Yvonne Howell (EDT) Red Star Tales

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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 worldsThe 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 Kickstarter-funded 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.