Michael Marrak

Michael Marrak (born 5 November 1965 in Weikersheim, Baden-Württemberg) is a German writer and illustrator. His work includes science fiction, horror, fantasy, grotesque fiction and speculative fiction. He has received several German-language speculative fiction awards, including the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and the SERAPH.

From 1993 to 1996 Marrak edited the speculative fiction story and art magazine Zimmerit, in which he also published his own fiction and illustrations. His later novel Morphogenesis was a substantially revised version of Die Stadt der Klage. His 2017 novel Der Kanon mechanischer Seelen won both the 2018 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best novel and the 2018 SERAPH award for best book.

Marrak lives and works as a freelance writer and illustrator in Schöningen am Elm, Lower Saxony.

Awards

1997: European Science Fiction Award, Best Artist 1999: Deutscher Science Fiction Preis for Die Stille nach dem Ton, best German-language science fiction story 2000: Deutscher Science Fiction Preis for Wiedergänger, best German-language science fiction story 2001: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Lord Gamma, best German-language science fiction novel 2003: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Imagon, best German-language science fiction novel 2005: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the cover illustration of phantastisch! no. 15 2014: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Coen Sloterdykes diametral levitierendes Chronoversum, best German-language science fiction story 2018: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Der Kanon mechanischer Seelen, best German-language science fiction novel 2018: SERAPH award for Der Kanon mechanischer Seelen, best novel 2019: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the cover illustration of Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Zeit 2020: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the cover illustration of Der Garten des Uroboros

Selected works

Novels

Die Stadt der Klage. edition mono/monochrom, 1997. Lord Gamma. Shayol / Alien Contact, 2000. Imagon. Festa, 2002. Morphogenesis. Bastei Lübbe, 2005. Das Aion: Kinder der Sonne. Ravensburger Buchverlag, 2008. Black Prophecy – Gambit. Panini Verlag, 2011. Epitaph. Bastei Lübbe, 2013. Ammonit. Bastei Lübbe, 2013. Der Garten des Uroboros. Amrûn Verlag, 2019.

Kanon cycle

Der Kanon mechanischer Seelen. Amrûn Verlag, 2017. Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Zeit. Amrûn Verlag, 2018. Anima ex Machina. edition mono/monochrom, Vienna, 2020; edited by Johannes Grenzfurthner and Günther Friesinger. Cutter ante portas. Amrûn Verlag, 2022.

Short story collections and anthologies

Monafyhr. Edition Zimmerit, 1994. Grabwelt. Edition Zimmerit, 1996. Die Stille nach dem Ton. Alien Contact / Edition Avalon, 1998. Der agnostische Saal. Edited with Malte S. Sembten, 1998. Der agnostische Saal 2. Edited with Malte S. Sembten, 1999. Armageddon mon amour: Fünf Visionen vom Ende. Edited with Karsten Kruschel, 2012.

Theatre

Am Ende der Beißzeit. With Gerhard Junker, 1997. Der Weg der Engel. With Agus Chuadar, edition mono/monochrom, 1998.

Computer games

Black Prophecy, story development and game design; released 2011. Black Prophecy – Gambit, tie-in novel, 2011.

Illustrations

Artwork for the documentary film Traceroute, 2016.