This collection by a Moscow science-fiction writer, Leonid Kaganov, includes virtually all of his small-form works written between 2001 and 2004. Each story in the collection has a brief preface by the author—an uncommon honor in our science fiction: only well-known authors receive it. Here you’ll find both famous and prizewinning stories by Leonid Kaganov (“Homka,” “The Predator’s Epic,” and “Mamma Sonnim”) and “ride-along” stories (“The Seventh Aquarius,” “Bredroll,” and “A Letter to Paule”). Still, every reader will find something new and interesting.
Contents:
- Homka
- Love of Johnny Kim
- Butter
- My Cosmonautics
- A Family Problem
- So, Hominoids
- The Seventh Aquarius
- The Predator’s Epic
- Make a Wish
- Standard Configuration
- Flying into the Void
- Dollarcar
- Children’s Home
- Bredroll. A Tale for Aldebaran Serpentlings of Younger Age (2–3 molts)
- Error of the Year 2000
- Execution
- Mamma Sonnim
- The First Purge
- Conversations with Dad
- A Letter to Paule
- To Settlement
- The Day of Academic Pokhelya
- Thirty-Five
- Flashmob Terror
- Appendix