| Nabou | |
| Title Orig: | Nabou |
| Author: | Günther Krupkat |
| Cover Artist: | Peter Nagengast |
| Country: | East Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Genre: | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher: | Das Neue Berlin, Berlin |
| Release Date: | 1968 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
Nabou is a 1968 science fiction novel by German author Günther Krupkat. Written as a sequel to his 1963 novel Als die Götter starben, Nabou narrates an expedition into the interior of the Earth.[1] A member of a research team investigating Earth's crust is revealed to be a biorobot, or "Biomat," left by an advanced spacefaring people called the Mejuans. The encounter between the humans and the alien representative is a comparative class encounter between advanced socialist aliens and human societies in a "lower stage" of development without open class conflict.[2] A 1989 survey ranks it as the 13th most popular East German science fiction novel.[3]