Escapades. Fantasies and Fictions

by Erik Simon and Angela & Karlheinz Steinmüller
Berlin: Memoranda 2024

Escapades are wild caprices, escapes from routines, getaways into the unknown. We have written a sufficient number of stories, essays as well – is there still something else? Yes, it is: reviews of non-existent books, laudatory speeches that sound like an invective, speculations that defy all futurology, interviews with nobodies, diary entries from a skewed future, considerations about us barbarians, manuals, exchanges of letters and words … In an escapade, you romp around. What a wonderful feeling!

The book contains forty pieces in four departments:

  • Visions: Futurological-fictional sketches
  • Of People and Books: Hommages to writers and books
  • Fictions: Fictious reviews, interviews, tellings
  • Phantasmes: Exercises in SF

The volume is completed by substantial comments and publication histories.
Dimitrij Makarow has provided the cover image and four illustrations.

The book is available at Memoranda

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From the table of content

  • Lemulation
  • Jerek erk Sigmon: Metalysis
  • Big Brother Award 2040
  • Nomen est nomen est nomen
  • Sexplosion
  • The Last Barbie
  • The Voice of Socrates
  • The Caveman as Explorer
  • Designer Religions
  • Simon Zwystein: Transcendence in 69 Copies
  • Aren’t We All a Little Bit Doolittle?
  • For SF to Babylon
  • Where is Inomerski?
  • You Must Read Slim Books!