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The reading is on Friday, 20.06.2025 in the Cafe Böcklein Ilmenauadmission 19:30, start 20:00.

Tickets, available in advance for 5 EUR (students) and 8 EUR (earners), are available at the Ilmenau City Information Officethe Ilmenau bookstore and Café Böcklein, one euro more at the box office.

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Reading with KAI-HOLGER BRASSEL

Kai-Holger Brassel only became a writer at the age of sixty. He has been reading science fiction since his youth and is interested in astronomy, the natural sciences, systems theory and politics. As a graduate computer scientist, he worked in various industries and at several universities, mainly on the topics of simulation and climate change. His first work “All An!” was awarded the SERAPH as the best independent fantasy title of the year at the Leipzig Book Fair 2025. In this book, Brassel combines the fateful questions of human development into a grandiose outlook for the coming centuries.

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All On!

+++ Awarded the SERAPH 2025 for the best independent title in fantastic literature +++ Nominated for the Krefeld Prize for Fantastic Literature 2025 +++

In the year 2084, the battle against climate change and its catastrophic consequences is as good as lost. Only a few insiders are aware of the danger threatening the Earth from a completely different direction. But when a clever slum dweller, a spirited environmentalist and a visionary systems scientist come together, two minuses can actually add up to a big plus. With strategic skill, a lot of calculation time and the help of a little girl called Celeste, the big turnaround begins. But Celeste has to grow up too, and no utopia is perfect. Tensions between the generations grow and “insiders” are pitted against “outsiders”. Are the machine people, who are no longer just working in the background, part of the solution or part of the problem? In any case, Celeste and her allies do everything they can to counter the hollow promises of past progress with new, promising horizons. A political and inspiring novel about the future for anyone who likes to think bigger (and slower).

“I really enjoyed reading this book, perhaps also because there are not so many points of contact for hope in our seemingly dystopian world at the moment. Utopias can therefore certainly stand for a trend.” – Quote from a jury member in the laudatory speech for SERAPH 2025.

As far as I know, the book All An! cannot be compared with any other book. It shows a world in the future as it could be. What efforts humanity has to make . – Herbi-G on LovelyBooks