![]() ![]() There's also a fair amount of action in the episodes where the crew of the starship fight alien predators. Though the world described in the novel is intended to be ideal, there is an attempt to show a conflict and its resolution with a voluntary self-punishment of a scientist whose reckless experiment caused damage. There are several principal heroes, including a starship captain, two scientists, a historian, and an archeologist. Throughout the novel, the author's attention is focused on the social and cultural aspects of the society, and the struggle to conquer vast cosmic distances. The book portrays Yefremov's conception of a classic communist utopia set in a distant future. ![]() Yefremov's 1958 short story " The Heart of the Serpent" and 1968 novel The Bull's Hour, which is set in the same universe taking place some 200 years later, are considered as its sequels. It was made into a film in 1967, The Andromeda Nebula. The novel predicted some future inventions ( borazon, space probe, powered exoskeleton and ion thruster). It was translated into English as Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale by George Hanna. Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale ( Russian: "Туманность Андромеды", Tumannost' Andromedy – Andromeda Nebula) is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov, written in 1955–1956 and published in 1957. ![]()
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