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Wolfgang Jeschke (1936–2015)

Autore di The Last Day of Creation

164+ opere 1,226 membri 7 recensioni 1 preferito

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Serie

Opere di Wolfgang Jeschke

The Last Day of Creation (1981) 108 copie
The Cusanus Game (2005) 107 copie
Midas (1990) 28 copie
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1982 (1982) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 19 copie
Welten der Zukunft 6 (1987) — A cura di — 16 copie
Lexikon der Science Fiction Literatur 2 (1980) — A cura di — 16 copie
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1984 (1984) — A cura di — 16 copie
Der Zeiter (1973) 15 copie
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1983 (1983) — A cura di — 15 copie
Heyne SF Magazin III. (1982) 12 copie
Fernes Licht (2000) — A cura di — 12 copie
Heyne SF Magazin IV. (1982) 11 copie
Welten der Zukunft 5 (1987) — A cura di — 10 copie
Heyne SF Magazin V (1982) 10 copie
Das Science Fiction Jahr 1994. Ein Jahrbuch für den Science Fiction Leser (1994) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 10 copie
Fantasy: fünf ungekürzte Romane (1991) — A cura di — 9 copie
Heyne SF Magazin I. (1981) 9 copie
Welten der Zukunft 7 (1985) — A cura di — 9 copie
Ikarus 2002 (2002) — A cura di — 8 copie
Spinnenmusik. (1979) 8 copie
Titan XX. Klassische Science Fiction- Erzählungen. (1976) — A cura di — 8 copie
Das Auge des Phönix: Science Fiction aus Deutschland (1985) — A cura di; Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Land of Osiris (1986) 7 copie
Als der Welt Kohle und Eisen ausging (1983) — A cura di — 7 copie
Welten der Zukunft 10 (1986) — A cura di — 7 copie
Welten der Zukunft 4 (1985) — A cura di — 7 copie
Ikarus 2001. Best of Science Fiction. (2001) — A cura di — 7 copie
Das Science Fiction Jahr 2012 (2012) — A cura di — 7 copie
Dschiheads (2013) 7 copie
Die große Uhr (1977) 7 copie
Star Trek Classic Black Edition 2 (1995) — A cura di — 7 copie
Heyne Jahresband Science Fiction 1989. (1989) — A cura di — 7 copie
Welten der Zukunft 11 (1987) — A cura di — 7 copie
Venice 2 (1987) — A cura di — 7 copie
Heyne SF Magazin VIIII. (1983) 6 copie
Star Trek Classic Black Edition 1 (1995) — A cura di — 6 copie
Welten der Zukunft 12 (1986) — A cura di — 6 copie
Wassermans Roboter (1988) — A cura di — 6 copie
Das Science Fiction Jahr 2011 (2011) — A cura di — 6 copie
Science Fiction Story-Reader 13 (1984) — A cura di — 6 copie
Eine Lokomotive für den Zaren (1980) — A cura di — 5 copie
Heyne SF Magazin 07 (1985) 5 copie
Die Zeitbraut (1993) 5 copie
Auf der Strasse nach Oodnadatta (2002) — A cura di — 5 copie
Der Tod des Dr. Island. (1979) 5 copie
Die Verwandlung (1996) 4 copie
Meamones Auge. (1997) 4 copie
Die wahre Lehre — nach Mickymaus (1993) — A cura di — 4 copie
Entropie (1986) — A cura di — 4 copie
Im Grenzland der Sonne. (1978) 4 copie
Das Gewand der Nessa (1984) — A cura di — 3 copie
Winterfliegen. (1999) 3 copie
Feinde des Systems. (1981) 3 copie
Riffprimaten (1996) 3 copie
Das Jahr der Maus (2000) — A cura di — 3 copie
Papa Godzilla (1989) — A cura di — 3 copie
Aufbruch in die Galaxis. (1983) 2 copie
Das Wägen von Luft. (1999) 2 copie
Cusanus-játszma 1. (2008) 1 copia
Partner fürs Leben (2008) 1 copia
Das Blei der Zeit (1993) — A cura di — 1 copia
Orte der Erinnerung (2011) 1 copia
Die Anderen: Erzählung (2015) 1 copia
Der Türmer: Erzählung (2015) 1 copia
Mondaugen — A cura di — 1 copia

