Author: Alexei Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781589633742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Aelita is a science fiction fantasy in the manner of H.G. Wells, telling the story of a Soviet expedition to Mars with the aim of establishing communism. A Red Army officer foments a rebellion of the native Martians, who are in fact long-ago emigrants from Atlantis.
Aelita
Author: Alexei Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781589633742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Aelita is a science fiction fantasy in the manner of H.G. Wells, telling the story of a Soviet expedition to Mars with the aim of establishing communism. A Red Army officer foments a rebellion of the native Martians, who are in fact long-ago emigrants from Atlantis.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781589633742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Aelita is a science fiction fantasy in the manner of H.G. Wells, telling the story of a Soviet expedition to Mars with the aim of establishing communism. A Red Army officer foments a rebellion of the native Martians, who are in fact long-ago emigrants from Atlantis.
Aelita, Or, The Decline of Mars
Author: graf Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Ardis Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Aelita
Author: graf Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Red Star
Author: Alexander Bogdanov
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025301350X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
“An Earth-man’s journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies.” —Wonders & Marvels A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. “[A] surprisingly moving story.” —The New Yorker “The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov’s] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality.” —Choice “Bogdanov’s novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it.” —Slavic Review
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025301350X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
“An Earth-man’s journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies.” —Wonders & Marvels A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. “[A] surprisingly moving story.” —The New Yorker “The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov’s] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality.” —Choice “Bogdanov’s novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it.” —Slavic Review
Soviet Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Plastic Soul (2nd Ed.)
Author: Rowan Lake Jr.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678137669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
From the Author of Beast of the Bronx... Meet Tobias, Neko, Aelita, and Kisha: four friends with radically different backgrounds, coming together to learn about love and responsibility. Tobias is a bank teller with a black belt in Jujitsu, and an Anime fan. His childhood friend, Neko, is heir to a powerful Tech company, Mikata Tech and loves to wear cat eared beanies. Both Aelita and Kisha are best friends, since high school, and are strong, independent women. While Aelita loves Comics, Kisha loves anything Tech. Read how these four people discover their own paths on their pursuit of happiness.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678137669
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
From the Author of Beast of the Bronx... Meet Tobias, Neko, Aelita, and Kisha: four friends with radically different backgrounds, coming together to learn about love and responsibility. Tobias is a bank teller with a black belt in Jujitsu, and an Anime fan. His childhood friend, Neko, is heir to a powerful Tech company, Mikata Tech and loves to wear cat eared beanies. Both Aelita and Kisha are best friends, since high school, and are strong, independent women. While Aelita loves Comics, Kisha loves anything Tech. Read how these four people discover their own paths on their pursuit of happiness.
Soviet Science Fiction Cinema and the Space Age
Author: Natalija Majsova
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793609322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity’s imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793609322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Once an enthusiastic projection, then a promising and uncanny present, and eventually an assemblage of nostalgic signifiers, in the history of world cinema, this space age has been linked primarily to the genre of science fiction. Here, aspects of the space age such as humanity’s imminent expansion to space, interplanetary travel, contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, and intergalactic governance and economy were both celebrated and critically interrogated as cosmopolitan ideals and nation-branding strategies. This book presents the contemporary relevance of this genre as heritage and legacy, archive and canon, and a nest of forgotten ideals and warnings, as well as nostalgic anchoring points. The author analyzes over 30 Soviet science fiction films, foregrounding their structures of utopia and their evolution over time, in order to trace both their transnational positionalities, transmedial resonance, and impact on post-Soviet Russian films about the space age. Concepts, crucial to the understanding of space futures of the past, such as utopianism, otherness, liminality, and no(w)stalgia are activated to draw out the fictional tenants of the memory of the Soviet space age, and to establish the limits and potentialities of Soviet (exra)terraformative ambitions.
Early Soviet Cinema
Author: David Gillespie
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781903364048
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This text examines the aesthetics of Soviet cinema during its golden age of the 1920s, against a background of cultural ferment and the construction of a new socialist society.
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781903364048
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This text examines the aesthetics of Soviet cinema during its golden age of the 1920s, against a background of cultural ferment and the construction of a new socialist society.
Science-fiction, the Early Years
Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Signal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description