Selected Bibliography and Suggested Readings
Aldris, Brian. Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.
Amis Kingsley. New Maps of Hell: A Survey of SF. NY: Arno Press, 1975.
Armstrong, John. The Paradise Myth. Oxford, 1969.
Baehr, Stephen L. “Utopian Literature (Sumarokov through Odoevsky c.1750–c.1850) in Victor Terras, ed. Handbook of Russian Literature. New Haven: Yale U.P., 1985, pp. 497–8.
———. The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford U.P., 1991.
Bailey, James. Pilgrims through Space and Time: Trends and Patterns in Scientific and Utopian Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press [1972, c1947].
Barooshian, Vahan D. Russian Cubo-Futurism 1910–1930. The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
Baxter, John. Science Fiction in the Cinema. New York: 1970.
Berneri, Marie Louise. Journey Through Utopia. London: 1950.
Bethea, David M. The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 1989.
Bowlt, John E. ed. Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902–34. NY: Viking, 1976.
Brandis, Evgenij. Sovetskij nauchno-fantasticheskij roman. L.: 1959.
Bretnor, Reginald, ed. SF Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium. Baltimore: Penguin, 1975.
Britikov, A. F. Russkij sovetskij nauchno-fanasticheskih roman. L: Nauka, 970.
Brown, Edward J., ed. Major Soviet Writers: Essays in Criticism. NY: Oxford U.P., 1973.
———. Russian Literature Since the Revolution. Revised edition. Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1982.
Buchner, Hermann. Programiertes Glück. Socialkritik in der utopischen Sowjetliterature. Vienna: Europa Verlag, 1970.
Carter, Lin. Imaginary Worlds: The Art of Fantasy. NY: Ace Books, 1971.
Carter, Paul A., The Creation of Tomorrow: 50 Years of Magazine Science Fiction. NY: Columbia U.P., 1977.
Clarenson, Thomas D. Many Futures, Many Worlds: Theme and Form in Science Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State U.P., 1977.
———. Science Fiction Criticism: an Annotated Checklist. Kent, Ohio: Kent State U.P., 1972.
———. SF: The Other Side of Realism; Essays on Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction. Bowling Green, Kent, Ohio: Kent State U.P., 1971.
———. Voices of the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers, vols 1&2. Bowling Green, Kent, Ohio: Kent State U.P., c1976–.
Davenport, Basil. The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism. Chicago: Advent, 2959.
de Camp, L. Sprague and Catherine Crook de Camp. Science Fiction Handbook. Philadelphia: Owlswick Press, 2975.
Delic-Masing, Irene. “Peredonov’s Little Tear and Why Is it Shed” in Fyodor Sologub, The Petty Demon. Ardis, 1983.
Edwards, T. R. N. Three Russian Writers and the Irrational, Zamyatin, Pil’niak and Bulgakov. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1982.
Elliott, Robert. The Shape of Utopia. Chicago, 1970.
Erlich, Victor. Russian Formalism: History of Doctrine. New Haven: Yale U.P., 1981.
Ermolaev, Herman. Soviet Literary Theories 1927–1934. The Genesis of Socialist Realism. NY: Octagon, 1977.
Foldeak, Hans. Neure Tendenzen der sowjetischen Science Fiction. Slavistische Beiträge 88. Münich: Otto Sagner, 1975.
Folijewski, Zbigniew. Futurism and its Place in the Development of Modern Poetry. A Comparative Study and Anthology. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1980.
Glad, John. Extrapolations from Dystopia. A Critical Study of Soviet SF. Princeton: Kingston Press, 1982
Green, Michael A. “Kheraskov and the Christian Tragedy.” California Slavic Studies 9 (1976), p. 1–25.
Green, Roger L. Into Other Worlds: Space Flight in Fiction from Lucian to Lewis. NY: Arno Press, 1975.
Gunn, James. Alternate Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Gurevich, G. Karta strany fantazij. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1967.
