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Looking for good Russian Science Fiction.

Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
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I have a buisness trip coming up next month, and while the company I'm visiting for training will supply me with a list of areas of interest for my downtime, I'm a bit of a home body and hate traveling. I'll most likely hang out in my hotel room, and figured it'd be a good time to get some reading done. I've been playing Metro: Last Light, and finished reading Roadside Picnic recently. I'm in the mood for some more Russian stuff. Are the Metro books still worth it if I've played/am playing the games?

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  • TheBigEasyTheBigEasy Registered User regular
    I don't think it qualifies as Sci-Fi, but try Sergei Lukyanenko's books. I think they have been a huge success in Russia, I know they were a success here in Germany. I haven't read them though, so I can't say how good they really are.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    It's more dystopian fantasy (one of the earliest) than straight sci-fi, but We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is pretty interesting.

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    I've been told by my Russian-speaking friends that there's tons of excellent Russian science fiction (it's basically mainstream there) but it's exceedingly hard to find good translations, so anyone who doesn't know Russian (like me) is out of luck. I'll be interested in what this thread finds.

  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    edited February 2014
    Sergei Lukyanenko's work is some of my absolute favorite, but it falls into the modern horror/fantasy realm more than sci-fi. I still can't recommend them enough. The english translations are perfectly good, minus the poetry.

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    We sounds kind of interesting.

    Searching Sergei Lukyanenko on Amazon only brings up that Night/Day Watch stuff. The movies looked terribly uninteresting. The books are good, though?

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  • DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    The movie was not very good at all, in my opinion, and I was a big fan of the books. I think the movie suffered from both major abbreviation and bizarre cultural translation that just made it something else entirely.

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  • AtaxrxesAtaxrxes Hellnation Cursed EarthRegistered User regular
    Try Stanislaw Lem. He's Polish but I think it might fit what you are looking for.

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  • CaedwyrCaedwyr Registered User regular
    I'd check out the Nightwatch/Daywatch series (make sure to read them in order). They are more of urban fantasy than sci-fi, but they are pretty good and you stand a good chance to enjoy them.

  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    It's old, obviously, but Asimov edited a couple collections of Soviet sci-fi short stories that might be worth checking out.

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  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    In soviet Russia science fiction looks for you.

  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    Take a look at this:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmicheskiy_reys

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Of course, Asimov himself was born in Russia, his books are published in English, though.

  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    In soviet Russia science fiction looks for you.

    In Soviet Russia, good science is fiction.

    Also The Witcher book The Last Witch Wish is a good collection of short stories.

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    Gaslight wrote: »
    It's more dystopian fantasy (one of the earliest) than straight sci-fi, but We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is pretty interesting.

    I've read his novel We years ago, it was quite good.

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  • GaslightGaslight Registered User regular
    Richy wrote: »
    Gaslight wrote: »
    It's more dystopian fantasy (one of the earliest) than straight sci-fi, but We by Yevgeny Zamyatin is pretty interesting.

    I've read his novel We years ago, it was quite good.

    Um, yes, that is the book I mentioned. I agree that it is good. :)

  • XantusXantus Registered User regular
    its not a book but.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

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