
“We plan to put out a major‐series.”Īn introduction to this first volume was written by Theodore Sturgeon, the American science‐fiction authority. Halsey, publisher of Macmillan's general‐books division, said the other day. “We have the right of first look at ‘all Soviet science fiction over This period,” William D. In 1975 Macmillan signed a 10‐year agreement with the Soviet Copyright Agency. Macmillan will publish its first volume of Soviet science fiction-two novellas by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, entitled “Roadside Picnic” and “Tale of the Troika.” This spring American science‐tiction readers will be able to look over into this future and see how it works. It is also a fact that science fiction, though not invented in the Soviet Union has, literary tradition there going back to the 1920's.

It is undoubtedly true that creative visions of new and different planets offer freedom of comment not Always available in socialist realism. EARTHLINGS in the Soviet Union are turning science fiction into one of the liveliest categories of Soviet literature today.
