Nabou

Nabou

First edition
Author	Günther Krupkat
Original title	Nabou
Cover artist	Peter Nagengast
Language	German
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Das Neue Berlin, Berlin
Publication date	1968
Publication place	East Germany
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)

Nabou is a 1968 science fiction novel by German author Günther Krupkat. Written as a sequel to his 1963 novel Als die Götter starben, Nabou narrates an expedition into the interior of the Earth.[1] A member of a research team investigating Earth's crust is revealed to be a biorobot, or "Biomat," left by an advanced spacefaring people called the Mejuans. The encounter between the humans and the alien representative is a comparative class encounter between advanced socialist aliens and human societies in a "lower stage" of development without open class conflict.[2] A 1989 survey ranks it as the 13th most popular East German science fiction novel.[3]

References

1. Fritzsche, Sonja (2006). Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. Oxford and New York: Lang. p. 114.
2. Fritzsche, Sonja (2006). Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. Oxford and New York: Lang. p. 114.
3. Steinmüller, Angela and Karlheinz (1995). Vorgriff auf das Lichte Morgen. Passau: Erster Deutscher Fantasy Club. p. 173.

Bibliography

• Fritzsche, Sonja. Science Fiction Literature in East Germany. Oxford; New York: Lang, 2006.
• Neumann, Hans-Peter. Die grosse illustrierte Bibliographie der Science Fiction in der DDR. Berlin: Shayol, 2002.
• Steinmüller, Angela and Karlheinz. Vorgriff auf das Lichte Morgen. Passau: Erster Deutscher Fantasy Club, 1995.

External links

• Nabou title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database