Abstract
When the Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lena was asked to name his favorite writer, he said: Dostoyevsky; while among Dostoyevsky's favorite authors one finds romantic writers such as Hoffmann and Hugo. And it is not by chance that in works on Dostoyevsky special attention is given to elements of the fantastic in his novels, novels that we rightly regard as psychological and philosophical. Other such instances come to mind. Ray Bradbury, author of well-known science fiction stories, is also a writer of psychological stories. Karel Capek and Alexei Tolstoy too have produced work in both of these genres. And now we come to something quite new — a science fiction story by Tendriakov, whom we have grown accustomed to regarding as the author of penetrating social scenes based on material from everyday life, some of which are virtually ethnographic. V. Shefner, who is a psychological writer and lyric poet, wrote a science fiction story called The Girl at the Precipice [Devushka u obryva]. Even so re...
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