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| − | Another field in which our chums from the Volga contest leadership. [[Russian]] [[stf]] tends to be clankety-clunk and rabbit-from-the-hat, and ends on a strong upbeat note (or else, one gathers): [[Yefremov]]'s "Lake of the Mountain Spirits" fires off a nice series of Mystic Experiences and other aberrations, which the hero at length shows to have been caused (in the best 1930-[[Gernsback]] style) by mercury vapor from deposits in the surrounding mountains. He is promptly overjoyed to have found such a treasure trove for the Soviet industrial system. | + | Another field in which our chums from the Volga contest leadership. [[Russian]] [[stf]] tends to be clankety-clunk and rabbit-from-the-hat, and ends on a strong upbeat note (or else, one gathers): [[Ivan Yefremov|Yefremov]]'s "Lake of the Mountain Spirits" fires off a nice series of Mystic Experiences and other aberrations, which the hero at length shows to have been caused (in the best 1930-[[Gernsback]] style) by mercury vapor from deposits in the surrounding mountains. He is promptly overjoyed to have found such a treasure trove for the Soviet industrial system. |
| − | Equally, attacks on US [[stf]] are in order; notable was one in which [[Literarturnaya Gazeta of Moskva]], a serious literary magazine, whopped us (27 March '48) to this effect: "To support the propaganda of the mighty imperialist war machine [that's our armed forces they're describing] 'scientific fiction' of America shamelessly threatens with atomic scarecrows" declared Bolkhovtinov and Zakharchenko, citing [[R. F. Jones]]' ''Renaissance'' as "a monstrously open | + | Equally, attacks on US [[stf]] are in order; notable was one in which [[Literarturnaya Gazeta of Moskva]], a serious literary magazine, whopped us (27 March '48) to this effect: "To support the propaganda of the mighty imperialist war machine [that's our armed forces they're describing] 'scientific fiction' of America shamelessly threatens with atomic scarecrows" declared Bolkhovtinov and Zakharchenko, citing [[R. F. Jones]]' ''Renaissance'' as "a monstrously open [[fascist]]ly-tending story". (It involved a machine which sent children "with any superhuman quality" to a world parallelling ours.) This, they opined, was "[[fantasy]]" and the product of "lurid imagining." "The authors of all these arch-reactionary, clamorous-jaunty pages... cannot hide their fear of the future which encompasses the [[capitalist]] world", said the Gazeta. |
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Latest revision as of 01:18, 25 July 2021
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| Another field in which our chums from the Volga contest leadership. Russian stf tends to be clankety-clunk and rabbit-from-the-hat, and ends on a strong upbeat note (or else, one gathers): Yefremov's "Lake of the Mountain Spirits" fires off a nice series of Mystic Experiences and other aberrations, which the hero at length shows to have been caused (in the best 1930-Gernsback style) by mercury vapor from deposits in the surrounding mountains. He is promptly overjoyed to have found such a treasure trove for the Soviet industrial system.
Equally, attacks on US stf are in order; notable was one in which Literarturnaya Gazeta of Moskva, a serious literary magazine, whopped us (27 March '48) to this effect: "To support the propaganda of the mighty imperialist war machine [that's our armed forces they're describing] 'scientific fiction' of America shamelessly threatens with atomic scarecrows" declared Bolkhovtinov and Zakharchenko, citing R. F. Jones' Renaissance as "a monstrously open fascistly-tending story". (It involved a machine which sent children "with any superhuman quality" to a world parallelling ours.) This, they opined, was "fantasy" and the product of "lurid imagining." "The authors of all these arch-reactionary, clamorous-jaunty pages... cannot hide their fear of the future which encompasses the capitalist world", said the Gazeta. |
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