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While Aiki Mira’s science fiction novels offer revealing insights into future societies, in Ursula Poznanski’s book series Erebos she describes man’s retreat into a dark computer world. Both authors’ books deal with the power of technology as well as how hope is not lost.

In Aiki Mira’s most recent novel, Denial of Service, the city of Frankfurt is completely privatized, managed and controlled by an artificial neural network. Fully automated, supersmart … and fatal. Until a coder and a bot begin to investigate.

In Ursula Poznanski’s Erebos books the boundaries are blurred between a computer game and reality. The main protagonist not only falls prey to the game, but in real life becomes the stooge of revenge-AI … this is countered by sticking together and the endeavour to get one’s life under control …

***BIOGRAPHIES***

Aiki Mira
Lives in Hamburg and publishes science fiction, near future and new weird. Aiki Mira has won numerous awards, recently the Kurd Laßwitz Prize 2025. Recently published: Denial of Service, 2025.

“What’s coming our way? Aiki Mira, one of the most interesting voices of contemporary German-language science fiction, plays with serious answers to this existential question.”

Dietmar Darth, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Ursula Poznanski
b. 1968. Writer. She is one of the most successful German-language authors for young readers. She became known for the book series Erebos. Recently published: The Signal, 2026.

“In the third volume of Erebos, Ursula Poznanski again puts her finger in the wounds of a digital society in which everything can become public and supposed secrets make you easily susceptible to blackmail.”

Kim Kindermann, Deutschlandfunk