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A. K. Ruh

An early, little-known German writer remembered for a single striking work that imagines life in the twenty-third century. That book has earned attention as one of the curious precursors to science fiction in German.

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Guirlanden um Die Urnen der Zukunft Eine interessante, originelle Familiengeschichte aus dem drei und zwanzigsten Jahrhunderte

Guirlanden um Die Urnen der Zukunft Eine interessante, originelle Familiengeschichte aus dem drei und zwanzigsten Jahrhunderte

by A. K. Ruh

About the author

Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from reliable sources available online. Library and catalog records consistently attribute Guirlanden um Die Urnen der Zukunft to A. K. Ruh, but they do not provide a fuller life story.

Project Gutenberg lists the author for that work, and the book is described there as an early nineteenth-century family saga set in the twenty-third century. Because of that futuristic setting, the novel is sometimes mentioned in discussions of very early science-fiction writing in German.

Since clear, well-sourced personal details were not available, it is safest to remember A. K. Ruh as an obscure author whose surviving reputation rests on this unusual and forward-looking novel.