Many years ago, I checked out a thin, tan-colored book of short
stories authored by who I thought was Leo Tolstoy. The short stories
turned out to be bizarre science fiction.
The only things I know about this book:
-One story was about a lake of mercury
-One story was about a man who believed that if the sun hit the right
kind of rock in the right way, it would preserve an image of
everything around it; at the end of the story, he sees an image of
prehistoric plants and animals on the rock.
Please identify this book and provide a link to the text of it online.
If it is not online, please find it on alibris/etc.
Thank you!
seamusabshere
The question can be withdrawn for several reasons,
and I do not know which was was operational in this case.
In the case you did not run out of patience
and are willing to cooperate in the search
I would like you to look at the page below.
It is tan and has sickle&hammer on the cover.
Do you remember anything on the cover?
It was published in 2001 which would fit roughly into
your range. It is called : Soviet Short Stories.
The cover is shown here:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2WXJH0FS2N&isbn=0898756529&itm=1
I have identified several other books of the short stories
which could fit, and am willing to continue the search
(and you wil not be expected to read all 8 volumes of his
Collected Works in Russian :-) )
So - if you are interested to continue, please
indicate that, preferably in question clarification.
hedgie
What is your best guess of the year in which you encountered this
book? Any estimate would help.
I encountered this book sometime between 1995 and 2000.
Rather than Leo Tolstoy, I believe the author may be Alexei Tolstoy,
who wrote science fiction and horror stories, among other things:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/atolstoi.htm
Alternate spellings: Aleksei/Alexsei/Alexei/Alexi/Alexis and
Tolstoy/Tolstoi
Alexei Tolstoy's son, Nikolai Tolstoy, also writes science fiction.
I hope another Researcher will be able to find the book you want. Short Story Books::
Some important short story writers are. Mark Twain. Leo Tolstoy. P.G. Wodehouse. R.K.Narayan Romantic Science Fiction Books Romantic Short Stories
http://www.mapsofworld.com/referrals/books/fiction-books/story-books/short-story-books.htmlHOME |
Readin', Russians, and romance: so Tolstoy's not Russia's best ::
And what the stuff that isn't Tolstoy is, is a lot of pulp fiction, quickie translations of formula romance and science fiction, short-lived computer books See Genre fiction is a term for fictional works (novels, short stories)
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Readin',+Russians,+and+romance:+so+Tolstoy's+not+Russia's+best-a020521299HOME |
I do not like to be critical of Google's fine team of researchers, but
in my opinion this is a plainly inadequate answer.
It looks to me as if hedgie-ga has not offered anything that resembles
an actual answer. He took the information first posted by pinkfreud-ga
as a comment, and added nothing particularly useful to it.
I do not think a researcher should post an answer to a question that
asks "What is this book of science fiction short stories" by merely
identifying the book's possible author (with information that he got
from another researcher, in this case). At the very least, the
questioner could have been asked "If I can suggest who MIGHT have
written your book, shall I post that as an answer?"
Hedgie, I suggest that you withdraw your answer unless you can come up
with more than this.
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Science fiction short stories by "Tolstoy"