Brandon Q. Morris

Brandon Q. Morris, pseudonym of Matthias Matting, born 26 August 1966 in Luckenwalde (East Germany), is a German writer of hard science-fiction.

Biography
After completing his physics studies at the TU Dresden, Matting became an editor at a specialist publisher for computer magazines in Munich. In the following years he worked among other things. as editor for Computer Bild, Wirtschaftswoche, Focus and Heise-Verlag. In addition, he regularly published specialist books on various technical topics as well as several fiction novels. Matting also operated web portals for self-publishers and offered seminars for authors. From February 2015 to December 2017 he was chairman of the board of the German Self Publisher Association, which he co-founded. Under the pseudonym, he has also been a science fiction writer since 2017.

Book features
All of Morris' books have an afterword educational chapter about the subject matter (such as a celestial object like Enceladus or concept like black holes) that drives the plot of the book.

Awards

 * In 2011 Matthias Matting was one of the first winners of the derneuebuchpreis.de (dnbp), endowed with a total of 20,000 euros, in the non-fiction category for Travel to Fukushima.
 * Skoutz Award 2019 in the Science Fiction category together with Cliff Allister for the novel Helium-3.
 * Fantastik-Literaturpreis Seraph 2020 - nomination longlist “Best Independent Title” for the novel Das Triton-Desaster.

Publications

 * Ice Moon series
 * Enceladus Mission (2017)
 * Titan Probe (2018)
 * Io Encounter (2018)
 * Return to Enceladus (2018)
 * Jupiter Catastrophe (2018)
 * Solar System series
 * Hole (2018)
 * Silent Sun (2018)
 * Rift (2019)
 * Triton Disaster (2020)
 * Clouds of Venus (2020)
 * Dark Spring (2020)
 * The Beacon (2021)
 * Pluto Debacle (2023)
 * The Uranus Fiasco (2023)
 * Disturbance series
 * The Disturbance (2022)
 * The Disturbance 2: The Answer (2022)
 * The Disturbance 3: The Truth (2023)
 * Proxima Trilogy
 * Proxima Rising (2019)
 * Proxima Dying (2019)
 * Proxima Dreaming (2019)
 * Proxima Logfiles
 * Marchenko's Children (2021)
 * Into the Darkness (2021)
 * Into the Light (2021)
 * Runaway (2021)
 * Evolution (2021)
 * Olom (2022)
 * Earthward (2022)


 * Big Rip Trilogy
 * The Death of the Universe (2020)
 * Ghost Kingdom (2020)
 * Rebirth (2020)
 * Amphirite series
 * Amphirite 1: The Black Planet (2020)
 * Amphirite 2 (2021)
 * Amphirite 3 (2021)
 * Andromeda series
 * Andromeda: The Encounter (2022)
 * Andromeda: The Sojourn (2022)
 * Andromeda: The Arrival (2022)
 * The Timeless Artifact series
 * Möbius – The Timeless Artifact (2022)
 * Möbius 2 – The Timeless Artifact (2022)
 * Möbius 3 – The Timeless Artifact (2022)
 * Mars Nation series
 * Mars Nation Part 1 (2019)
 * Mars Nation Part 2 (2019)
 * Mars Nation Part 3 (2019)
 * Helium 3 series, co-written by Cliff Allister
 * Helium-3: Fight for the Future (2021)
 * Helium-3: Death from the Past (2021)
 * Impact series
 * Impact: Titan (2020)
 * Impact: Earth (2020)
 * Standalone novels
 * The Wall: Eternal Day (2021) (a companion book, The Wall: Eternal Night (2021) is written by Joshua Calvert)
 * Lost Moon: Lunar Eclipse (2022) (a companion book, Lost Moon: Earth Storms (2022) is written by Tim L. Rey)