Von Ariern und Aliens

What German science fiction authors put on paper in the 1920s and early 1930s are not infrequently pre-fascist omnipotence fantasies of galactic proportions. Michael Novian examines literary representations of the “Nordic race” in science fiction novels from the period before the Second World War, especially in works by the authors Edmund Kiss and Friedrich Freksa. The defining perspective of the study owes much to the theory of the “neomyth” by the theologian Linus Hauser. Accordingly, the study provides a practical analysis of neomythic designs of human finitude in the tradition of Hauser and thus a contribution to the study of religiosity in science fiction.