The Burden of Equals

7 hrs. 3 min.

Language Russian

Author Vyacheslav Nazarov

Narrator eugnik

Description

The poet Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Nazarov (1935–1977) first published a science-fiction story in the magazine “Yenisey” in 1968. In 1972, a book of his science-fiction novellas, “Eternal Sails,” was published in Krasnoyarsk and received high praise from both readers and critics.

Nazarov’s works were published in Moscow in the magazine “Iskatel” (1977), in the collection of Siberian science-fiction writers “Green Train” (1976), and in the series “Library of Soviet Science Fiction” the book “Green Doors of the Earth” was released (Molodaya Gvardiya, 1978).

The new science-fiction novellas included in this book are relevant, sharp, and dynamic. For V. Nazarov, both poet and science-fiction writer, it is characteristic to address a whole range of problems and ideas. The writer is concerned with the relationship between science and society; he reflects on the place of the scientist and on the measure of responsibility of his rights and duties; he also considers whether human beings, in general, are ready to meet the Unknown in the depths of space or on their own land (“The Burden of Equals”).