Hans Joachim Alpers

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Hans Joachim Alpers (born July 14, 1943 in Bremerhaven) is a German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy. As an editor he co-founded the German-language Science Fiction Times and as a critic he has been a contributor to Science Fiction Studies.^[1] As a writer he has used several pseudonyms including Jürgen Andreas, Thorn Forrester, Daniel Herbst, Gregory Kern, Mischa Morrison, P.T. Vieton, and Jörn de Vries. He won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for the novels Das zerrissene Land and Die graue Eminenz. He also co-wrote a six-volume series of Young-Adult SF with Ronald M. Hahn that translates as "The Children's Spaceship."^[2] He currently lives in Hamburg.