Michael Szameit
Michael Szameit was a German science fiction writer.
Born in 1950 in Priessen in East Germany, he became an electrician before beginning studies in physics, which he had to abandon for health reasons. Later, he worked as a sound technician, eventually becoming head of a recording studio for radio and television. From 1981 to 1984, he worked in the editorial office of the Neues Leben publishing house.
In 1984, he became a freelance writer. He later lived in Hamburg, working as an editor and journalist for the German magazine Blinker.
His first short story was published in 1976, and his first novel in 1982, by the Neues Leben publishing house.
According to a poll held in 1990 by the club magazine Transfer of the SFC Andymon, he was at that point one of the four most popular science fiction writers in the then German Democratic Republic.
novels
- Red Alert in Tunnel Transterra
- In the Light of Zaurak
- The Secret of the Sun Stones
- Dragoncruiser Ikaros
- ''Copyworld''
stories
- The Animal
- Vacation, Aldebaran style
- The Apple-purée Cruiser
- Planet of the Wind Harps
- ''Three-Eyes, keep watch...''