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| − | '''Grigoriev, Vladimir. "The Horn of Plenty."''' 1964/translation 1969. ''The Ultimate Threshold: A Collection of the Finest in Soviet Science Fiction''. Mirra Ginsburg, editor and translator. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Harmonsworth, UK/NYC: Penguin 1978.[http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-ultimate-threshold--a-collection-of-the/7x_c5rvGPaQ/][http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?49028] For other reprints, see Internet | + | '''Grigoriev, Vladimir. "The Horn of Plenty."''' 1964/translation 1969. ''The Ultimate Threshold: A Collection of the Finest in Soviet Science Fiction''. Mirra Ginsburg, editor and translator. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Harmonsworth, UK/NYC: Penguin 1978.[http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-ultimate-threshold--a-collection-of-the/7x_c5rvGPaQ/][http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?49028] For other reprints, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry for the story title in English.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?97364] |
John J. Pierce gives as a relevant brief summary "[...] a Soviet bureaucrat, unimpressed with an invention that produces consumer goods from scrap, manages to wreck the machine, killing himself and the inventor in the bargain" ("Up From Stalinism" section of ms., p. 13). | John J. Pierce gives as a relevant brief summary "[...] a Soviet bureaucrat, unimpressed with an invention that produces consumer goods from scrap, manages to wreck the machine, killing himself and the inventor in the bargain" ("Up From Stalinism" section of ms., p. 13). | ||
Latest revision as of 23:38, 18 January 2021
Grigoriev, Vladimir. "The Horn of Plenty." 1964/translation 1969. The Ultimate Threshold: A Collection of the Finest in Soviet Science Fiction. Mirra Ginsburg, editor and translator. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Harmonsworth, UK/NYC: Penguin 1978.[1][2] For other reprints, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry for the story title in English.[3]
John J. Pierce gives as a relevant brief summary "[...] a Soviet bureaucrat, unimpressed with an invention that produces consumer goods from scrap, manages to wreck the machine, killing himself and the inventor in the bargain" ("Up From Stalinism" section of ms., p. 13).
Cf. and contrast the "grails" in P. J. Farmer's Riverworld series,[4] and their descendants.
RDE, with thanks to JJP, 6July20
