Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema

Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University. She is the author of "We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity" (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), winner of the Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize.

• INTRODUCTIONAnindita Banerjee: A Possible Strangeness: Reading Russian Science Fiction on the Page and the ScreenII. FROM UTOPIAN TRADITIONS TO REVOLUTIONARY DREAMSDarko Suvin: The Utopian Tradition of Russian Science FictionMark B Adams: Red Star: Another Look at Aleksandr BogdanovAnindita Banerjee: Generating PowerAsif A Siddiqi: Imagining the Cosmos: Utopians, Mystics, and the Popular Culture of Spaceflight in Revolutionary RussiaII. RUSSIA’S ROARING TWENTIESDominic Esler: Soviet Science Fiction of the 1920s: Explaining a Literary Genre in its Political and Social ContextEliot Borenstein: The Plural Self: Zamjatin’s We and the Logic of SynecdocheAndrew J Horton: Science Fiction of the Domestic: Iakov Protazanov’s AelitaYvonne Howell: Eugenics, Rejuvenation, and Bulgakov’s Journey into the Heart of Dogness III. FROM STALIN TO SPUTNIK AND BEYONDMichael G Smith: Stalinism and the Genesis of CosmonauticsLynn Barker and Robert Skotak: Klushantsev: Russia’s Wizard of FantastikaIstvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr: Towards the Last Fairy Tale: The Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys’ Science Fiction, 1963–72Stephen Dalton: Tarkovsky, Solaris, and StalkerIV. FUTURES AT THE END OF UTOPIAElana Gomel: Viktor Pelevin and Literary Postmodernism in Soviet RussiaVlad Strukov: The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov’s Night Watch Cinematic TrilogyAleksandr Chantsev: The Antiuopia Factory: The Dystopian Discourse in Russian Literature in the Mid-2000s

"It’s a comprehensive, and even exhaustive, read featuring a host of contributors and which, to varying extents, likely will appeal not just to those wanting a handle on the Sci-Fi/Cinema connection, but perhaps to Russophiles across-the-board, too." - Screentrade Magazine"This collection of scholarly articles related to the chronological history and development of Russian science fiction in film and literature is a valuable contribution to a little-studied genre." - International Journal of Russian Studies (2018)