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Aelita Prize
The Aelita Award is an award for science fiction writers founded by the Union of Writers of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Writers Union) and " Uralsky Sledopyt Magazine" in 1981. It was named after the classic Russian science fiction novel ''Aelita.'' The prize is awarded during the Aelita, a Soviet/Russian science fiction fandom convention. In 1989, the Start Award was created as a runner-up award to the Aelita. A number of other awards are or have been given in conjunction with the Aëlita ceremony. These include: The Ivan Yefremov Memorial Award, named in honor of science fiction writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov (1908-1972) and recognizes great contributions to the development of Soviet science fiction studies. The Vitaly Bugrov Memorial Award is given in honor of science fiction writer, editor and critic Vitaly Bugrov (1938-1994) for great contributions to the writing of story collections and nonfiction works. He was also instrumental in the founding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sever Gansovsky
Sever Feliksovich Gansovsky (russian: Се́вер Фе́ликсович Гансо́вский; 15 December 1918 – 6 September 1990) was a Soviet science fiction author. He mostly wrote short stories. Biography Sever Gansovsky was born in the family of Ella-Johanna May, a singer from Latvia. During one of the tours in Poland she met Felix Gansovsky and married him. In 1918 they had two children, Sever and Veronika. Felix disappeared soon after their birth, and Ella moved to Leningrad. During Stalinist repressions in the 1930s she was arrested and shot in prison. Sever Gansovsky worked as a cabin boy and sailor in Murmansk, and later as an electrician in Leningrad. He graduated from the evening school. In 1940 he entered the Leningrad State University, but in 1941 volunteered to join the army for the Great Patriotic War. He served as a marine sniper and the scout. Gansovsky was seriously wounded in 1942, but survived, although his relatives were initially told that he had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gromov
Alexander Nikolayevich Gromov () is a Russian science fiction writer, who began writing in 1986 and was first published in the early 1990s. His work is influenced by that of the Strugatsky brothers, and he has stated a preference for the social science fiction genre. He writes primarily in his native Russian language. Gromov lives in Moscow, and is an amateur astronomer and former electronic engineer. Gromov's works ''Soft Landing'' ''Soft Landing'' (original Russian title: ''Myagkaya posadka'') was published in 1995. The novel is set in Moscow, approximately at the end of the 21st century. The novel centers on the life of an ordinary man fighting for survival while new subspecies of ''Homo sapiens'' wage war against normal humans. ''Soft Landing'' received a Belyaev Award and Interpresscon Award in 1996. ''Year of the Lemming'' ''Year of the Lemming'' (original Russian title: ''God Lemminga''), was published in 1997. It is a prequel to ''Soft Landing'' and is set in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasili Golovachov
Vasili Vasilievich Golovachov (russian: Василий Васильевич Головачёв; born June 21, 1948, Russia) is a modern Russian science fiction writer, known in Russian-speaking countries for writing both hard science fiction and sci-fi/fantasy mixes. The works combines space science fiction, esotericism, Slavic neopaganism and pseudohistory Pseudohistory is a form of pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often by employing methods resembling those used in scholarly historical research. The related term cryptohistory is applied to pseudohist ....Shnirelman, Viktor. The Aryan Myth in the Contemporary World. Moscow, 1015. P. 153-157. (RussianШнирельман В.А. Арийский миф в современном мире. М., 2015. С. 153-157. List of works * ''The Beast's Gospel'' ("Евангелие от зверя") series ** ''The Beast's Lair'' ("Логово зверя") ** ''The Exodus of the Beast'' ("Ис ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Ivanovych Savchenko
Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko ( uk, Володимир Іванович Савченко; russian: Владимир Иванович Савченко) was a Soviet Ukrainian science fiction writer and engineer. Born on February 15, 1933, in Poltava, he studied at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and was an electronics engineer. Savchenko, who wrote in Russian , published his first short stories in the late 1950s, and his first novel (''Black Stars'') in 1960. His works were often self-published. Savchenko also authored several texts about physics and engineering, including the article "Sixteen New Formulas of Physics and Cosmology," which he considered to be his most important scientific text. As of today, Savchenko's works have been published in 29 countries and have been translated into many of the world's languages. He was found dead on January 19, 2005, in Kyiv. He was 71 years old. Biography Savchenko was a graduate of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. He worked a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marina And Sergey Dyachenko
