The world of tomorrow

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The world of tomorrow and novels from the world of tomorrow was the brothers White Verlag in Berlin-Schöneberg 1949-1962 in 74 volumes published science fiction - book series . Of the SF series launched in the late 1940s, the novels from the world of tomorrow were the most famous and longest lasting.

The series

The series began in 1949 with several titles by Hans Dominik , but English and French titles soon followed in proper translations, a number of which were translated by Else von Hollander-Lossow . Most recently, the Strugatzki brothers appeared from the Russian nuclear volcano Golkonda . The majority of these were novels that were offered in both half- linen and full-linen editions . The appearance as bound editions, which was unusual for the circumstances at the time, is explained by the fact that Gebrüder Weiß Verlag supplied not only the book trade, but also the lending libraries that were widespread at the time .

Anglo-Saxon authors today included classic titles by Arthur C. Clarke , Edmond Hamilton and Robert A. Heinlein , some of which were first German translations. The Alpers et al. confirms that the series has a “reputable reputation that was rare in the field of booklet and loan book publishers at the time, as far as discreet presentation and excellent translations were concerned”, but “an overly traditional knitting of most German titles” and “blurred (between youth books, technical science fiction and upscale science fiction oscillating) contours of the program ”. As then and also with later SF series by Heyne and Goldmann , some significant cuts were made in the transmissions. The series was discontinued in 1961, but the remaining editions were offered again and again in the modern antique shop for many years .

From 1956 to 1959, the series of Utopian paperbacks with a total of 12 titles was published in parallel .

In addition to the SF titles published by its own publishing house, Gebrüder Weiß Verlag also delivered the titles by Freder van Holk published by Bielmannen Verlag in Munich for a long time . These titles were:

  • The great mirror (1949)
  • The End of the Gulf Stream (1952)
  • Assassination attempt on the universe (1949)
  • Humus (1952)
  • Sun engine No. 1 (1950)
  • Space Station (1952)
  • The growing sun (The growing sun & the dying steel) (1950)
  • The Immortals (1952)
  • The Scar (1952)
  • The ray from the cosmos (1950)

