I can't tell you how much I love this post. It's a window into an entirely different world, growing up in USSR coveting books that weren't easy to get, which was worlds away from my childhood in the west where books seemed to be everywhere, not just librarys, but on my parent's bookshelf where I glutted on Heinlein, Asimov, Wyndam, Clarke and other more modern sci fi writers, starting a life long love of scifi on the other side of the world to you.

What blows me away is that it never occured to me to think there were Russian science fiction writers, which is rather west-centric of me, but of course there would have been, and now I'm just annoyed that they never entered my orbit, so to speak. Are there any you'd recommend that I could hunt down or read about?

I lvoe that photo of your kid reading as well - it's such a fantastic photo of a child immersed in books. Raise a kid with them and they'll fall in love with them too. God help the new generations that are raised on screens. I think she'll probably go back to books one day - a lot of young adults are, in protest, in a kinda of vintage vogue longing for something they don't have kinda way. I know my son and his partner try their best to read even if the internet creeps in. Speaking of which, I should get off Hive and read a chapter of something.

Thanks for this fabulous, passionate, interesting insight into your world.