Michael Szameit

Michael Szameit (1950 – 30 May 2014) was a German science fiction writer.

Born in 1950 in Priessen (now part of Doberlug-Kirchhain) in East Germany, he became an electrician before beginning studies in physics, which he had to abandon for health reasons. Later, he worked as a sound technician, eventually becoming head of a recording studio for radio and television. From 1981 to 1984, he worked in the editorial office of the Neues Leben publishing house.

In 1984, he became a freelance writer. He later lived in Hamburg, working as an editor and journalist for the German magazine Blinker.

His first short story was published in 1976, and his first novel (Red Alert in Tunnel Transterra) in 1982, by the Neues Leben publishing house.

According to a poll held in 1990 by the club magazine Transfer of the SFC Andymon, he was at that point one of the four most popular science fiction writers in the then German Democratic Republic.