Hillegas, Mark. The Future as Nightmare: H.G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians. So. Illinois U.P., 1974.
Hingley, Robert. Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution. NY: Knopf, 1981.
Katz, Michael R., Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction. Hanover & London: Univ. Press of New England, 1984.
Kaun, Alexander. Soviet Poets and Poetry. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1943.
Kern, Gary and Christopher Collins, eds. The Serapion Brothers: A Critical Anthology of Stories and Essays. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 2975.
Larin, Sergej. Literature krylatoj mechty. Moscow: 1961.
———. “Pafos sovremennoj fantastiki,: in Chernyj stolb, G. Malinina, ed. Moscow: 1973.
Le Guin, Ursula. The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. NY: Putnam, 1979.
Lem, Stanislaw. Fantastyka i Futurologia, 2 vols. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1973.
———. Microworlds. NY: H. B. Jovanovich, 1984.
Levitsky, Alexander. “V. F. Odoevskij’s The Year 4338: Eutopia or Dystopia?” in A. Mandelker, ed., The Supernatural in Slavic and Baltic Literature. Columbus: Slavica, 1988.
———. “Utopia Literature (c. 2850-present)” in V. Terras, ed. Handbook of Russian Literature (Yale, 1985), pp. 498–500.
———. “Gogol, N.V.,” Encyclopedia of Folklore & Literature. M.E. Brown & B.A. Rosenberg, eds. (Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 1998), 260–e.
———. “The Baroque Spirit of Czech Literature and the Legacy of Russian Arabesques,” Modern Czech Studies, Brown Slavic Contributions, vo. XI. pp. 100–127.
———. “In Search of Representational Means for Inner Worlds,” Modern Czech Studies, Brown Slavic Contributions, vo. XI. pp. 112–140.
Lewis, C. S. Of Other Worlds. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World 1967, c1966.
Maguire, Robert A. Red Virgin Soil. Soviet Literature in the 1920s. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1968; 2nd ed. Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1987.
Mandelker, Amy, ed. The Supernatural in Slavic and Baltic Literature. Columbus: Slavica, 1988.
Manuel, Frank E. ed. Utopians and Utopian Thought. Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.
Markov, Vladimir. Russian Futurism. A History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.
Mirsky, D. S. Contemporary Russian Literature, 1881–1925. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1926.
Moscowitz, Sam. Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern SF. Westport, CT: Hypersion Press, 1974, c1966.
Negley, Glenn. Utopian Literature: A Bibliography. Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.
Nicolson, Marjorie. Voyages to the Moon.
Oulanoff, Hongor. The Serapion Brothers. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
Patrick, George Z. Popular Poetry in Soviet Russia. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1929.
Phillips, Delbert D. Spook or Spoof? The Structure of the Supernatural in Russian Romantic Tales. Washington, DC: U. P. of America, 2982.
Poggioli, Renato. The Poets of Russia. 1890–1930. Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1960.
———. The Oaten Flute. Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Ideal. Cambridge: Harvard U.P., 1975.
Prédal, René. La Cinéma Fanastique. Paris, 1970.
Rullkötter, Bernd. Die wiessenschaftliche Phantastik der Sowietuion. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung der spekulativen Literaure in Ost und West. Frankfurt: H. Lang, 1974.
Rabkin, Eric. The Fantastic in Literature. Princeton; Princeton U.P., 1976.
Scholes, Robert. Structural Fabulation. Notre Dame-London: Osford U.P., 1977.
Struve, Gleb. Russian Literature under Lenin and Stalin. 1917–1953. Norman: U. of Oklahoma P., 1971.
Suvin, Darko. Metamorphoses of Science Ficion: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre. New Haven: Yal U.P., 1979.
———. Russian Science Fiction 1956–74: A Bibliography. Elizabethtown, NY: Dragon P., 1976.
; Suvin, Darko & Philmus, Robert, eds., H. G Wells and Modern Science Fiction. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U.P., c1977.
