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When 'Boy Meets Tractor' became 'Scientist Meets Cybernetics': post-war scientific paradigms and the socialist realist plot.

In the 1976 novella One Billion Years Before the End of the World, the Soviet Union's science fiction writers A. and B. Strugatsky created a tale about contemporary Moscow scientists who are prevented by mysterious forces from completing their work. This analysis shows how the Strugatskys imbedded t...

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Published in:Neohelicon Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 391 - 400
Main Author: Howell, Yvonne
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2014
Subjects:
Realist fiction
Cybernetics
Socialists
Literary form
International relations
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