Vortex New Soviet Science Fiction

Author: C. G. Bearne

ISBN: 0330027050

Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, Collections & Anthologies,

Published year: 1971

Binding: Paperback

Description: "This collection of seven stories is representative of the writings of a group of young SF enthusiasts in the USSR... There seem to be two basic problems which these writers are exploring: man in society, and man and the passing of time. Time and its interpretation indeed form the basis of stories by the brothers Abramov, Boris Smagin, and Andrei Gorbovskii. Mirer, of whose works two excepts from a cycle of stories entitled 'Artificial Jam' are included here, is much more concerned with the position of man, weak and irrational in a machine-ridden world. the brothers Strugatskii are concerned essentially with people in a society which has us under some kind of mysterious threat. They explore the actions of their characters against a background which is fictional yet has tantalizingly pervasive echoes of a kind of reality."--Pg. [7].

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