Bernhard Kempen (International) assertion Bernhard Kempen i(A121733 works by)
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2 2 y separately published work icon The 22 Murders of Madison May Max Barry , ( trans. Bernhard Kempen with title Die 22 Tode Der Madison May ) Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 2023 22543441 2021 single work novel science fiction fantasy

'From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes a mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality.

''If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.'

'In Queens, New York, 22-year-old real estate agent Madison May is showing a house. The buyer, a man she's never met, is friendly, engaging . . . and claims to be her soulmate from a parallel life. She's in danger, he tells her. He's come to save her.

'Later that day, newspaper journalist Felicity Staples is assigned to report on Madison May's murder. Discontent with her own life, Felicity finds herself drawn into a shocking conspiracy involving a powerful group who have harnessed the ability to slip between lives - to move between one version of reality to another.

'On the run, turned into an imposter in her own life, Felicity is forced to seek the truth behind Madison May, the woman who is murdered over and over, in different ways, wherever she goes. For only by saving Madison May can Felicity reassemble the broken pieces of herself.' (Publication summary)

 

3 3 y separately published work icon Providence Max Barry , ( trans. Bernhard Kempen )expression Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 2021 18579091 2020 single work novel science fiction

'A dazzling, inventive, and thought-provoking new novel from the ingenious author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon.

'Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery.

'In this near future, our world is at war with another, and humanity is haunted by its one catastrophic loss--a nightmarish engagement that left a handful of survivors drifting home through space, wracked with PTSD. Public support for the war plummeted, and the military-industrial complex set its sights on a new goal: zero-casualty warfare, made possible by gleaming new ships called Providences, powered by AI.

'But when the latest-launched Providence suffers a surprising attack and contact with home is severed, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson must confront the truth of the war they're fighting, the ship that brought them there, and the cosmos beyond.' (Publication summary) 

4 6 y separately published work icon The Genius Wars Catherine Jinks , ( trans. Jakob Schmidt et. al. )agent with title Teuflischer Held ) Munich : Knaur-Taschenbuch , 2010 Z1645647 2009 single work novel young adult thriller 'In a thrilling conclusion to the Genius trilogy, Cadel must think like a criminal mastermind. After living a precarious life of lies and mistrust, Cadel has finally found his niche. But Prosper English resurfaces, determined to destroy everything Cadel has struggled to build...' (Libraries Australia record)
3 7 y separately published work icon Genius Squad Catherine Jinks , ( trans. Bernhard Kempen et. al. )agent with title Teuflisches Team ) Leipzig : Knaur-Taschenbuch , 2009 Z1473146 2008 single work novel young adult

'Sometimes, when it comes to fighting evil, one genius just isn't enough.

'Cadel Piggott's been having a hard time since he chose to be good rather than evil. He doesn't know where he was born. He doesn't know who his father is. And he's under constant threat from Prosper English - the criminal mastermind he helped to put in gaol.

'Will Genius Squad be the answer to all Cadel's prayers? Or is he right to question their motives? Deciding what's good and bad is more difficult than Cadel could ever have imagined ...' (Publisher's blurb)

7 8 y separately published work icon Teranesia Greg Egan , ( trans. Bernhard Kempen with title Teranesia ) Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 2001 Z855220 1999 single work novel science fiction

'Discover the mystery of the island of Teranesia, where peculiar biological evolution has created a world both beautiful and deadly. On the small uninhabited island of Teranesia, Prabir and his younger sister Madhusree live with their biologist parents, who are there to study the strange signs of evolutionary mutation in the island's butterfly population. But their peaceful time on Teranesia is cut short when a civil war breaks out in Indonesia, forcing Prabir and his family to flee. Twenty years pass, and Madhusree is now studying biology. She wishes to follow in the path of her parents, hoping to pick up where their research had been halted. Prabir, still feeling a great responsibility over his sister, highly advises her not to go back to Teranesia. But the mutations that happened during their time on the island overpower Madhusree's curiosity, and she goes against her brother's wishes. Struck with overwhelming feelings of responsibility, Prabir finds it as his duty to follow his sister, and travels back to Teranesia for the first time in twenty years. Not knowing what to expect, Prabir discovers the island to be more enchanting, and dangerous, than he could have ever imagined' (Publication summary)

7 9 y separately published work icon Diaspora Greg Egan , ( trans. Bernhard Kempen with title Diaspora : Roman ) Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 2000 Z55515 1997 single work novel science fiction 'Set in the thirtieth century, Egan's novel has sentient software on centre stage, with humans as bit players. Egan has always placed ideas above characterisation, and readers of this novel almost need a degree in physics and information technology to follow it. Nonetheless, perseverance will be rewarded, as Egan explores spatial dimensions while trying to define what is humanity, especially when humanity is not involved' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

9 12 y separately published work icon Distress Greg Egan , ( trans. Bernhard Kempen with title Qual: Roman ) Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 1999 Z381122 1995 single work novel science fiction

Distress is 'set in 2055 when the centre of Sydney is virtually deserted, as most work and entertainment is conducted at home via broadband optical fibre networks. Egan's main character, science journalist Andrew Worth, is sent to 'Stateless', a bioengineered Pacific coral island to interview a South African Nobel Prize winner who is intending to reveal a major breakthrough in human comprehension techniques. Various competing interests, however, descend on the island and Worth becomes an unwitting agent of change. Biotechnology implants, quantum physics, voluntary autism and mutant cholera are just some of the ingredients mixed into the mystery of who wishes to kill the Nobel Laureate, and for what purpose' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

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