7 best stories and 29 illustrations from the art community "USSR-2061". You can download and read, you can order a paper copy.

In two years we have held two illustrator competitions, and recently a short story competition. There will be more later, but for now here is a collection of the best works, artistic and literary. The collection includes 29 illustrations and 7 stories by various authors. Each of them described the future a little differently - and that's good. It is especially pleasant that through the crusty crust of retrofuturism, almost for the first time in recent years, something new and original is sprouting.

In stories, as a rule, there is no longer that artless admiration for the possibilities of science and technology. There is no blind faith in the deus ex machina that characterized the “golden age of SF.” But there is an ineradicable thirst for the future and a passionate faith in man. The picture of the world does not look like a frozen bas-relief of the next City of the Sun. The world of the future is a continuous process of movement, and the fact that the heroes of some stories complete its picture right on the go makes it only more attractive. They achieve their goals by no means easily, and certainly not by accident. Their victories reveal hard and dangerous work. And it is right. Because no one will give us the future. Will not send as humanitarian aid. And he doesn’t organize it after winning the tender.

We make the future ourselves.