Путешествие Алисы (Russian Edition)

Every single character here talks like he, or she is reading a Soviet schoolbook. It doesn't even feel like proper dialogues. Nobody even talks like that! Not a single character here feels real. It's more like we have a bunch of zombies who were programmed to think and say only the "right" stuff. The one that was allowed by Kremlin. In other words, it's just that - a typical Soviet propaganda. The one that makes me puke since I was a kid. I said it before and I'll say it again - doing such things is a crime. When you're giving kids propaganda while masking it as a Sci-Fi story, you're a criminal.

This books is as much Sci-Fi as those fake stories about "Good old man Lenin " in Soviet schoolbooks.

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There was a good chance for this one to become a nice novel, but propaganda just killed it. No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to enjoy something like that. Yes , there are some cute little ideas here. But man , it's impossible to enjoy something with so obvious propaganda in it. It's like drinking tea with poo in it. Yes, the tea itself maybe not that bad. Maybe there's even some milk it. But there's a freakin' poo in it!

And man it stinks. Alexey Khoryushin rated it it was amazing Mar 11, Nadia rated it it was amazing Oct 19, Oleg rated it it was amazing Jan 22, I was trying to think of the best way to relate him to western authors and I think I got it: Heinlein juveniles crossed over with J. Rowling but much better! It's a shame his translations are not more widely available, I think part of the problem is he had no choice but to push ideology every now and then and those bits are a bit odd to read in translation in I think comparisons to Heinlein are very appropriate. Heinlein and Bulychev wrote at the same time, more or less, and the stuff the two of them wrote is clearly ideologically informed.

It's not really programmatic ideology, in the sense of "woo, comrade Stalin! It's more of an artistic choice to depict and valorize certain human ideals and traits.

Their writing shared the concern with human destiny among the stars, the dignity of the individual, the inherent virtue of hard work, and so on. I suspect Heinlein's juveniles would seem as peculiar and ideologically driven were they to be published today. Like Bulychev's Soviet novels, they're the stuff of a different time. It's also why we're very unlikely to see a successful translation of anything Bulychev wrote. It really takes a Soviet or, more generally, Eastern European background to read Bulychev the same way his fans read him. This sort of thing is why I love MetaFilter.

Too bad I have to work tomorrow or I'd be doing nothing but going through this post link by link. Efremov is an interesting case..

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I think what he was trying to do was to say.. It reminds you of how Microsoft takes a technology and then embraces and extends it in order to shut it down or to control it. Protagonists in his big space novels have much more in common with the ideals of classical Greece or yogins he had in one of his non-scifi books than contemporary Soviet ideals, their highest aspiration being the development of scientific mind, art and physical excellence.

There's a certain convergence there with western sci-fi set in the distant future: But it does have quite a bit of the spirit of Soviet technocracy: I agree, when I was re-reading it recently it's shocking how resurfacing of Earth is given without a moment's reflection. Not just the ice caps, the whole temperate zone both the north and the south ones are turned into giant, apparently monotonously unchanging steppes for grazing animals and the mediterranean sea is extended all along the equator with corresponding climate to make a sort of a kiddie pool of the planet.

But I think it's more of a plain pre-ecological 50's techno-stupidity than anything natively Soviet, and the thing about world-wide trains vs. I was going to wholeheartedly agree and say that I can easily think of lots of US scifi written in the s and early s that subscribes to the same ideals, but… I can't. I'm sure the attitudes in Andromeda aren't terribly far from contemporary attitudes in the US in regards to the environment, the inevitable march of progress, and so on, but for whatever reason that kind of fiction doesn't come to mind readily.

I don't think much "frivolous" fiction was being written around that time. I'm not claiming that "man conquers nature in the future" is a uniquely Soviet genre, it's just that techno-utopianism, for whatever reason, found expression in futuristic narrative in the USSR and not elsewhere.

To be honest, my grasp of the history of scifi is pretty tenuous.

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Some of these authors are concerned with technological advances, but not on a global scale. Others are more concerned with systems of governance and other kinds of non-technological world-building. Although a few wrote "hard" or monumental scifi, others wrote human-scale stories about individuals. By comparison, Andromeda isn't even about individual characters and more about collectives of characters.

But maybe the reason I can think of these people, and possibly the reason their names are prominent, is that they rose above the schlock in some way. Maybe that schlock that must've outnumbered them Or maybe we need to look at US authors of the previous generation to find better analogs — A.

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I grew up with my parents and sister reading these books to me as a kid. Guest from the future also known as Visitor from the future is available in its entirety online and, e. It's a great movie and very much worth watching. The first part can be found here. In addition, it has a very catchy theme song. Thanks for this wonderful post! Best post of the year so far, as far as I'm concerned; I can't thank you enough. This books is as much Sci-Fi as those fake stories about "Good old man Lenin " in Soviet schoolbooks.

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There was a good chance for this one to become a nice novel, but propaganda just killed it. No matter how hard I try, I just can't force myself to enjoy something like that. Yes , there are some cute little ideas here. But man , it's impossible to enjoy something with so obvious propaganda in it.

It's like drinking tea with poo in it.

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