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Operazione domani (1982) — Herausgeber, alcune edizioni5,021 copie
Indietro nel tempo (1970) — Herausgeber, alcune edizioni4,114 copie
Pushing Ice (2005) — Herausgeber, alcune edizioni2,197 copie
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (2003) — Herausgeber, alcune edizioni1,640 copie
The Science Fiction Century (1997) — Collaboratore — 530 copie
To the Stars (1981) — A cura di, alcune edizioni422 copie
Galactic Empires, Volume Two (1976) — Publisher, alcune edizioni391 copie
Conan the Liberator (1979) — A cura di, alcune edizioni331 copie
Full Spectrum 3 (1991) — Collaboratore — 168 copie
Betcha Can't Read Just One (1993) — Collaboratore — 73 copie
The Best from the Rest of the World (1976) — Collaboratore — 67 copie
I, Robot / Earth Is Room Enough / The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1996) — A cura di, alcune edizioni58 copie
Se la storia fosse andata diversamente: saggi di storia virtuale (1931) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni56 copie
New Writings in SF-25 (1975) — Collaboratore — 56 copie
The Road to Science Fiction #6: Around The World (1998) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Frohes Fest (1989) — Autor, alcune edizioni13 copie
Titan I. Klassische Science Fiction- Erzählungen. (1976) — A cura di, alcune edizioni9 copie
Titan XVIII (1976) — A cura di, alcune edizioni8 copie
Titan VII. (1978) — A cura di, alcune edizioni8 copie
Titan - 2 (1976) — A cura di, alcune edizioni8 copie
Titan 21 (1976) — A cura di, alcune edizioni8 copie
Titan XIII. (1979) — A cura di, alcune edizioni8 copie
Titan XII. (1983) — A cura di, alcune edizioni7 copie
Titan 11 (1982) — A cura di, alcune edizioni7 copie
Titan 23. Klassische Science Fiction Erzählungen (1985) — A cura di, alcune edizioni7 copie
Titan 3 (1976) — A cura di, alcune edizioni6 copie
Neuland (1993) — Herausgeber, alcune edizioni6 copie
Titan - 16 (1983) — A cura di, alcune edizioni5 copie

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Informazioni generali

Altri nomi
Stanya, F.
Data di nascita
1936-11-19
Data di morte
2015-06-10
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Nazione (per mappa)
Germany
Luogo di nascita
Tetschen [now Děčín], Bohemia, Czechoslovakia
Luogo di morte
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Luogo di residenza
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Attività lavorative
author
editor

Utenti

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It's been nearly 15 years since I read this book, but I still remeber these short stories, especially 'The good Rat', 'The last Bastions' and 'Appropriate Love'. They illustrate one of the best points of science fiction. Not space ships and laser canons, but problems and deverlopments that make you think and don't let you go again.
 
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Sue_Z | Mar 22, 2022 |
Een Duitstalig boek en dat is uiteindelijk de enige reden waarom ik het heb uitgelezen.
Ooit gekocht toen ik een keer in Duitsland was en ik het leuk vond om een Duitstalig science fiction boek op de kop te tikken. Omdat ik al die schrijvers niet ken, was het achterflappen lezen om een keuze te maken. Dit boek leek het meest science fiction tussen de verder meer fantasy-achtig lijkende boeken.
En science fiction is dit boek zeker.

Het heeft ook nog een interessant uitgangspunt namelijk de bemanning van een neergestort ruimteschip ontwikkelt zijn eigen maatschappij op een leefbare planeet. Het wordt een op zwaar religieuze basis gebaseerde maatschappij met een duidelijke hiërarchie en scheve machtsverhoudingen. Een behoorlijke tijd later komen mensen deze planeet bezoeken en onderzoeken. En dit had op allerlei interessant mogelijke manieren kunnen uitpakken maar het werd een verhaal met alleen maar lege clichés.

