Прощай, мой ангел

by Maria Galina, Мария Галина, Николай Колесниченко (illustrator)

Это – Земля.
Земля, в чем-то – наша, привычная, а в чем-то – ИНАЯ. Земля, где рядом с людьми веками, тысячелетиями живут представители ДРУГОЙ ветви развития человеческого разума. «Нелюди» – и «сверхлюди». Превосходящие людей...
Управляющие человечеством...
Их можно убить. Их ХОТЯТ убить.
Люди уже нашли смертельный для «сверхлюдей» биовирус – и вот-вот запустят его в атмосферу.
Вот только – КАКИМ станет мир, в котором человечество обретет наконец свободу?..

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Прощай, мой ангел
Экспедиция
Автор о себе

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Maria Galina (Russian: Мария Галина) is one of the most interesting authors among those who made their names in the turbulent 1990s. She writes both literary and science fiction (with ten SF books to her credit). She is also a noted poet, a thoughtful critic, and translator of English and American science fiction, in all of which she excels. She is a winner of many important prizes for her prose and poetry and her critical essays.

A graduate from Odessa University majoring in sea biology she took part in several sea expeditions but in 1995 she gave up biology and took up writing professionally.

Apart from numerous Russian publications she has three books published in Poland and her work has been included in various anthologies of Russian writing abroad (Russian Women Poets: Modern Poetry in Translation, UCL, London, 2002; and Amerika. Russian Writers View the United States, Dalkey Archive Press).

Her literary fiction contains a strong element of magic realism while gender issues have always been the focus of her attention.

As a poet she was awarded by some of the most prestigious Russian poetry awards - The Moscow Count (for the best poetry book published in Moscow) and Anthology (for the highest achievements in the modern Russian Poetry)

Reviews

[Kama · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good read while it lasted, but since I'm writing it now several weeks after reading it... All I can say "nothing stayed with me".

[Jakub · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly boring and unoriginal. The extra star is for the biter ending of the second novel.