Aiki Mira

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Aiki Mira
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OccupationScience fiction writer
SubjectScience fiction
Notable awards Kurd Laßwitz Award

Aiki Mira is a German, non-binary [1] person who publishes science fiction literature under this pseudonym.

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Biography

Aiki Mira lives in Hamburg [2] and is listed as a Hamburg author in the authors' gallery of the Hamburg City Library. [3] After studying media communication, Aiki Mira researched youth culture and computer games. [4] Aiki Mira is the first non-binary science fiction author to be listed as an author on the homepage of the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize. [5] In addition to novels, Aiki Mira publishes essays and short stories for : Tor Online, Phantastisch!, Exodus, Queer*Welten, Future Fiction Magazine and c't.

Das Universum ohne Eisbärin is Aiki Miras first published short story. It was published in c't in 2021, [6] and was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz Award [5] and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis. Two other short stories, Vorsicht synthetisches Leben and Utopie27 were also nominated for the same awards, [7] something that nobody had achieved so far. [8]

Their short story Utopie27 won the Kurd-Laßwitz Award and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis in 2022. [5] [7]

Together with Uli Bendick and Mario Franke, Aiki Mira published the anthology Am Anfang war das Bild in 2021, which was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2022 and came second in the special prize category. [9]

Aiki Mira's prize-winning story Utopie27 also appeared in the anthology. In June 2022, Aiki Mira published the science fiction novel Titans Kinder. Eine Space-Utopie published by p.machinery. [10]

This was followed in December 2022 by the cyberpunk novel Neongrau: Game over in Neurosubstrat published by Polarise. [11] [12] The novel won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2023. [13] Their novel Neurobiest won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2024 as well [14]

Since 2023, Aiki Mira has been co-hosting the SWR podcast Das war morgen together with political scientist Isabella Hermann. [15]

Queer science fiction

Aiki Mira considers to be part of the queer science fiction genre and also publishes essays on the subject, for example on Tor Online [16] and in Queer*Welten magazine. [17] [18]

Aiki Mira verortet sich in der Queer*Science Fiction und veröffentlicht zum Thema auch Essays, zum Beispiel auf Tor Online [19] und im Queer*Welten Magazin. [20]

Some of their stories have been listed as queer science fiction. [21] Theresa Hannig, another German science fiction author, thinks that Aiki Mira is part of the authors of science fiction who deal with social science fiction rather than pure technical SF. [22]

Works

Articles

Science fiction novels

Science fiction short stories

Anthology

References

  1. ↑ Buschek, Oliver; Noack, Noe (2024-06-24). "Sci-Fi-Autor*in Aiki Mira: "Kurt Cobain habe ich nicht als klassisch maskulin, sondern als genderfluid gelesen"". Bayerischer Rundfunk (in German).
  2. ↑ "Tor Online". TOR Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  3. ↑ Mira, Aiki | Bücherhallen Hamburg, retrieved 17 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Aiki Mira". aikimira.webnode.page (in German). 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  5. 1 2 3 "KLP 2022 Beste deutsche sprachige SF Erzählungen mit erstaugabe von 2021". www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de (in German). 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  6. ↑ Mira, Aiki (2021-02-12). "Das Universum ohne Eisbärin". c't (in German). Vol. 2021, no. 5. pp. 182–186. ISSN   0724-8679 . Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  7. 1 2 "2022 Deutscher Science-Fiction-Preis (DSFP)". www.dsfp.de (in German). 2022. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  8. ↑ "News, Cons & Events | Science Fiction Club Deutschland e.V." sfcd.eu (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  9. ↑ "KLP 2022 Sonderpreis einmalig". www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de (in German). 2022.
  10. ↑ Mira, Aiki (2022). Titans Kinder: eine Space-Utopie. AndroSF (in German). Winnert: p.machinery Michael Haitel. ISBN   978-3-95765-294-2.
  11. ↑ Mira, Aiki (2023). Neongrau: Game Over im Neurosubstrat (in German) (1. Auflage ed.). Heidelberg: Polarise. ISBN   978-3-949345-28-9.
  12. ↑ Moll, Carsten. "Genderfluide Gamer*innen im Hamburg des 22. Jahrhunderts". queer.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  13. ↑ Boersenblatt. ""Neongrau" zum besten Science Fiction-Roman gewählt". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  14. ↑ "Kurd-Laßwitz-Preisträger 2024 bekanntgegeben". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  15. ↑ "Das war morgen" (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  16. ↑ Mira, Aiki (17 August 2022). "Was ist Queer*SF? Mehr als nur Science Fiction!". TOR Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  17. ↑ Aiki, Mira (2021-07-21). "Wovon träumen Androiden? Von Queer*Scifi! in Queer*Welten | Ankündigung Ausgabe 6". Queer*Welten (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  18. ↑ nreichel. "Poetik der Queerness". Demokratischer Salon (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  19. ↑ Was ist Queer*SF? Mehr als nur Science Fiction! | TOR Online, retrieved 17 January 2023.
  20. ↑ Queer*Welten | Ankündigung Ausgabe 6, retrieved 17 January 2023.
  21. ↑ Reactor (2024-06-04). "The Stories in Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity Showcase a Spectrum of Queer Experiences". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  22. ↑ NDR. "Science-Fiction-Autorin Theresa Hannig: "Wir brauchen Utopien!"". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
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