Time Travelling into the Present: Science Fiction Literature in the GDR

'''Förster, Werner. "Time Travelling into the Present: Science Fiction Literature in the GDR [German Democratic Republic]."' JPC'' 18.3 (Winter 1984): 71-81.

See 77 f. for plot summaries and analyses of two works significant for the study of mechanized environments: Karlheinz Steinmüller, "Der Traum vom Großen Roten Fleck" ("The Dream of the Big Red Spot"), in Der letze Tag auf Venus; and Johanna and Günther Braun, Conviva Ludibundus (both books cited as Berlin, 1979). "Dream" posits a central computer regulating an "'atomized society'" of radical individualism; Ludibundus pits a "'homo ludens'" (Playing Man) protagonist against an antagonist WF describes as "a 'human automaton'" (77-78).