Just time today to reblog a guest post I’ve done for the very excellent Science Fiction Ruminations blog on sci fi short stories by Soviet women authors. Do go and check out Joachim’s blog – it’s fascinating!
The third guest post in my series SF Short Stories by Women Writers pre-1969 (original announcement and list of earlier posts) comes via Kaggsy (you can follow her on twitter), the proprietor extraordinaire of Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings. A connoisseur of Russian literature (among other things) and a long-time commentator on the site, I got wind of her interest in Soviet SF reading her review of Kirill Bulychev’s collection Half a Life(1975, trans. 1977) and her acquisition posts of various Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow editions — Alexei Tolstoi’s Aelita (1923) and Destination: Amaltheia (1963), ed. Richard Dixon (image below).
Her post focuses on stories by three Soviet Women SF authors — Olga Larionova, Marietta Chudakova, and Valentina Zhuravlyova. One story is from the cutoff date of 1969.
Enjoy!
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(Valentina Zhuravlyova’s “The Astronaut” can be found in Destination: Amaltheia, ed. Richard Dixon (1963), Cover: Nikolai Grishin)
Review of “The Useless Planet” (1967) by Olga Larionova, “The…
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Dec 11, 2016 @ 18:55:41
Your post reminds me it might be time to check in again on my favorite current Russian writer, Ludmila Ulitskaya.
Dec 11, 2016 @ 19:26:48
You can never read enough Russians in my view! 🙂
Dec 11, 2016 @ 19:09:58
Brilliant article (as always) – great new to me blog too. Thanks for highlighting, I’m off to explore.
Dec 11, 2016 @ 19:26:30
Thanks Annabel! I think you’ll enjoy Joachim’s blog!
Dec 12, 2016 @ 08:48:11
How lovely to have a guest post on such a good match for you blogwise!
Dec 12, 2016 @ 11:13:16
It was kind of ideal for me…. 🙂
Dec 13, 2016 @ 21:19:04
You’re lucky to find these Russian Sci-Fi stories! I never come across pre-1969 female Sci-Fi authors in the used books stores, much less non-English language ones. Well, sometimes there will be a Kate Wilhelm or a LeGuin, but that’s about all I see. I’ll have to look out for these and others.
Dec 13, 2016 @ 21:31:21
They did take a bit of finding – most of my Soviet Sci Fi collections have come from online sellers, though my BFF *did* come up trumps with a couple from a bookselling friend of hers!