Brandon Q. Morris
Brandon Q. Morris, pseudonym of Matthias Matting, born August 26, 1966, in Luckenwalde (East Germany), is a German writer of hard science-fiction.
Biography
After completing his physics studies at the TU Dresden, Matting became an editor at a specialist publisher for computer magazines in Munich. In the following years he worked among other things. as editor for Computer Bild, Wirtschaftswoche, Focus and Heise-Verlag. In addition, he regularly published specialist books on various technical topics as well as several fiction novels. Matting also operated web portals for self-publishers and offered seminars for authors. From February 2015 to December 2017 he was chairman of the board of the German Self Publisher Association, which he co-founded.[1] Under the pseudonym, he has also been a science fiction writer since 2017.[2]
Book features
All of Morris' books have an afterword educational chapter about the subject matter (such as a celestial object like Enceladus or concept like black holes) that drives the plot of the book.
Awards
- In 2011 Matthias Matting was one of the first winners of the derneuebuchpreis.de (dnbp), endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, in the non-fiction category for Travel to Fukushima.[3][4]
- Skoutz Award 2019 in the Science Fiction category together with Cliff Allister for the novel Helium-3.[5]
- Fantastik-Literaturpreis Seraph 2020 - nomination longlist “Best Independent Title” for the novel Das Triton-Desaster.[6]
Publications
- Ice Moon series
- Enceladus Mission (2017)
- Titan Probe (2018)
- Io Encounter (2018)
- Return to Enceladus (2018)
- Jupiter Catastrophe (2018)
- Solar System series
- Hole (2018)
- Silent Sun (2018)
- Rift (2019)
- Triton Disaster
- Clouds of Venus
- Dark Spring
- The Beacon
- The Disturbance
- Pluto Debacle (2022)
- Proxima Trilogy
- Proxima Rising
- Proxima Dying
- Proxima Dreaming
- Proxima Logfiles
- Marchenko's Children
- Into the Darkness
- Into the Light
- Runaway
- Evolution
- Olom
- Earthward
- Big Rip Trilogy
- The Death of the Universe
- Ghost Kingdom
- Rebirth
- Amphirite series
- Amphirite 1: The Black Planet
- Amphirite 2
- Amphirite 3
- Andromeda series
- Andromeda: The Encounter
- Andromeda: The Sojourn
- Andromeda: The Arrival
- The Timeless Artifact series
- Möbius – The Timeless Artifact
- Möbius 2
- Mars Nation series
- Mars Nation Part 1
- Mars Nation Part 2
- Mars Nation Part 3
- Helium 3 series, co-written by Cliff Allister
- Helium-3: Fight for the Future
- Helium-3: Death from the Past
- Impact series
- Impact: Titan
- Impact: Earth
- Standalone novels
- The Wall: Eternal Day (a companion book, The Wall: Eternal Night is written by Joshua Calvert)
References
- ^ "Vorstandswahl 2017". Buchreport. 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2017-12-17.
- ^ Fritz Greiler (2017-03-16). "Passauer Wochenblatt: Bestseller-Autor aus Passau auf der Buchmesse Leipzig". Retrieved 2017-10-29.
- ^ Die Preisträger sind ausgewählt, Börsenblatt, 6. Oktober 2011
- ^ Buchpreis für FOCUS-Redakteur Matthias Matting: Ausgezeichnetes Format-Experiment, Focus, 6. Oktober 2011
- ^ "Skoutz-Award 2019 - Hier sind die Preisträger". 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Literaturpreis für Phantastik in drei Kategorien".
