Also set in a Near Future Earth wracked by Climate Change, Das Cusanus-Spiel oder Ein abendländisches Kaleidoskop ( 2005 trans Ross Benjamin as The Cusanus Game 2013) postulates in great detail a form of Time Travel which might enable trained operatives to return to the fifteenth century in order to bring back genetically undamaged flora to restore fertility to the ravaged twenty-first century world more intrusive uses of the procedure, including an attempt to persuade Nikolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) to begin to create a different future through the establishment of a scientific academy, prove helpless against the self-correcting temporal braid comprised of the many Alternate Worlds that make up the Multiverse. Midas oder Die Auferstehung des Fleisches ( 1987 trans Sally Schiller as Midas 1990) is set on a Near-Future Earth which has suffered severe Ecological damage a primitive Matter Duplication technique has been discovered, but the copies of humans thus produced are crude and cannot live longer than a few months. Jeschke's first novel was Der Letzte Tag der Schöpfung ( 1981 trans Gertrud Mander as The Last Day of Creation 1982 UK), in which an American group uses Time Travel to acquire Middle Eastern oil, evading the problems posed by modern-day local governments Time Paradoxes – as they do often in his work – ensue. (This anthology series is not listed below, nor are any other anthologies published by Jeschke in German only.) From 1986 for Heyne Verlag, he edited Das Science-Fiction Jahr, an extremely large anthology of fiction and nonfiction after his partial retirement in 2003 until the series was transferred to another house in 2014, his co-editor was Sascha Mamczak (1970- ). He also edited more than 100 anthologies, from 1970 on, many containing material translated from the English. In 1973 he took over Heyne Verlag's sf publishing line, a job he retained until his semi-retirement in 2002 and in which he was responsible for introducing many important works to the German market. He began to publish sf with "Die Anderen" in 1959, but first became strongly involved with the genre in 1969 when, while working as co-editor of Kinders Literaturlexikon he edited as a freelancer the Science Fiction fur Kenner series for Lichtenberg Verlag. (1936-2015) Czech-born editor and author, in Germany after 1945 winner of the 1987 Harrison Award for achievements in international sf.
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