Red Star Tales (eBook)

100 Years of Russian Science Fiction

Yvonne Howell (Herausgeber)

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2023
470 Seiten
Russian Life Books (Verlag)
978-1-0879-5024-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;antiseptic"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
• Schlagworte: Russia • Russian • Science Fiction • soviet
• ISBN-10: 1-0879-5024-4 / 1087950244
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0879-5024-2 / 9781087950242