'Pilot Pirx' (more short stories, of growing complexity, in a space travel setting).

Good point to start: 'Sterntagebücher' (easy short stories). (No need to bother with the Polish originals). They are available in German in masterful translations. Why thinking only of German authors? Why not well-translated foreign ones? - If you like science fiction of the really intelligent type: read the books by Stanislav Lem. And if you happen to be Bulgarian: there is also a good Bulgarian translation available I had some contribution to.) Perhaps this can be found on second-hand bookselling sites. (Of which there is by the way a congenial English translation in a double-language edition once issued by the Münchner Rück insurance company. The best book, in my perception, is 'Komm süßer Tod'. All novels are criminal stories in an Austrian environment. Language is easy-going casual (but grammatically correct). Wolf Haas (as first recommended by Everything Flows) is indeed a good idea. That's by the way a book very few people in Germany actually know because everybody was so in love with Winnetou and the 'Wild West'. I recommend 'Das Buschgespenst' - a novel describing the harsh living conditions of the working class in a 1860s Saxonian village oppressed by corrupt industrialists, embedded in a detective story. It is not really contemporary, but it is a cornerstone of German culture. Have you tried Karl May? That's what (some decades ago) practically every German speaking child and adolescent read. 291) is unnumbered.Without knowing more about you, your command of German, and your interests, it is practically impossible to give right advice, because every arrow will be sent into the dark. The table of contents is printed on p.OCLC / WorldCat states the wrong year of 1979.which contains books to be published - the first of these is dated to October of 1978. The month of publication is implicitly stated in the ad list of 'Phantastische Bibliothek in den suhrkamp taschenbüchern' after p.Tausend 1978') print run thus: 15,000 copies. Stated third printing ('Dritte Auflage, 28.-42.All rights of the German edition are assigned for the year 1971 to the publishing house Insel.The copyright is assigned for the year 1969 to the author, though there was a translation of the 1971 piece of shortfiction 'Alfred Testa: 'Nowa Kosmogonia'' added to this German edition.First German mass-market paperback edition.

Nacht und Schimmel by Stanisław Lem