Monday, March 9, 2009

Path into the Unknown - The Best Soviet SF

This is the best of the Soviet (former name for the Russian country) science fiction, and it was written in 1966. The book is a collection of short stories, and includes authors like brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, G. Gor, Ilya Varsahvsky, S. Gansovsky, and so on. It is a good bedtime reading, the short stories are excellent, and I managed to read one story per day. You will find out about future problems with our kids emotionally attached to robots, living spores in cosmic space that when inside a spaceship hatch into undestroyable 8-leg flies, 300-year long cosmic journeys to distant stars, and many more. It is seven stories from seven authors. Each story is actually a short philosophical essay based on a fantasy or sci-fi tale, and it makes a reader ponder what if.

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