Andromeda's nebula. Star ships. The heart of the snake. Efremov I.A.

The next volume of the collected works of the classic of Soviet science fiction included works by the 1940-1950s, dedicated to the theme of mankind and deep cosmos, which brought it world glory: the novel "Andromeda Nebumariness", the story "Star Ships" and "The Heart of the Snake". Three generations of Soviet writers and readers have been brought up on these works, they influenced the minds of tens of millions of people far from only in the USSR, without them the “world of half a day” of the Strugatsky and the whole work of the authors of the “fourth wave”, which included in the literature, already 1980 E years. The future described in these books is hardly possible in the real world, but its virtual existence in art was largely higher than rude reality.

The book is equipped with new articles about the writer's work, it uses as classical illustrations and so and new.

For the first time, G. Yaremchuk, color illustrations of G. Yaremchuk, are reproduced for the novel “Andromeda Nebula”, kindly provided by the publisher of the widow of the writer T.I. Efremova.