Spouses Maryna Yuryivna Dyachenko (born 23 January 1968) and Serhiy Serhiyovych Dyachenko (14 April 1945 – 5 May 2022) (Marina Yuryevna Dyachenko (Shirshova) and Sergey Sergeyevich Dyachenko) (rus. Марина и Сергей Дяченко, ukr. Марина та Сергій Дяченки) are co-authors of fantasy literature from Ukraine writing in Russian language, Russian. Three of their novels have been translated into English. Personal life The Dyachenkos are from Kyiv, Ukraine. For four years, they lived in Russia, then moved to California, United States in 2013. Serhiy Dyachenko died on 5 May 2022 in the United States. Work Background Serhiy Dyachenko graduated from Kyiv Medical Institute and worked as a psychiatrist. Later, Serhiy Dyachenko working as a writer and screenwriter, together with director Anatoliy Borsyuk and cinematographer Oleksandr Frolov, was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in 1987 for "The Star of Vavilov" (Russian la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadim Shefner
Vadim Sergeevich Shefner (russian: Вади́м Серге́евич Ше́фнер); (December 30, 1914 (January 12, 1915) - January 5, 2002) was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who started publishing poetry in 1936. His first poetry collection was published in 1940. He turned to humorous and philosophical science fiction in the early 1960s, but continued publishing non-genre fiction and poetry. English translation of on of his poems: There are words - like wounds, words - like a court, With them, people do not surrender and do not take prisoners. You can kill with a word, you can save with a word. With a word, you can take armies to follow you. With a word, you can sell, and betray, and buy. A word can be transformed into a smashing lead. Works *"The Friar of Chikola" and "A Provincial's Wings", tr. Helen Saltz Jacobson, in ''New Soviet Science Fiction'', New York, Macmillan, 1979, *''The Unman'', New York, Collier Books, 1981, , 233p. Includes: **''The Unman'' (''Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Lukyanenko
Sergei Vasilyevich Lukyanenko (russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Лукья́ненко, ; born 11 April 1968) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with the moral dilemma of keeping one's humanity while being strong. Some of his works have been adapted into film productions, for which he wrote the screenplays. Biography Lukyanenko was born in Karatau, Kazakhstan, then a part of the Soviet Union. After graduating from school, he moved to Alma-Ata, and enrolled at the Alma-Ata State Medical Institute in 1986 majoring in psychotherapy. He had started writing as a student, and in 1992 had just started making money from it. During this time he became an active member in Russian fandom, visiting conventions and attending seminars all around the Soviet Union. In 1996 he moved to Moscow where he currently resides. Name transliteration Lukyanenko's name is romanized as ''Sergey Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kir Bulychov
Kir Bulychev (russian: Кир Булычёв [Kir Bulychyov]; 18 October 1934 – 5 September 2003) is a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), a USSR, Soviet Russian science fiction writer, critic, translator and historian. His Masterpiece, magnum opus is a children's science fiction series ''Alisa Selezneva'', although most of his books are adult-oriented. His books were adapted for film, TV and animation over 20 times – more than any other Russian science fiction author – and Bulychev himself wrote scripts for early adaptations. Biography Mozheiko (Mojeiko) received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981. From 1963 he worked in the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was a specialist in the medieval history of Burma, and wrote a biography of Aung San. He first used the pseudonym Kir Bulychev in 1965, for his very first science fiction story, "A Girl Nothing Can Happen To". It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennadiy Prashkevich
Gennadiy Martovich Prashkevich (russian: Генна́дий Ма́ртович Прашке́вич; born May 16, 1941, in Pirovskoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai) is a Russian science fiction writer, critic, editor, translator and International PEN member. He won the Aelita Prize (1994) and Garin-Mikhaylovsky Prize (1999). He is also a poet, translator and essayist. Some of his works (''Razorvanoye chudo'' (''The Torn Miracle'', 1978), ''Pyat kostrov rombom'' (''Five Bonfires In A Rhomb'', 1989), ''Shpion protiv alkhimikov'' (''A Spy Versus Alchemists'', 1994), ''Shkatulka rytsarya'' (''The Knight's Casket'', 1996) became popular. Prashkevich graduated from Tomsk University and participated in various geological and paleontological expeditions to Ural, Kuzbass, Yakutia, Far East and Kamchatka. As a science fiction writer Prashkevich debuted with the story ''Ostrov Tumanov'' (''The Island of Mists'') in 1957, having close ties with Ivan Yefremov by that time. His verse books include ''Posv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
