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Wolfram Weisse presents a science fiction adventure with “Schafkälte”.
Kottgeisering – According to observations by Wolfram Weisse, it rains nine out of ten times on June 6th.
The Kottgeiseringer knows this so well because it is his birthday - and he therefore very rarely has a nice birthday (weather-wise).
Even by going on vacation to Croatia last year, he couldn't escape the bad weather.
The visit to a stalactite cave, which literally fell into the water, was at least the trigger for his first novel called “Schafkälte”.
Film-worthy sequences were buzzing in the family's heads at the time and during the car ride they swayed from an annual imposition to a cosmic sign of fate, from which the author, referred to in the book as Ansgar Weiß, can neither escape in the tranquil Stillachtal nor in Eastern Patagonia.
“My daughter immediately wrote down the interim results of the brainstorming session on four wheels that began immediately,” says Wolfram Weisse.
Before returning home, the beginning and end of the science fiction story, which was originally intended as a film, was virtually finished.
But as with any good film, there must first be an exciting book.
The history
Because the weather on Weisse's birthday is not only rainy but also mostly cold, the title - unusual for a sci-fi novel and already used for other books - was quickly found: Sheep's Cold.
The actual story came about pretty quickly.
“My wife released me from family duties so that I could write, research and edit for 16 hours a day,” reports Weisse.
After four months the work was completed.
Ansgar's fantastic adventure starts off quite grounded and then takes off quite quickly with unforeseen twists and turns.
The indigenous Hopi Indian people, quantum mechanics and speculation about an extraplanetary civilization play a role.
“But the future doesn’t just lie in space, which is why we shouldn’t treat the Earth as shitty as we do now,” says Weisse, and uses this wake-up call in an exciting way in the novel.
The 370-page novel “Schafkälte” was recently published as a self-publishing project on Amazon and is also available in bookstores as an e-book, paperback and hardcover.
According to Wolfram Weisse, it is not yet clear whether there will be a second part.
“Ideas for this are already popping up in my head,” says the novelist meaningfully.
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