Ook was ik niet gecharmeerd door de vertelstijl. Zo wordt er plompverloren halverwege het boek van twee personages hun achtergrondgeschiedenis verteld. Er is geen enkele aanleiding toe en het voelt alsof de schrijver nog even wilde benadrukken waarom de personages bepaalde politieke opvattingen hadden. Het voelt als slordig schrijven.

Een boek in het Duits lezen doe ik eens in de paar jaar en daarvoor was het wel een goede ervaring want ik kon het redelijk goed volgen zonder voortdurend naar een woordenboek te hoeven grijpen. Oftewel het is geen moeilijk Duits.

Maar een beetje meer inhoud was wel leuk geweest.
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Niekchen | Sep 3, 2018 |
The greatness of this book lies in its novel mechanics of time travel, its structure, its setpieces, its mixture of alternate history and time travel, its poignancy and paradoxes, and the fate of a heroine whose voice is so appealing.

The titular game, named after a real 15th century ecclesiastical Nicolaus Cusanus who plays an important part in the story, is the organizing metaphor for the novel’s structure and the suggestive counterpoint for the journey of Domenica, a botanist who narrates most of the book. It’s a game where modified balls are thrown at a target, no game or moment in time is ever the same, and indirection is a strategy, patience a necessity.

And so it is with the opening of this book, a prologue that starts out like some tale of time travelers confronting medieval primitives, but it’s really just Europeans coming out from behind the walls (figurative and literal) they’ve built to keep hordes of refugees, fleeing climate change, from moving into northern Europe. And it’s not like there’s as much room as there used to be on the continent. A large swatch of Germany has been rendered uninhabitable by plutonium poisoning.

Patience is needed for the first 100 or so pages as Domenica is introduced, her voice leisurely giving us a travelogue of a violent Rome of the mid-21st century, a city plagued, by other things, feral talking dogs, weapons of war abandoned. And then the pace picks up as Domenica is recruited into a secret Vatican project to travel back in time to get genetic samples of extinct flora. Foreshadowing obvious and not so obvious is rife as early sections have Cusanus ominously speaking of a strange woman about to be burned as a witch.

Jeschke’s time travelers are memorably compared to “dogs on a subway”. They have little idea how their time travel system works or who built it or why, indeed little beyond some basic features they can exploit. Jeschke cleverly uses not only standard scenes of dialogue to explain things but epigraphs from cosmologists and artificial intelligence researchers like Albert Einstein and John Wheeler and David Deutsch and Cusanus himself to rationalize by suggestive speculation.

The plot, like the balls of Cusanus’ game, veers all around. Poignancy and suspense can quickly change to farce. Long travelogue sections suddenly become quick cut scenes of impending doom as Domenica goes on missions into time with both professional and personal ends. Why time travel dooms romance among its practioneers is laid out.

Some set pieces aren’t strictly necessary. A frail old woman tells how she alone survived years of isolation in space after a doomed Mars mission. Wheelchair bound veterans battle youths in Amsterdam street riots. But I enjoyed them as well as Jeschke’s extended extrapolations of virtual reality and nanotechnology.

In the middle of the book, is a chapter called “The Cusan Acceleratio”and previously published as a short. It’s a quite detailed timeline of an alternate history and integral to the book. It’s also understandable to see why Jeschke says it was the most difficult section to write.

Not so integral to the plot are the several almost identical scenes with Cusanus. I understand the purpose: to show how alterations in timelines affect Cusanus. However, I think they could have been shortened, and that was the book’s only flaw for me besides some predictable German phobias about nuclear power.

The ending is powerful and unexpected. The narrative stops in quite an unpredictable place.
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RandyStafford | 2 altre recensioni | Jun 4, 2014 |
Une approche intéressante du voyage dans le temps et des univers multiples.
 
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marcolbooky | 2 altre recensioni | Feb 11, 2013 |

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Statistiche

Opere
164
Opere correlate
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Utenti
1,226
Popolarità
#20,944
Voto
3.8
Recensioni
7
ISBN
178
Lingue
6
Preferito da
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