Quarter Mercury
| Quarter Mercury
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| description | Magazine for fantastic literature |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Publishing house Lindenstruth |
| First edition | 1963 |
| Frequency of publication | once a year |
| editor | Franz Rottensteiner |
| Web link | Quarber Merkur homepage |
| ISSN (print) | 1433-7932 |
The Quarber Mercury is one of Rottensteiner Franz published Journal of utopian and fantastic literature.
Content and frequency of publication
In the German-speaking world, the magazine is considered the leading periodical for the critical and theoretical discussion of fantastic literature . The contributions cover all forms of fantastic literature in the form of essays and reviews, from the classics of eerie narrative such as Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft to science fiction .
On the occasion of the publication of the 100th issue, the publisher Rottensteiner was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in 2004.
From 1997 to 2009 the magazine was published in the First German Fantasy Club e. V. , Passau. Quarber Merkur has been continued by Verlag Lindenstruth (Gießen) since No. 111 (September 2010) and is currently (December 2018) in its 119th edition.
Origin of name
The name of the magazine is derived from Quarb , a district of Pernitz in Lower Austria, in the vicinity of which Rottensteiner lived.
literature
- Franz Rottensteiner (Ed.): Quarber Merkur. Essays on Science Fiction and Fantastic Literature . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / M. 1979, ISBN 3-518-37071-5 ( Fantastic Library ; 34)
- Erik Simon : Index to the Quarber Mercury. Numbers 1 to 100 , with a preface by Franz Rottensteiner, EDFC, Passau 2005. ISBN 3-932621-81-6
Web links
- Quarber Merkur homepage
- The Quarber Mercury on Literaturkritik.de
- Quarber Mercury in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)