The Hour of the Bull, The Andromeda Nebula, The Heart of the Serpent (set of 3 books)

The Hour of the Bull «In "The Hour of the Bull" I presented a planet to which a group of Earthlings has resettled; they repeat the pioneering conquest of the American West, but on a much higher technical basis. The incredibly accelerated population growth and capitalist economy led to the depletion of the planet and mass mortality from hunger and disease. The state structure on the plundered planet, of course, must be oligarchic. To build a model of such a state, I continued into the future the trends of gangster fascist monopolism that are emerging now in America and some other countries trying to preserve the «freedom» of private entrepreneurship on a dense nationalist basis. It is clear that it is not science and technology of the distant future or strange civilizations of immeasurably distant worlds that became the goal of my novel. The people of future Earth, raised by centuries of existence in the highest, communist form of society, the contrast between them and the same Earthlings, but formed in the oppression and tyranny of the oligarchic structure of another planet, — this is the main goal and content of the book». — Ivan Efremov The Andromeda Nebula Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1908—1972) — a writer, doctor of biological sciences, and paleontologist, his work had a huge influence on all subsequent Soviet science fiction. Being not only a writer but also a man of science, he predicted many scientific discoveries in his books: the emergence of the exoskeleton suit and the electronic book, skin rejuvenation through laser therapy, the discovery of diamond deposits in Yakutia. «The Andromeda Nebula» (1957) — a classic novel of domestic science fiction and social utopia. The author narrates about a distant future: interstellar flights and unprecedented scientific achievements. Earth enters the world of the Great Ring — a community of intelligent civilizations that exchange cultural experiences and technologies. People speak a common language, racial features