Karsten Kruschel (born 1959 in Havelberg) is a German science fiction writer, essayist and critic, who lives near Leipzig.
His best known works are the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis winning novels Vilm and Galdäa.
He received his doctorate in German Philology in 1991 by writing a dissertation about the science fiction literature in the GDR.
"Karsten Kruschel refers to the ambivalence in ambiguous utopie in terms of 'the presence of a variety of possible interpretations'.
[1] His first professional publication was a short story, published in 1979 in German magazine neues leben.