Day of Wrath. New Signal: Novels, Stories

Sever Gansovsky entered literature as a realist. But within the tight framework of the gloomy literary house-building that prevailed at the time (the 1950s), he lacked air. Many domestic science fiction writers experienced the same—Sergey Snegov, Arkady Strugatsky, Alexander Shalimov… And Gansovsky, in the early 1960s, turned away from the socialist realist canon and took a step into the unknown—writing his first science fiction story. Despite a simple, even clichéd plot—a last mammoth on earth is found in Siberia—the story attracted readers' attention with its vivid, not bookish, but human language and the brightness of the described details. And also with a tragic thread woven by the author into the fabric of the plot. All this—a lively language, bright, memorable images, and the writer's earnest concern for the problems of humanity and life in the world and the universe—would soon become Gansovsky's artistic style and elevate him to the ranks of leading science fiction writers in Russia. The book includes the best of what the author has written during his creative work in the field of domestic science fiction.