Hans (Joachim) Dominik (15 November 1872 – 9 December 1945) was a German

science fiction Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space ...

and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer (electrical and mechanical). Born in

Zwickau Zwickau (; ) is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants,. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ''Zwickauer Mulde''; progression: ), ...

, the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Dominik, a bookseller and editor of periodicals, the young Dominik was educated at the

Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha The Ernestine Gymnasium (Latin name: Ernestinum, used in German language, German) is a humanistic and modern Gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium in Gotha, Germany, the successor of the Illustrious Gymnasium (''Gymnasium illustre''), founded in 1524, w ...

, where his strong subjects were the sciences. He later recalled that he was weaker in dead languages.William B. Fischer, ''The Empire Strikes Out: Kurd Lasswitz, Hans Dominik, and the Development of German Science Fiction'' (Popular Press, 1984)
pp. 179–180
/ref> Dominik was the author of sixteen science fiction novels, published between 1921 and 1940. One unsympathetic biographer, William B. Fischer, has written of him that “In many ways he was shallow-minded and ignorant, yet pompously opinionated about literature, science, and politics. He was also a racist and chauvinist whose attitudes and works easily lent themselves to the aims of National Socialism.” Despite this, in the 1980s Dominik was still one of the small number of highly popular German-born science fiction writers.

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