3rd Berlin Science Fiction Prize – Final

The code 404 indicates that the content of a website has been removed, a file has been deleted or a URL, the internet address, has been changed. But we encounter ‘system errors’ everywhere. In the entries for the prize, this idea is therefore developed far beyond the internet and linked to various topics in the speculative and socially critical narrative tradition of science fiction. A preliminary jury has selected a total of eight finalists from the submissions. At the final reading evening, the invited authors will present their exciting texts in short readings.

All authors invited to Berlin will be published in an anthology by Radiator Verlag, which will also be available for purchase on the evening. An independent jury consisting of author Zara Zerbe, the owners of the sci-fi bookshop Otherland and author and journalist Philipp Böhm will select the winning text. The prize is endowed with €1,000. The event will be moderated by publishers Nikolas Göllner and Iphigenia Andreou.