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epub | 9.28 MB | English | Isbn: 9780795348372 | Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, Roger Cockrell (Translator) | Year: 2011
About ebook : The Fatal Eggs
The chickens come home to roost in this "brilliantly strange" blend of science fiction and political satire by the author of The Master and Margarita ( The Guardian , UK).
As the new reality of post-Revolution Soviet life begins to settle in, a gifted but eccentric zoologist named Persikov invents a machine that revolutionizes the growth of living organisms by drastically increasing their size and reproductive rates.
Meanwhile, a mysterious plague has wiped out the entire poultry population of Russia, raising concerns about the government's ability to feed its people. Hoping to use Persikov's yet-untested invention to revive the decimated chicken population, the secret service confiscates Persikov's machine-with disastrous results.
Inspired by H. G. Wells's novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth , this science fiction novella delighted readers in 1925 Russia-and also disapproved of by certain critics who saw the tale as an anti-Soviet satire of the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of post-war leadership.
Category: Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction & Fantasy, World Fiction, Russian Fiction, High Tech and Hard Science Fiction, 20th Century Russian Fiction - Under Soviet-Rule, Science Fiction - High Tech
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