Nabou

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 cyborg, 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]

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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.