Jacqueline Montemurri was born exactly one month after the first moon landing in the GDR – a highly symbolic moment, as her fascination with space travel and science fiction was instilled in her at an early age. Her mother, herself enthusiastic about fantastic literature and space travel, awakened in her a love for distant worlds and visions of the future.
In 1982, the family moved to Dorsten, where Jacqueline later completed her A-levels. She then studied aerospace engineering in Aachen and graduated with a degree in engineering – a foundation for her enthusiasm for technology and innovation.
Today she lives with her family in Bergisches Land, Germany, loves the vastness and rugged nature of northern Europe and enjoys photographing wildlife and the sky. Professionally, she has been involved in refugee counseling for over ten years.
In her novels and stories, she combines technical innovations with social themes and often alongside primal nature. In the science fiction genre, she finds the ideal place to create visions of the social and technological future of humanity and the future of our planet.
Her texts have been nominated several times for the well-known genre prizes. She was awarded the Kurd-Laßwitz Prize in 2020 for her story “Koloss aus dem Orbit” (“The Colossus from Orbit”).
She is a member of the Science Fiction Club Germany.
I am involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because I am convinced that stories about our future can help us to ask the right questions in the present - and I want to show how technological innovation and social responsibility can work together to open up paths to a future worth living.
An unknown colossus has been orbiting the Earth for years until a team is finally put together to salvage the technology from this supposed spaceship. But nobody is keen on this task, so a crew is found that doesn’t really have anything better to do. They include the drug-addicted journalist Dysti and the decommissioned cyborg Xell.
When the squad discovers the secret of the colossus, Dysti and Xell can only save themselves by escaping into the future. To a future that resembles a paradise. But the idyll is deceptive.
Since Earth became uninhabitable 200 years ago, humanity has settled on Mars. Entering Earth has been strictly prohibited, allowing the planet to regenerate into a green paradise.
However, during an observation flight, Captain Liv Heller discovers a settlement on Earth—survivors of a spaceship that crashed thirty years ago. The law is clear: the settlers must be evacuated from Earth—but they refuse.
Climate change has depopulated northern Europe.
In Jokkmokk, one of the few inhabited enclaves, Stockholm detective Selma Fredriksson is tasked with solving a murder. The Sami policeman Aslak Järvi supports her, unaware that Selma is pursuing completely different goals.
In the barren tundra of Sarek, the two track down a criminal who wants to control people’s actions using nanotechnology. They don’t know that Selma has long been infected with the nanobots until she turns her weapon on Aslak in the deserted expanse.