Stanisław Lem

Franz Rottensteiner

In ten essays, a master of science fiction and fantasy discusses the current state of the genre in analyses of the scientific and literary bases of his own and others' work

Microworlds

Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy

Polaris 7 - Ein Science-Fiction Almanach

Polaris 10 - Ein Science-Fiction Almanach Arkadi und Boris Strugatzki gewidmet

Phantastische Träume

Beyond the frontiers of reason there extends the vast, shadowy world of fantasy, where monsters lurk in the gloomy depths, vampires flit across the face of the moon, and imagination reigns supreme. Franz Rottensteiner explores the world of fantasy as it appears in the literature of the West. The dark side of the mind, that fascinating and perilous Dream State, has produced its own literature of the weird, the uncanny, and the demoniac. Since the beginning of time, storytellers have told of remote and exotic realms filled with ghosts, werewolves, ghouls, and zombies. From the clinical horrors of Edgar Allan Poe to the nightmare bureaucracy of Kafka; from Frankenstein to Alice in Wonderland; from Rider Haggard to C.S. Lewis; from the Jewish ghetto of the golem to the decayed castle of Gormenghast - The Fantasy Book presents a spectral march of figures and themes from the edge of reality, and beyond.

An Illustrated History from Dracula to Tolkien

The Fantasy Book

Discusses the history of science fiction, including Frankenstein, Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, Mars stories, dime novels and pulp heroes, Cyrano de Bergerac, Hugo Gernsback, Tsiolkovsky, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Abraham Merritt, robots, E.E. "Doc" Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, John W. Campbell Jr., Jules Verne, Olaf Stapledon, C.S. Lewis, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, hollow earth stories, Arthur Conan Doyle, anti-utopian fiction, Albert Robida, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Hannes Bok, Buck Rogers, Superman, television science fiction, aliens, science fiction in the Soviet Union, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Rumania, and Germany, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stanislaw Lem, science fiction fandom, the Nebula Awards and the Hugo Awards.

An Illustrated History

The Science Fiction Book

Uwe Stilla

Helmut Mayer

Boris Jutzi

Matthias Butenuth

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ISPRS Conference on Photogrammetric Image Analysis, held in Munich, Germany, in October 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on orientation, matching, object detection, 3D reconstruction and DEM, classification, people and tracking, as well as image processing.

ISPRS Conference, PIA 2011, Munich, Germany, October 5-7, 2011. Proceedings

Photogrammetric Image Analysis

A second edition, with a completely new contextual introduction and other new material, of a superb selection (first published in 1973 and for long out of print) of some of the best science fiction from continental Europe. Included are stories by Stanislaw Lem (Poland), Vsevolod Ivanov (Russia), Eurocon-award winner Adrian Rogoz (Romania), Herbert W. Franke (Germany), Wolfgang Jeschke (Germany), Gerard Klein (France) and others.

View from Another Shore

Handsomely equipped with a comprehensive introductory historical essay, editor's notes and selected bibliography, this distinguished anthology is a model of genre research. These previously untranslated stories, published from 1871 onward, offer reading virtually unknown to most American (and many German) readers. Some authors combine scientific and philosophical issues, like Kurd Lasswitz in his witty tale "To the Absolute Zero of Existence: A Story from 2371," while others, as in Erik Simon's 1983 title story, pose psychological puzzles involving alien phenomena. Though the earlier stories in particular demand painstaking reading, all of them repay it with rewarding insights into German and Austrian culture and the many possible uses and misuses of science.

Franz Rottensteiner

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