Vortex

by C. G. Bearne (Editor)

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Oh, how badly scifi ages... (these stories are from 1970 and damn they were simplistic...)
Aleksandr and and Sergei Abromov - The time scale

Soviet Russian gangster setting for a crime thriller complicated by a time travel device...

Andrei Gorbovskii - Futility

A game of drafts is interrupted by a futile search for alien life...

Atur Mirer - The test

A man passes a test to work at a totally automated plant...

Atur Mirer - The old road

A couple are on a strange road which has a minimum speed limit and few other users.The woman is due....Weird.

The silent procession - Boris Smagin

The past becomes real...

He will wake in two hundred years

Andre Gorbovskii

Life extension has a bad side...

The second Martian invasion :a fantastical tale : notes of a sane man

D.Matias and P. Barret

Told in diary form, in a small vilage a retired postman show more worries about his pension. After hearing strange noises at night he complains to the local policeman to no result. Things sort of spiral, driven by the comedy of the situation...A wonderful alternate to Wells... show less

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Abramov, Aleksandr (Contributor)
Abramov, Sergei (Contributor)
Gorbovskii, Andrei (Contributor)
Gromova, Ariadne (Introduction)
Mirer, Artur (Contributor)
Smagin, Boris (Contributor)
Strugatskii, Arkadii (Contributor)
Strugatskii, Boris (Contributor)

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
891.7Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureEast Indo-European and Celtic literaturesRussian and East Slavic languages
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PZ1 .B359Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English

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Reviews
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