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alicehandle

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I like sci-fi and communism 👍

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Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun, Leah Cypess, Ronald Ferguson, Russell James, Alex Shvartsman, Amdi Silvestri, Allen Stroud, Eleanor Wood, Bao Shu, Zhao Haihong, Chen Zijun, Han Song, Wang Jinkang, He Xi: Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers) (2023)

Mostly a disappointment

Most of these stories are not very good, and I was really disappointed by the amateur translations of the Chinese short stories. Regardless, "Shine" by Chen Zijun, "Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet" by He Xi, and "Minuet of Corpses" by Amdi Silvestri were my top three.

A Dneprov, Mirra Ginsburg, Ilya Varshavsky, Henrik Altov, Gleb Anfilov, Vladimir Grigoriev, Olga Larionova, Herman Maximov, Roman Podolny, Igor Rosokhovatsky, Vladimir Shcherbakov, Michail T. Emcev, Eremeĭ Parnov: The Ultimate Threshold (Hardcover, 1970, Holt, Rinehart and Winston)

A collection of Soviet sci-fi short stories, translated into English.

It's fine

I just didn't really think any of the stories were remarkable! Oh well. It was still a pleasure to see what Soviet sci-fi authors were up to at the time.