Aelita (Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction) (English and Russian Edition)

By Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy and Alexei (Author) Tolstoi

Book Overview

Alexei Tolstoy's Aelita was written in the 1920s and imagines the first breakneck human flight to Mars. The action starts in the Soviet Union after the Russian Civil War. The old engineer Los and his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0026192004
• ISBN13: 9780026192002
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sci-fi Russian style

This is the son of the famous Leo Tolstoy (War & Peace, Anna Karenina etc.) making his own bid for fame with what is claimed to be the first Russian sci-fi novel. This makes it a bit of a collector's item in itself, though the story is good, well written and illustrated, though the style may be a little alien (forgive the pun) to those not familiar with Russian prose.