M. Zobern has sent me an e-mail naming four more Russian s-f stories; three novels and a short work. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Священная книга оборотня) and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (Проблема верволка в средней полосе) by Victor Pelevin; The Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце) by Mikhail Bulgakov; and Epic Predator (Эпос хищника) by Leonid Kaganov.
But the first three of these have been published in English: Pelevin’s The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (translated by Andrew Bromfield, Viking, September 2009, 335 pages) and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (in Pelevin’s collection A Werewolf in Central Russia and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Bromfield, New Directions Publishing Corp., November 1998, 213 pages); and Bulgakov’s The Heart of a Dog (translated, with an Introduction, by Michael Glenny, Harcourt, Brace & World/A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, June 1968, ix + 146 p.).
Epic Predator by Leonid Kaganov has not been. But is it published separately? Zobern says, “Not novel, but very furry.” Is it a short story or a novelette? More information is needed.
M. Zobern has sent me an e-mail naming four more Russian s-f stories; three novels and a short work. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Священная книга оборотня) and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (Проблема верволка в средней полосе) by Victor Pelevin; The Heart of a Dog (Собачье сердце) by Mikhail Bulgakov; and Epic Predator (Эпос хищника) by Leonid Kaganov.
But the first three of these have been published in English: Pelevin’s The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (translated by Andrew Bromfield, Viking, September 2009, 335 pages) and A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia (in Pelevin’s collection A Werewolf in Central Russia and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Bromfield, New Directions Publishing Corp., November 1998, 213 pages); and Bulgakov’s The Heart of a Dog (translated, with an Introduction, by Michael Glenny, Harcourt, Brace & World/A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, June 1968, ix + 146 p.).
Epic Predator by Leonid Kaganov has not been. But is it published separately? Zobern says, “Not novel, but very furry.” Is it a short story or a novelette? More information is needed.
Fred Patten