Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Centuries | 
so-soAn academic discussion of utopian, futurist, and science fiction writing, and the literary role of sf texts, in context of German-language science fiction. It's pretty dry, and I'm certain I missed subtleties of the author's argument. But I was all eyes on a series of chapters discussing sf subgenres, with summaries of representative German novels.
Reader, my TBR grew like a radioactive sewer rat.
This was my August #BookSpin
Ruthiella I would have thought you‘d already read every German Sci-Fi book from the 20th century! 😜 What is an example of a book or author that‘s new to you/your radioactive TBR? 3y
swynn @Ruthiella I wish! In an appendix, Cornils offers a list of about 70 titles he regards as essential to German sf - I was aware of about half of them, but have read only three. 🙄 An example of a new-to-me title is Marlen Haushofer's “Die Wand“ (1963, translated to English as “The Wall“ 1990), about a woman vacationing in the Austrian Alps when one morning she discovers that she has been cut off from civilization by an invisible wall. 3y
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