: Thomas Le Blanc (Ed.): Hybris. Fantastic Library Wetzlar, 2019.

Non-fiction

• Rudolf Sieber-Lonati - cult painter of the notebook novels. Blitz-Verlag, Windeck 2019.

Web links

• Olaf Kemmler , official website
• Olaf Kemmler in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Literature by and about Olaf Kemmler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Olaf Kemmler on the Exodus magazine website