Utopia and Terra
Ernsting started his science fiction career in 1954 as translator for the new science fiction novel collection Utopia Großband of the publishing house Erich Pabel Verlag, Rastatt. In 1955 he got to be editor of this collection and started the readers' column Meteoriten; he also got to be editor of the new science fiction magazine Utopia Sonderband (later renamed to Utopia Magazin).
In 1958 he changed to the publishing house Moewig Verlag, Munich and its series for science fiction novels Terra and its magazine Galaxis. He still wrote science fiction novels and stories using the pseudonyms Clark Darlton and occasionally Fred McPatterson.
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Famous quotes containing the words utopia and/or terra:
“I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next.... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)
“His firm stanzas hang like hives in hell
Or what hell was, since now both heaven and hell
Are one, and here, O terra infidel.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)