Re: Hello to you all!

----- 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". 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?...

>                                              Andreas
Yitzik
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