About the book: 1977 / Russian science fiction has long-standing historical traditions. The works of famous science fiction writers of the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries included in the collection - Radishchev, Odoevsky, Kuchelbecker and others - were created on the basis of ideas about the world around us and the prospects for its development that existed at that time, especially progressive socio-political teachings and views, and inherited long-standing traditions reflected in ancient Russian literature, tales and legends. This very unique, bright and little-studied page in the history of Russian culture is of undoubted interest to the modern reader..