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Christian Abresch

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in Germany

Website

http://www.xiagan.net

Twitter

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

Member Since

June 2011

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Christian Abresch was fifteen, when he stayed home to write a fantasy book instead of going on vacation with his parents and his brother.
Now he's thirty and wrote two fantasy novels, countless poems and stories and co-published a book with ethnographic studies about the relationship between globalization and regionalization in alimentation. He holds a M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Philosophy and Educational Psychology.
Christian Abresch felt the urge to write fictional short stories after reading Neil Gaiman’s fantastic short story-collection “Smoke and Mirrors“. The result is his ebook debut "Fictional Times - A fabulous anthology of wondrous stories". ...more

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Because the Origami – a response

About a year ago, Ben Folds, Neil Gaiman, Damian Kulash and Amanda Palmer tried to write, compose, play and produce an album with 8 songs in 8 hours. They ended up making 6 songs in 12 hours, which is still quite impressive. You can find their album “8in8 – Nighty Night” here.

Why am I telling you this? Well, they asked their huge fanbase to take these songs and make something, anything with them.

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	Fictional Times - A fabulous anthology of wondrous stories by Christian Abresch (Goodreads Author), Max Cahill (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dicke Kinder - Gesunde Ernährung und Prävention in Kindertagesstätten: Eine empirische Untersuchung zwischen Risikowahrnehmung, Verantwortung und Körperbewusstsein 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

by Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)

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