Synopsis
Science Fiction a la Russe:
Hoity-Toity by Alexander Belayev...Spontaneous Reflex by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A Visitor from Outer Space by Alexander Kazantsev. The Martian by Alexander Kazantsev. Infra Draconis by Georgy Gurevich Professor. Bern's Awakening by Vladimir Savchenko.
Soviet Science Fiction offers a rare opportunity to read first-rate science fiction from a country that until only recently condemned most writings of this genre. Although the scope of these inventive and suspenseful stories is universal, the flavor is distinctly Russian. The unpredictable protagonists range from a temperamental professor who deep-freezes himself and comes back to life 18,000 years later, to a moody Martian who wants to go home to Mars, to a dancing, vodka-drinking, human-brained elephant named Hoity-Toity. The stories they set in motion, in the finest tradition of good science fiction, make the fantastic seem astonishingly possible and the possible utterly fantastic. And they offer a unique glimpse of the Russian view of life in the future - a life not far off, but very far out.
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Seller: Mom's Resale and Books, River Hills, WI, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 5th Printing. 1968 5th Printing Paperback Edition. Small damp stain to upper left corner of back cover. Pages unmarked. Seller Inventory # PB13-3-29-25-09