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Russia, 1946. With the Nazis recently defeated, Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away -- and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it...

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Main Author: Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Gollancz, 2009.
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Human-alien encounters > Fiction.
Russia > Fiction.
Science fiction.
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Summary:Russia, 1946. With the Nazis recently defeated, Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away -- and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together -- Stalin orders the writers to compose a massively detailed and highly believable story about an alien race poised to invade the earth. The little group of writers gets down to the task and spends months working until new orders come from Moscow to immediately halt the project. The scientists obey and live their lives until, in the aftermath of Chernobyl, the survivors gather again, because something strange has happened: the story they invented in 1946 is starting to come true.--From Amazon.com.
Physical Description:326 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780575083561 (hbk.)
0575083565 (hbk.)
0575083573 (pbk.)
9780575083578 (pbk.) :
Author Notes:Adam Roberts is commonly described as one of the UK's most important writers of SF. He is the author of numerous novels and literary parodies. He is Professor of 19th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, London University and has written a number of critical works on both SF and 19th Century poetry. He is a contributor to the SF ENCYCLOPEDIA.

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