![]() ![]() Ypsilon Minus ( 1976) is set in a City under totalitarian control through Computer surveillance deviants are punished severely. ![]() Zone Null ( 1970 trans Chris Herriman 1974) sets up between a future Free World and an apparently defeated and deserted Zone Null a metaphysical questioning of the true aims of society and of the intermingled values of both opposed sides. ![]() Der Orchideenkäfig ( 1961 trans Christine Priest as The Orchid Cage 19) complexly depicts, in Franke's typically speculative and somewhat dry manner, the profound transformative effects of a mysterious planet on its human explorers. After publishing considerable nonfiction in the 1950s, mostly on either speleology or computer graphics (of which he was a pioneer), he also began publishing sf: at first speculative short stories such as those assembled in Der grüne Komet: Utopische-technische Kurzgeschichten (coll 1960) – at least five tales from which appeared in English translation – Fahrt zum Licht: Utopische Kurzgeschichten (coll 1964), Einsteins Erben (coll 1972) and Zarathustra kehrt zurück: Science-fiction Erzählungen (coll 1977).įranke also published several novels beginning with Das Gedankennetz ( 1961 trans Christine Priest as The Mind Net 19). ![]() (1927-2022) Austrian-born author and scientist who, after receiving a doctorate in Vienna in 1950, moved to Munich, where he taught cybernetic aesthetics at the University of Munich he has also written as by Sergius Both. ![]()
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