{"product_id":"red-star-tales-yvonne-howell-9781880100387","title":"Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 worlds...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yvonne Howell, Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 188010038X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781880100387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Russian Information Services, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.05d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yvonne Howell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048545251583,"sku":"9781880100387","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c07c031-37b6-4c83-8e5b-9ad390dc76d6.jpg?v=1684996392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/red-star-tales-yvonne-howell-9781880100387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}