Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
1) Aelita
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Alexei Tolstoy's Aelita was written in the 1920s and imagines the first breakneck human flight to Mars. The action starts in the Soviet Union after the Russian Civil War. The old engineer Los and his companion Gusev, a Red Army soldier and true Bolshevik firebrand, fly to Mars in a rickety, egg-shaped craft. There they encounter an ancient civilisation, which actually originated on the long-lost continent of Atlantis on Earth.
While Los is attracted...
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Uno de los grandes exponentes literarios de la ciencia ficción rusa.
El hiperboloide del ingeniero Garin es una de las obras más reconocidas de la ciencia ficción rusa, y su autor, Alexéi Tolstói, uno de sus máximos representantes. En ella se relata el perverso plan de P. P. Garin, un ingeniero que ambiciona dominar el mundo gracias a uno de sus inventos, un rayo superdestructor capaz de aniquilar cualquier objetivo que se proponga: el "hiperboloide"....
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When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should not. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait.
When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro accidentally ends up at Fedyashev's estate, the young man begs him to bring his dream to reality. "Be...
9) Aelita
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[1999]
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English
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An engineer living in Moscow dreams of the Queen of Mars and builds a spaceship to take him to her.
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2006.
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Collector's ed. ; Standard.
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Russian
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"Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter's ukases prevoke the boyars' indignation. Europe looks in amazement: the Russian tsar begins to work at a Dutch shipyard learning the subtleties of shipbuilding?! But his training is cut short. Peter has to return to Russia in order to brutally...
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