Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction Contributor(s): Howell, Yvonne (Editor), Strugatsky, Arkady (Author), Strugatsky, Boris (Author) |
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ISBN: 188010038X ISBN-13: 9781880100387 Publisher: Russian Information Services, Inc. OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - Eastern (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2015953223 |
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.25" W x 8" (1.17 lbs) 470 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |