Hans (Joachim) Dominik (15 November 1872 – 9 December 1945) was a German science fiction and non-fiction author, science journalist and engineer (electrical and mechanical).

Born in Zwickau, the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Dominik, a bookseller and editor of periodicals, the young Dominik was educated at the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha, where his strong subjects were the sciences.

[1] Dominik was the author of sixteen science fiction novels, published between 1921 and 1940.

[1] One unsympathetic biographer, William B. Fischer, has written of him that “In many ways he was shallow-minded and ignorant, yet pompously opinionated about literature, science, and politics.

He was also a racist and chauvinist whose attitudes and works easily lent themselves to the aims of National Socialism.”[1] Despite this, in the 1980s Dominik was still one of the small number of highly popular German-born science fiction writers.