List of novels from tomorrow's world

Author (s) German title year Original title year translator
Hans Dominik Atlantis 1949
Hans Dominik Atomic weight 500 1949
Hans Dominik Modern pirates 1949
Hans Dominik The steel secret 1950
Hans Dominik Flight into space 1950
Robert A. Heinlein Moon terminus 1951 Rocket Ship Galileo 1947 Herbert Roch and Kurt Seibt
Hans Dominik The legacy of the Uranids 1952
Hans Dominik The order from the dark 1952
Hans Dominik The trail of Genghis Khan 1952
Hans Dominik Invisible powers 1952
Edmond Hamilton Ruler in space 1952 The Star Kings 1947 Margret Auer
Robert A. Heinlein The red planet 1952 The Red Planet 1949 Herbert Roch
Robert A. Heinlein Space pilots 1952 Space Cadet 1948 Herbert Roch
Hans Dominik The power of three 1953
Hans Dominik Celestial power 1953
Hans Dominik Life rays 1953
Bernard Newman Three men and one planet 1953 The Flying Saucer 1948 Erwin Thomas
Freder van Holk Eerie light disks 1953
Paul Eugen victory Insula 1953
Nelson Bond Lancelot Biggs' wondrous space voyages 1953 Lancelot Biggs, spaceman 1950 Kurt Seibt
Arthur C. Clarke Dawn project 1953 Sands of Mars 1951 Herbert Roch
René Barjavel Deluge of atoms 1953 Le diable l'emporte 1948 Kurt Seibt
Hans Dominik rubber 1954
Claus Eigk The day zero 1954
Freder van Holk The end of the Gulf Stream 1954
Freder van Holk Grapes from Greenland 1954
Freder van Holk Maybe tomorrow is the last day 1954
Paul Eugen victory Angolesa 1954
Richard Koch The Philosopher's Stone 1954
Robert A. Heinlein Adventure in the realm of the stars 1954 Starman Jones 1953 Kurt Seibt
Arthur C. Clarke The earth lets go of us 1954 Prelude to Space 1951 Herbert Roch
Freder van Holk Blue ball 1954
Freder van Holk Remote souls 1954
Claus Eigk The red riddle 1955
Freder van Holk Assassination attempt on the universe 1955
Freder van Holk Kosmotron 1955
Paul Eugen victory Detatom 1955
Robert A. Heinlein Between the planets 1955 Between planets 1951 Kurt Seibt
Jean-Gaston Vandel Invasion from the cosmos 1955 Assassination attempt cosmique 1953 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Jean-Gaston Vandel Robots in space 1955 Territoire robot 1954 Kurt Seibt
Freder van Holk All fires are extinguished on earth 1956
Freder van Holk Hell between us 1956
Paul Eugen victory Southeast Venus 1956
Robert A. Heinlein Tunnel to the stars 1956 Tunnel in the Sky 1955 Kurt Seibt
Robert A. Heinlein Space mollusks are conquering the earth 1957 The Puppet Masters 1951 Margret Auer
Freder van Holk The unleashed earth 1957
Richard Koch The pulled down star 1957
Edmund Schopen Beyond the Milky Way 1957
Robert A. Heinlein From star to star 1957 Time for the stars 1956 Kurt Seibt
Arthur C. Clarke In the depths of the sea 1957 The Deep Range 1954 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Arthur C. Clarke To power on the moon 1957 Earthlight 1955 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Hans Dominik The fire of the Great Pyramid 1958
Claus Eigk Shore in space 1958
Heinrich Hauser Giant brain 1958
Richard Koch Starry Mon. 1958
Freder van Holk End of the world 1958
Robert A. Heinlein Inhabitants of the Milky Way 1958 Citizen of the Galaxy 1957 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Karel Čapek Krakatite 1959 Krakatite J. Mader
Edwin Balmer , Philip Wylie When worlds collide 1959 When Worlds Collide 1932 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Fredric Brown The green devils from Mars 1959 Martians Go Home 1954 Herbert Roch
Charles Eric Maine Crisis in 2000 1959 Crisis 2000 1955 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Bernhard Kellermann The tunnel 1959
John Christopher The valley of life 1959 Death of Grass 1956 Gerhard Thebs
Kurd Lasswitz On two planets 1959
Robert A. Heinlein Pirates in space 1960 Have Spacesuit - Will Travel 1958 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Jean-Gaston Vandel Shipwreck across the galaxy 1960 Naufragés des galaxies Ernst Pluth
Richard Koch The ring of the six worlds 1960
Edwin Balmer , Philip Wylie On the new planet 1960 After World Collide 1933 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Arthur C. Clarke The last generation 1960 Childhood's End 1953 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Edmund Schopen The Chancellor of Africa 1960
Robert A. Heinlein A double life in the cosmos 1961 Double star 1956 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Richard Koch Ozeano, the water planet 1961
Jean-Gaston Vandel Extinct stars 1961 Les astres morts 1952 Ernst Pluth
Arkadi and Boris Strugatzki Golkonda nuclear volcano 1962 Страна багровых туч 1959 Willi Berger

List of utopian paperbacks

Author (s) German title year Original title year translator
Edmond Hamilton SOS - the earth is cold 1956 City A t World's End 1951 Margret Auer
Jean-Gaston Vandel Alarm from the invisible 1956 Bureau de l'invisible 1955 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Oscar J. Friend Man from Mars on a special mission 1956 The Kid From Mars 1949 Margret Auer
Jules Verne Travel around the earth in 80 days 1957 Le tour du monde en quatrevingts jours 1874 Dorothea Rahm
Jules Verne 20,000 leagues under the sea 1957 Vingt mille lieues sous les mers 1870 Dorothea Rahm
Richard Koch Anti-Atom D 172 1957
Rudolf H. Daumann Danger from space 1957
David Duncan Company "Neptun" 1957 Beyond Eden 1955 Else von Hollander-Lossow
Isaac Asimov I, the robot 1958 I, robot 1950 Otto obliquely
John W. Campbell The thing from another world (stories) 1958 Who Goes There? 1948
Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy Aelita 1958 Аэлита 1922 Herta von Schulz
Alexander Robé SOS from Venus 1959

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Joachim Alpers et al .: Lexikon der Science-Fiction-Literatur 2. Munich 1980, p. 1158.