Thalmann, Marianne. The Romantic Fairy Tale. Seeds of Surrealism. Ann Arbor: U. Michigan, 1964.
Todorov, Tsvetan. The Fantastic: A Strutural Approach to a Literary Genre. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973.
Tuck, Donald H. The Encyclopedia of SF and Fantasy Through 1968. Chicago: Advent Publishers, 1974.
Tucker, Frank H. “Soviet Science Fiction: Recent Development & Outlook” in Russian Review #2, 1974, pp. 189–200.
Williams, Robert C. Artists in Revolution: Portraits of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1905–25. Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1977.
Yershov, Peter. Science Fiction and Utopian Fantasy in Soviet Literature. Research Program on the U.S.S.R., 62. NY: East European Fund, Inc., 1954.
Zavalishin, Viacheslav. Early Soviet Writers. NY: Praeger, 1958.
Zhiirmunsky, Viktor. “Symbolism’s Successors,” in The Noise of Change, ed. & tr. Stanley Rabinowitz. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 2985.
Collections for Further Reading:
An Anthology of Pre-revolutionary Russian Science Fiction, Leland Fetzer, ed. & tr. Ann Arbor: Artis, 1982.
An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics. James Bailey and Tatiana Ivanova, eds. & tr. Armonk, NY, London: M. E. Sharpe, 1998.
An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak. Bernard G. Guerney, et. & tr. NY: Random House, 1960.
An Anthology of Russian Romantic Prose. Carl R. Proffer. ed. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1979
The Ardis Anthology of Russian Futurism. Carl R. and Ellendea Proffer, eds. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1980.
The Ardis Anthology of Russian Romanticism. Christina Rydel, ed. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1984.
A Bilingual Collection of Russian Short Stories, Vol. 1. Maurice Friedbrg, ed. NY: Random House, 1964.
A Bilingual Collection of Russian Short Stories, Vol. 2. Maurice Friedbrg, ed. NY: Random House, 1965.
Fifty Years of Russian Prose. 2 vols. Krystyna Pomorska, ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.
The Heart of the Serpent. R. Prokofieva, tr. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d.
Journey Across Three Worlds. G. Evans, tr. Moscow: Mir, 1973.
Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology with Verse Translations. Bernard G. Guerney and Merrill Sparks, eds. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.
Everything but Love. A Shkarovsky, tr. Moscow: Mir, 1973.
The Molecular Cafe. Arkady and Boris Srugatsky, intro. Moscow: Mir, 1968.
More Soviet Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov, intro. NY: Collier Books, 1967.
New Soviet Science Fiction. Theodore Sturgeon, ed. NY: Collier Books, 1980.
“Novy Mir.” A Selection 1925–1967. Michael Glenny, ed. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1972.
Other Worlds, Other Seas: SF Stories from Socialist Countries. Darko Suvin, ed. NY: Random, 1970.
Path into the Unknown: The Best of Soviet SF. Judith Merril, intro. NY: Delacorte Press, 1981.
The Penguin Book of Russian Short Stories. David Richards, ed. and tr. NY: Penguin, 1981.
Russian Fairy Tales. A postscript “On Russian Fairy Tales” Roman Jakobson; Norbert Guterman, tr. NY: Random (Pantheon), 1975.
Russian Literature of the Twenties: An Anthology. Intro. by Robert A. Maguire, Carl R. Proffer, Ellendea Proffer, Ronald Mayer, Mary Ann Szporluk, eds. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1987.
Russian Literature Triquarterly. Translations, criticism, documents. See in particular: No. 1 (19710—Acmeism; No 2 (1972)—Prose of the Twenties; No. 4 (1972)—Symbolism; Nos. 12–13 (1975)—Futurism and Consructivism; No. 14 (1976)—Satire and Parody; No. 15 (1976)—Bulgakov.
