Karlheinz Steinmüller is a German physicist and science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author. Together with his wife Angela Steinmüller

Angela Steinmüller

Angela Steinmüller is a German mathematician and science fiction author. Together with her husband Karlheinz Steinmüller she has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms...

 he has written science fiction short stories and novels that depict human development on a cosmic scale, grounded in an analysis of social structures and mechanisms. Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller were not only among the most widely-read authors in the GDR, ranking at the top of a 1989 poll of most popular science fiction authors in the GDR, but their works continue to be republished.

Awards

• 1995: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
  Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
  The Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis is possibly the best-known science fiction award from Germany. The award is named after the science fiction author Kurd Laßwitz....
  
   "Best short story" for Leichter als Vakuum (with Angela Steinmüller and Erik Simon)
• 2001: German Fantasy Prize for die Verbreitung der phantastischen Literatur in zwei verschiedenen Gesellschaftssystemen sowie ihre Zukunftsperspektiven. (with Angela Steinmüller)
• 2004: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis "Beste Kurzgeschichte" für Vor der Zeitreise (gemeinsam mit Angela Steinmüller)

Novels (with Angela Steinmüller)

• Andymon. Eine Weltraum-Utopie
  Andymon
  Andymon. Eine Weltraum-Utopie is a 1982 East German science fiction novel by Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller. It was ranked as the most popular East German science fiction novel in a 1989 poll....
  
  , 1982
• Pulaster. Roman eines Planeten, 1986
• Der Traummeister, 1990
• Spera, 2004

External links

• Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller's home page