Sewer Socialist
16th January 2015, 23:48
Socialist imagination often conjures up fantasic future worlds. I am mostly familiar with North American and Western European authors and cinema, which have many socialist perspectives and themes. I am interested in finding out to what extent science fiction exists in other parts of the world, including Eastern Europe and Asia.
The Soviet Union had some authors I can find mention of with some basic internet research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Soviet_science_fiction_writers
http://rusf.ru/english/
I enjoyed Alexander Bogdanov's Red Star. Someone on here recommended the Strugatsky brothers to me; are any other writers of the USSR more highly recommended? What about other Eastern European writers outside the USSR and its successors?
I am having trouble finding science fiction outside the West and Eastern Europe. Is this mostly a Western genre, which found some appreciation in the USSR as well?
The Soviet Union had some authors I can find mention of with some basic internet research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Soviet_science_fiction_writers
http://rusf.ru/english/
I enjoyed Alexander Bogdanov's Red Star. Someone on here recommended the Strugatsky brothers to me; are any other writers of the USSR more highly recommended? What about other Eastern European writers outside the USSR and its successors?
I am having trouble finding science fiction outside the West and Eastern Europe. Is this mostly a Western genre, which found some appreciation in the USSR as well?