Russian Poetry: The Modern Period. John Glad and Daniel Weissbort, eds. Iowa City: U. of Iowa P., 1978.
Russian Science Fiction. Mirra Ginsburg, tr. Chicago: Chicage, U.P., 1975
Russian Science Fiction 1964. Robert Magidoff, ed. NY: NYU Press, 1964.
Russian Science Fiction 1968. Robert Magidoff, ed. NY: NYU Press, 1968.
Russian Science Fiction 1969. Robert Magidoff, ed. NY: NYU Press, 1969.
Russian Stories: Bantam Dual-Language Book, Gleb Struve, ed & transl. NY: Bantham, 1961.
Soviet Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov, intro. NY: Collier Books, 1962.
Three Centuries of Russian Poetry. Nikolai Bannikov, comp. Billingual edition. Moscow: Progress, 1980.
The Ultimate Threshold: A Collection of the Finest in Soviet SF. Mirra Ginsburg, tr. NY: Penguin, 1978.
Utopian Literature. J. W. Johnson, ed. NY: Random, 1968.
Utopias. Catriona Kelly, ed. London: Penguin, 1999.
P.S. Since we were unable to offer in our volume any of the writings by Arkadi and Boris Stugatsky, all of which appeared afer Sputnik, we refer interested readers to he following works available in English: Definitely Maybe: A Manuscript < … > Far Rainbow: The 2nd Invasion from Mars; The Final Circleof Paradise; Hard to be a God; Monday Begins on Saturday; Roadside Picnic; The Tale of the Troika; Prisoners of Power; Noon: 22nd Century; The Snail on the Slope; The Ugly Swans.
Selected Western authors who have influenced the sense of the Fantastic in Russia before 1957:
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot (1950)
Bacon Francis. The New Atlantis (1627)
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward (1888)
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles (1946–50)
Böhme, Jacob. The Mysterium Magnum (1623); Collected Works (1730)
Byron, George G. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) and Don Juan (1818–24)
Cabet, Etienne. A Voyage to Icaria (1839–40)
Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood’s End (1953)
Dante Alighiere. The Divine Comedy (1308–21)
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol (1843) and his entrie oeuvre
Fourier, F. M. Charles. Le Nouveau Monde Industriel (1829–30) and his previous Garden-city utopias
Goethe, Johann Wolfg. The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774); Faust (Pt. 1, published 1898; Pt 2, published 1832)
Hegel George W. F. Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and other works
Herder, Johann G. von. Concerning the Origin of Speech (1772) and most of his other writings
Hoffmann, E.T.A. The Serapion Brothers (1819) and his entire prose oeuvre
Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey (8th or 7th century BC)
Huxley, Aldus. Brave New World (1932)
Lindsay, David. A Voyage to Arcturus (1923)
Lem, Stanislav. The Star Diaries (Dzienniki Gwiazdowe)(1957)
Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus (1588)
Marx, Karl. Das Kapital (1867)
Mercier, Louis S. The Year 2440 (L’An 2440, rêve s’il en fut jamai) (1771)
Meyrink, Gustav. The Golem (1914–5)
Milton, John. Paradise Lost (1667)
More, Thomas. Utopia (1516)
Münchhausen, KFH. Adventures … of Baron Münchhausen (1781)
Orwell, George. Animal Farm (1945); 1984 (1949)
Plato. The Republic (c. 380 BC)
Polidori, J. W. The Vampire (1819)
Pope, Alexander. An Essay on Man (1734)
Rabelais, François. Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534–52)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract (1762); Confessions (1782)
Schelling, F. W. J. System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) and other works
Scott, Walter (Sir). The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and most of his novels
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818)
Stoker, Bram. Dracula (1897)
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels (1726);
Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1869) and dozens of his other novels
Wells, Herbert G. The Time Machine (1895) and all his other major works
Additional inspiration, of course, came from the Classical Literature of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Bible, and the Scandinavian Epos.
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