Title: Das Cusanus-Spiel

Title: Das Cusanus-Spiel Title Record # 1015393
Author: Wolfgang Jeschke
Date: 2005-09-22
Type: NOVEL
Language: German

Note: Winner of the Kurd Laßwitz-Preis 2006 (awarded in 2006) for best German Novel published in 2005.

Synopsis: "By 2052, economic and political meltdown threatens the entire planet. A nuclear disaster in Germany has rendered huge swathes of Northern Europe uninhabitable; vital plant species are becoming extinct. ... the Rinascita Project aims to preserve the future by exploiting the past. Time travel, it seems, may be possible ..." --Kirkus Reviews 2013-08-15 (KirkusReviews.com)

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Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
2008^ⓘTranslated by Christina Strane-Fayos	French	Le jeu de Cuse
2013^ⓘ Translated by Ross Benjamin "First novel to appear in English translation from Czech-born German writer/editor/publisher Jeschke since The Last Day of Creation (1984)." --KirkusReviews.com (The review is not starred, but its praise is extraordinary.)	English	The Cusanus Game

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Win	2006 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bester deutschsprachiger Roman
1	2006 DSFP	Bester deutschsprachiger Roman / Best German-language novel
18 (as The Cusanus Game)	2014 Locus	Best SF Novel
Finalists (as The Cusanus Game)	2014 Campbell Memorial	Best Science Fiction Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Das Cusanus-Spiel	2005-09-22	Wolfgang Jeschke	Droemer Knaur	3-426-19700-6	€24.00^?€: Euro	703	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	FinePic
Le jeu de Cuse	2008-02-00	Wolfgang Jeschke	L'Atalante (La Dentelle du Cygne)	978-2-84172-416-1	€24.00^?€: Euro	634	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Genkis
Das Cusanus-Spiel	2008-06-01	Wolfgang Jeschke	Droemer Knaur	978-3-426-63958-0	€12.95^?€: Euro	703	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Der letzte Tag der Schöpfung / Midas / Das Cusanus-Spiel	2013-08-00	Wolfgang Jeschke	Heyne	978-3-453-31476-4	€17.99^?€: Euro	1132	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Nele Schütz^?Nele Schuetz
The Cusanus Game	2013-10-15	Wolfgang Jeschke	Tor	978-0-7653-1908-1	$25.99^?$: US dollar	538	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
The Cusanus Game	2013-10-15	Wolfgang Jeschke	Tor	978-1-4299-8871-1	$12.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Cusanus Game	2014-09-23	Wolfgang Jeschke	Tor	978-0-7653-1909-8	$16.99^?$: US dollar	538	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Franz Rottensteiner (2006) in Quarber Merkur, 103/104
Review [French] by Richard D. Nolane (2008) in Solaris, #167
Review [English] by Gary K. Wolfe (2013) in Locus, #633 October 2013
Review [English] by John Clute (2013) in Strange Horizons, 16 December 2013
Review [English] by Matt Hilliard (2014) in Strange Horizons, 3 February 2014
Review [English] by Norman Spinrad (2014) in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2014