Re: Hello to you all!

Y.Penzev wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:38 PM
>Subject: Re: Hello to you all!
>
>
> > Y Penzev wrote:
> > >Shalom, Jan!
> > >Dobro pozhalovatj!
> > >
> > > > (skipped)
> > > >
> > > > I like science-fiction (a lot!), but my own languages are rather
> > >"earthy"
> > > > and belong to the "What if-category".
> > >
> > >Ah! A kindred spirit! That's what I like too!
> >
> > I somewhy suspect that there's pretty alot of us SF-likers on the
>Conlang
> > list.
> >
> > Since you're form the former USSR, perhaps you like the Strugatsky (or
> > however that should be anglicized) brothers' work? I've just read a
>couple
> > of their books, and rather likes the stuff. Post-revolution Russian
> > litterature is for some reason almost impossible to find in Swedish
> > libraries, but someone evidently bought a load of Strugatsky books for
>my
> > local library in the mid-80s.
>
>Oh! When I said "I like it" I meant "I like naturalistic what-if kind of
>conlangs", and not particularly SF.
>
>Still, I really like SF too, and the Strugatsky brothers are among top
>10... Especially "The Beetle in the Ant-Hill".
Read that one last weekend! Like it alot, too.

>The Russian ("Soviet") SF is
>abundant! And not so fierce and gloomy as the Western one... Have you heard
>these names: Kir Bulychev, Ivan Yefremov, Vassily Golovachev, Sergey
>Pavlov?...
Njet. As said, post-1917 Russian litterature is hard to find in Sweden. A
summary of the history of SF will usually mention few or no non-Western
authors.

                                            Andreas


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