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Brandon Q. Morris

Brandon Q. Morris, pseudonym of Matthias Matting, born 28 August 1966 in Luckenwalde (East Germany), is a German writer of hard science-fiction.

Biography

After completing his physics studies at the TU Dresden, Matting became an editor at a specialist publisher for computer magazines in Munich. In the following years he worked among other things. as editor for Computer Bild, Wirtschaftswoche, Focus and Heise-Verlag. In addition, he regularly published specialist books on various technical topics as well as several fiction novels. Matting also operated web portals for self-publishers and offered seminars for authors. From February 2015 to December 2017 he was chairman of the board of the German Self Publisher Association, which he co-founded. Under the pseudonym, he has also been a science fiction writer since 2017.

Book features

All of Morris' books have an afterword educational chapter about the subject matter (such as a celestial object like Enceladus or concept like black holes) that drives the plot of the book.

Awards

  • In 2011 Matthias Matting was one of the first winners of the derneuebuchpreis.de (dnbp), endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, in the non-fiction category for Travel to Fukushima.
  • Skoutz Award 2019 in the Science Fiction category together with Cliff Allister for the novel Helium-3.
  • Fantastik-Literaturpreis Seraph 2020 - nomination longlist “Best Independent Title” for the novel Das Triton-Desaster.

Publications

  • Ice Moon series
  • Enceladus Mission (2017)
  • Titan Probe (2018)
  • Io Encounter (2018)
  • Return to Enceladus (2018)
  • Jupiter Catastrophe (2018)
  • Solar System series
  • Hole (2018)
  • Silent Sun (2018)
  • Rift (2019)
  • Triton Disaster (2020)
  • Clouds of Venus (2020)
  • Dark Spring (2020)
  • The Beacon (2021)
  • Pluto Debacle (2023)
  • The Uranus Fiasco (2023)
  • Disturbance series
  • The Disturbance (2022)
  • The Disturbance 2: The Answer (2022)
  • The Disturbance 3: The Truth (2023)
  • Proxima Trilogy
  • Proxima Rising (2019)
  • Proxima Dying (2019)
  • Proxima Dreaming (2019)
  • Proxima Logfiles
  • Marchenko's Children (2021)
  • Into the Darkness (2021)
  • Into the Light (2021)
  • Runaway (2021)
  • Evolution (2021)
  • Olom (2022)
  • Earthward (2022)
  • Big Rip Trilogy
  • The Death of the Universe (2020)
  • Ghost Kingdom (2020)
  • Rebirth (2020)
  • Amphirite series
  • Amphirite 1: The Black Planet (2020)
  • Amphirite 2 (2021)
  • Amphirite 3 (2021)
  • Andromeda series
  • Andromeda: The Encounter (2022)
  • Andromeda: The Sojourn (2022)
  • Andromeda: The Arrival (2022)
  • The Timeless Artifact series
  • Möbius – The Timeless Artifact (2022)
  • Möbius 2 – The Timeless Artifact (2022)
  • Möbius 3 – The Timeless Artifact (2022)
  • Mars Nation series
  • Mars Nation Part 1 (2019)
  • Mars Nation Part 2 (2019)
  • Mars Nation Part 3 (2019)
  • Helium 3 series, co-written by Cliff Allister
  • Helium-3: Fight for the Future (2021)
  • Helium-3: Death from the Past (2021)
  • Impact series
  • Impact: Titan (2020)
  • Impact: Earth (2020)
  • Standalone novels
  • The Wall: Eternal Day (2021) (a companion book, The Wall: Eternal Night (2021) is written by Joshua Calvert)
  • Lost Moon: Lunar Eclipse (2022) (a companion book, Lost Moon: Earth Storms (2022) is written by Tim L. Rey)

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