Andymon

Andymon. Eine Weltraum-Utopie (Andymon. A Space Utopia) is a 1982 East German science fiction novel by Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller.

It was republished in 2004, revised by authors and supplied with a detailed afterword titled " 'This sentence saved the book'. The long road to Andymon".

In 1999 the authors wrote a prequel short story, Das Auswandererschiff.

Plot summary

Authors' summary:

Reception

It was ranked as the most popular East German science fiction novel in a 1989 poll.

In 2019, Germany’s SF portal Tor Online conducted a poll among 219 participants, after which a jury selected "The 100 Best Science Fiction Books of All Time" (). Andymon was one of them, one of the only six written by German authors.

References

Further reading

• David Draut. Zwiespältige Zukunftsvisionen. Das Autorenpaar Steinmüller und die ostdeutsche utopische Science Fiction. Tectum, Marburg, 2014. .
• Erik Simon, a review of Andymon published in Foundation, #34 Autumn 1985 (Russian translation)

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