Dirk van den Boom

DO ANDROIDS EAT ELECTRIC SHEEP OR DO THEY JUST DEVOUR US?

A soliloquy about androids, robots, souls, digital anxiety, and the Global Imbecility Boom Whoever cannot feel is not human. But whoever feels too much risks collapsing! And what happens when humans become less human than the machines they build? There are mornings when you wake up with the sensation that the world has been replaced overnight by a cheap knockoff, a kind of Chinese replica of reality, hastily...
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“The Ninth Expansion” – new shared-universe-series in Germany

In December one of the biggest small presses in Germany, Wurdack Press, has officially announced the launch of a new shared-universe-series to be published...

Exhibition “Science Fiction in Germany” started

The Foundation "Haus der Geschichte" (House of History of Germany) in Bonn, the former capital of Germany, will show an exhibition titled "Science Fiction...

EuroCon 2017: German “DortCon”-Team plans bid

The bi-annual "DortCon" from Dortmund in Germany has big plans for 2017: The team of organizers has announced recently that they intend to make...

German SF-magazines: NOVA, phantastisch! and GEEK!

For many years German SF-magazines have been suffering from small circulation and difficult access towards their potential readership. Most magazines have only been accessible...

Awards: “Deutscher Phantastik Preis” in Germany

Last week, one of the major German SF-conventions, the "BuchmesseCon", normally organized along the traditional book fair in Frankfurt, has seen the announcements of...

German SF in series: Death, birth and rebirth

German speaking Science Fiction is famous for its manifold series - the eternal "Perry Rhodan", just reaching episode 2670, is not the only one. Recent...