About the book: 1958 / Ivan Antonovich Efremov's novel "The Andromeda Nebula" is certainly a turning point book in Soviet science fiction. The author has painted a utopian picture of a very distant communist future of humanity and the Earth, naturally the same as Efremov saw it. Interstellar flights, the ennobled nature of our planet, communication with another mind, people in whose psychology the idea of ​​serving a united communist humanity has been enshrined for thousands of years - this is a very very brief and gray summary of the content of the novel. In principle, the world created by Ivan Antonovich in “The Andromeda Nebula” is bright and very attractive. The destruction of the institution of family in this world is somewhat repulsive - but this is fully consistent with the concept of developed communism and is compensated by the purity and beauty of sexual relations in this world. “The Andromeda Nebula” was first published in the magazine “Technology of Youth” in 1957. Before you is the 1958 edition ., somewhat expanded and supplemented by the author. Based on the novel (or rather, part of the novel), a film of the same name was made in 1967. “The Andromeda Nebula” is the first book in the cycle, which is traditionally called the “Era of the Ring”, and which includes two more works by Efremov - the story “The Heart of the Snake” and the novel “The Hour” bull».