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Red Star Tales: 100 Years of Russian Science Fiction
| Author: | Yvonne Howell |
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Original English publication, 2023 |
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Synopsis
For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world's largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collection aims to change that, bringing a large body of influential works into the English orbit...
A scientist keeps a severed head alive, and the head lives to tell the tale... An explorer experiences life on the moon, in a story written six decades before the first moon landing... Electrical appliances respond to human anxieties and threaten to crash the electrical grid... Archaeologists discover strange powers emanating from a Central Asian excavation site... A teleporting experiment goes awry, leaving a subject to cope with a bizarre sensory swap... A boy discovers the explosive truth of his father's "antiseptic" work, stamping out dissent on distant worlds...
The last 100 years in Russia have seen an astonishing diversity and depth of literary works in the science fiction genre, by authors with a dizzying array of styles and subject matter.
This volume brings together 18 such works, translated into English for the first time, spanning from path-breaking, pre-revolutionary works of the 1890s, through the difficult Stalinist era, to post-Soviet stories published in the 1980s and 1990s.
Contents:
- 7 - Introduction (Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction) - essay by Yvonne Howell
- 21 - Authors & Translators (Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction) - essay by uncredited
- 31 - Karazin: Meteorologist or Meteorurge? - essay by Nikolai F. Fyodorov
- 38 - On the Moon - novella by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- 78 - Rebellion of the Machines - [Machine Uprising] - short story by Valery Bryusov
- 86 - One Evening in 2217 - short story by Nikolai Fyodorov
- 105 - Mutiny of the Machines - [Machine Uprising] - short story by Valery Bryusov
- 113 - Professor Dowell's Head - novelette by Alexander Belyaev
- 158 - The Lunar Bomb - short fiction by Andrei Platonov
- 181 - Rays of Life (excerpt) - short fiction by Yuri Dolgushin
- 196 - The Nur-i-Desht Observatory - novelette by Ivan Yefremov
- 224 - Explosion - short fiction by Alexander Kazantsev
- 253 - The Spontaneous Reflex - novelette by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
- 275 - Soda-Sun - short fiction by Mikhail Ancharov
- 332 - The Exam - short story by Sergei Drugal
- 352 - Mixed Up - short fiction by Vladimir Savchenko
- 399 - Jubilee-200 - short fiction by Kir Bulychev
- 416 - Those Burdened by Evil (excerpt) - short fiction by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
- 424 - Doorinda (excerpt) - short fiction by Daliya Truskinovskaya
- 441 - My Dad's an Antibiotic - novelette by Sergei Lukyanenko
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