The “Hour of the Ox” does not have a specific socio-psychological focus; the problems raised in it are of an extraterrestrial, planetary nature. Created four...

The adventure novel “The Razor's Edge” raises the problems of studying human capabilities, the reserves of his psyche, and the use of knowledge gained by tho...

In the center of the historical narrative is the famous Athenian hetaera Thais. An intelligent, educated, beautiful woman learned a lot in her young years, f...

This collection includes works by Ivan Efremov (1907–1972) and Ivan Gavrilov (1949), writing in the science fiction genre. Also presented is the story “Heart...

The Razor's Edge is one of the cult novels of its era. Italian adventurers in search of diamonds in Africa, a Soviet scientist exploring the hidden capabilit...

In this collection of works by I. Efremov, the reader will encounter those works of the writer in which the characters’ desire for a breakthrough beyond the ...

A small novel-prologue to “The Razor’s Edge”. The work was supposed to become part of the 3rd book of the novel “Beloved Beauty.”

“Callirhoe”, a story written in 1946, can be considered the first sketch for later works, including the novels “On the Edge of the Oecumene” and “Thais of At...

The romance The Land of Foam appeared in 1949; it is a story of the art and culture of ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, of the people inhabiting the worl...

Shock for readers of the 70s. was the publication (even in a version distorted by censorship) of I. A. Efremov’s novel “The Hour of the Bull.” This novel app...

Ivan Efremov can be called the most successful visionary of Soviet science fiction writers. He predicted the discovery of diamond deposits in Yakutia and mer...