Peter Schattschneider
Peter Schattschneider (* 1950 in Vienna ) is an Austrian physicist and science fiction writer .
Life
Peter Schattschneider studied physics at the Technical University of Vienna until 1973 . The topic of his diploma thesis was radiographic determination of diffusion profiles in thin layers . From 1974 to 1977 he studied physics and mathematics teaching at the University of Vienna, after which he worked in remote sensing. From 1980 he worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Applied and Technical Physics.
His first science fiction story was published in 1978 and other short stories followed regularly in various anthologies and magazines, some under the pseudonym Thomas Loikaja . His works have also been translated into French and English .
From 1992 to 1993 he worked at the CNRS (Center Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris. In 1995 he received a visiting professorship at the École Centrale Paris . From 2000 to 2006 he was head of the university service facility for transmission electron microscopy (USTEM) at the Vienna University of Technology.
Prizes and awards
- 1981: Theodor Körner Prize for his work on the EEL spectrometer
- 1992: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the short story Easy to care for
- 1995: Kurd-Laßwitz-Prize for the short story Letter from the Beyond
Works
As an author
- Novels
- Singularities . An episodic novel about black holes. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1984, ISBN 3-518-37521-0 .
- Short story collections
- Base in the Sand Sea (as Thomas Loikaja). ( Terra Astra # 449). Pabel-Moewig , Rastatt. 1980
- Time stop . Science fiction stories. ( Fantastic Library ; Vol. 76). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1982, ISBN 3-518-37319-6 .
- Astray (as Thomas Loikaja). ( Terra Astra # 589). Pabel-Moewig , Rastatt. 1983
- Self-talk with protoplasm . Stories from the future. Verlag im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-03740-384-6 (with an afterword by Franz Rottensteiner ).
- Short stories
- 1978: lawbreaker
- 1979: Supercyte
- 1979: time stop
- 1980: intermediate stops
- 1980: The Other's Savior (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1980: The Housekeeper (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1980: One too many on board (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1980: Just a Bad Dream (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1980: Orcomp or Death (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1980: Base in the sand sea
- 1980: a fantastic success
- 1980: vacuum
- 1981: The other country
- 1981: L.'s fear of the stones
- 1981: love is a molecule
- 1981: Glaspalast company (with Alfred W. Drist)
- 1982: Universe Ω
- 1982: Most economical of all systems (new, completely redesigned and framed version of Orcomp or Tod )
- 1982: Wreck Sniffer (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1983: On the complementarity between realism and subjective idealism
- 1983: Encounter (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1983: Fragment of a Metamorphosis (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1983: Astray (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1983: Traces (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1983: To examine a matter of fact (as Thomas Loikaja)
- 1984: The Zwiedenker conspiracy
- 1984: the return
- 1986: SAM
- 1987: A letter from beyond
- 1988: Schnippchen
- 1989: GIPS Unlimited
- 1989: The riddle of the torture stake
- 1989: Conversation with protoplasm
- 1990: Diamond deal
- 1991: easy care!
- 1994: Letter from Beyond
- 1995: homemade
- 1996: Exit to?
- 1997: Zwiedenker
- 1999: Exit to Paradise
- 2018: deep sleep
- Non-fiction
- Fundamentals of inelastic electron scattering . Springer, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-211-81937-1 .
As editor
- Science fiction - tool or sensor of a technological world? Lecture series . EDFC, Passau 1995 (together with Karlheinz Steinmüller )
literature
- Franz Rottensteiner : Peter Schattschneider. Playing with reality , in: Franz Rottensteiner: In the laboratory of visions. Notes on the fantastic literature. 19 articles and lectures from the years 2000–2012 , Verlag Dieter van Reeken, Lüneburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-940679-72-7 , pp. 189–198.
- Günter Zettl: Interview with Peter Schattschneider , in: Science Fiction Times , Volume 26, 1984, Issue 9, pp. 5-8.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Schattschneider in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Schattschneider in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Peter Schattschneider at Open Library
- Peter Schattschneider at USTEM
Individual evidence
- ↑ EDFC stands for First German Fantasy Club.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schattschneider, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loikaja, Thomas (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physicist and science fiction writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |