Aiki Mira

Aiki Mira
OccupationScience fiction writer
SubjectScience fiction
Notable awardsKurd Laßwitz Award

Aiki Mira is a German science fiction author.

Their short story Utopie27 won the Kurd Laßwitz Award and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis in 2022.[1][2]

Biography

Aiki Mira lives in Hamburg[3] and is listed as a Hamburg author in the authors' gallery of the Hamburg City Library.[4] After studying media communication, Aiki Mira researched youth culture and computer games.[5] Aiki Mira is the first non-binary science fiction author to be listed as an author on the homepage of the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize.[1] In addition to novels, Aiki Mira publishes essays and short stories for : Tor Online, Phantastisch!, Exodus, Queer*Welten, Future Fiction Magazine and c't.

Their first short story, "Das Universum ohne Eisbärin" (lit. 'The Universe Without a Polar Bear') was published in c't in 2021.[6] It was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz Award[1] and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis. Two other short stories, "Vorsicht synthetisches Leben" (lit. 'Beware Synthetic Life') and "Utopie27" were also nominated for the same awards,[2] something that nobody had achieved so far.[7]

Their short story Utopie27 won the Kurd-Laßwitz Award and the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis in 2022.[1][2]

Together with Uli Bendick and Mario Franke, Aiki Mira published the anthology Am Anfang war das Bild in 2021, which was nominated for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2022 and came second in the special prize category.[8]

Aiki Mira's prize-winning story Utopie27 also appeared in the anthology. In June 2022, Aiki Mira published the science fiction novel Titans Kinder. Eine Space-Utopie published by p.machinery.[9]

This was followed in December 2022 by the cyberpunk novel Neongrau: Game over in Neurosubstrat published by Polarise.[10][11] The novel won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2023.[12] Their novel Neurobiest won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2024 as well[13]

Since 2023, Aiki Mira has been co-hosting the SWR podcast Das war morgen together with political scientist Isabella Hermann.[14]

Queer science fiction

Aiki Mira considers to be part of the queer science fiction genre and also publishes essays on the subject, for example on Tor Online[15] and in Queer*Welten magazine.[16][17]

Aiki Mira verortet sich in der Queer*Science Fiction und veröffentlicht zum Thema auch Essays, zum Beispiel auf Tor Online[18] und im Queer*Welten Magazin.[19]

Some of their stories have been listed as queer science fiction.[20] Theresa Hannig, another German science fiction author, thinks that Aiki Mira is part of the authors of science fiction who deal with social science fiction rather than pure technical SF.[21]

Personal life

They are non-binary and use they/them or no pronouns.[22]

Works

Articles

  • Mira, Aiki (2024-02-02). "Schreiben als Beruf: Der schreibende Körper". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2024-07-22.

Science fiction novels

  • Titans Kinder. Eine Space-Utopie, 2022
  • Mira, Aiki (2023). Neongrau: Game Over im Neurosubstrat (1. Auflage ed.). Heidelberg: Polarise. ISBN 978-3-949345-28-9.
  • Neurobiest

Science fiction short stories

  • Das Universum ohne Eisbärin, 2021
  • Vorsicht synthetisches Leben, 2021
  • Utopie27, 2021

Anthology

  • Am Anfang war das Bild, 2021

References

  1. ^ a b c d "KLP 2022 Beste deutsche sprachige SF Erzählungen mit erstaugabe von 2021". www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de (in German). 2022. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "2022 Deutscher Science-Fiction-Preis (DSFP)". www.dsfp.de (in German). 2022. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  3. ^ "Tor Online". TOR Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  4. ^ Mira, Aiki | Bücherhallen Hamburg Archived 2022-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 17 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Aiki Mira". aikimira.webnode.page (in German). 2024-06-10. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  6. ^ Mira, Aiki (2021-02-12). "Das Universum ohne Eisbärin". c't (in German). Vol. 2021, no. 5. pp. 182–186. ISSN 0724-8679. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  7. ^ "News, Cons & Events | Science Fiction Club Deutschland e.V." sfcd.eu (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  8. ^ "KLP 2022 Sonderpreis einmalig". www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de (in German). 2022.
  9. ^ Mira, Aiki (2022). Titans Kinder: eine Space-Utopie. AndroSF (in German). Winnert: p.machinery Michael Haitel. ISBN 978-3-95765-294-2.
  10. ^ Mira, Aiki (2023). Neongrau: Game Over im Neurosubstrat (in German) (1. Auflage ed.). Heidelberg: Polarise. ISBN 978-3-949345-28-9.
  11. ^ Moll, Carsten. "Genderfluide Gamer*innen im Hamburg des 22. Jahrhunderts". queer.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  12. ^ Boersenblatt. ""Neongrau" zum besten Science Fiction-Roman gewählt". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  13. ^ "Kurd-Laßwitz-Preisträger 2024 bekanntgegeben". www.boersenblatt.net (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  14. ^ "Das war morgen" (in German). Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  15. ^ Mira, Aiki (17 August 2022). "Was ist Queer*SF? Mehr als nur Science Fiction!". TOR Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  16. ^ Aiki, Mira (2021-07-21). "Wovon träumen Androiden? Von Queer*Scifi! in Queer*Welten | Ankündigung Ausgabe 6". Queer*Welten (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  17. ^ nreichel. "Poetik der Queerness". Demokratischer Salon (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  18. ^ Was ist Queer*SF? Mehr als nur Science Fiction! | TOR Online, retrieved 17 January 2023.
  19. ^ Queer*Welten | Ankündigung Ausgabe 6, retrieved 17 January 2023.
  20. ^ Reactor (2024-06-04). "The Stories in Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity Showcase a Spectrum of Queer Experiences". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  21. ^ NDR. "Science-Fiction-Autorin Theresa Hannig: "Wir brauchen Utopien!"". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  22. ^ "Aiki-Mira". www.aikimira.de. Retrieved 2025-12-07.
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