Ronald M. Hahn (born 20 December 1948 in
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...
, Germany) is 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, sp ...
writer, translator and author of reference books pertaining to
speculative literature and film. He was editor of the German edition of
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science-fiction magazine, first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Bouche ...
from 1983 to 1999, and editor of the German sf magazine Nova from 2002 to 2011. He has won the Kurd Lasswitz Award both as translator and writer of short fiction.
Since 2000 he has been a regular contributor to the biweekly novel series ''
Maddrax'', having written more than twenty-five novels for the series so far. Beginning in 2002, he co-published the science-fiction magazine ''NOVA''.
Selected works
* ''(The New Encyclopaedia of Horror Films)''
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Translations
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Dune
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)''
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God Emperor of Dune
''God Emperor of Dune'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Frank Herbert, published in 1981. The fourth in his ''Dune'' series of six novels, it was ranked as the No. 11 hardcover fiction best seller of 1981 by ''Publishers Weekly''. ...
)''
References
German translators
Speculative fiction translators
German science fiction writers
1948 births
Living people
German male writers
Deutscher Fantasy Preis winners
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