TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Bulgakov, Mikhail
AU  - Cockrell, Roger
TI  - The fatal eggs
SN  - 9781847493712
AV  - PG3476.B78 R5813
CY  - Surrey, England : Alma Classics 2014.
KW  - Bulgakov, Mikhail
KW  - Russia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Russian fiction
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - Literary classics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 142)
N2  - Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country’s poultry stocks, Persikov’s discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand…

Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin’s rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge
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