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How the machine learned the Alphabet
26 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1985
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Boris Zubkov
12 books1 followerBoris Vasilievich Zubkov (1923 - 1986) was a Soviet science fiction writer. He was born in 1923 in Moscow. He graduated from the institute with a degree in electrical engineering, worked as a journalist, head of the technology department in the editorial office of the popular science magazine "Knowledge is Power". In addition to science fiction, he also wrote science fiction and popular science literature on the themes of invention, innovation, technical creativity, metalworking and agriculture.
Boris Zubkov created the bulk of his works in the science fiction genre in the 1960s in collaboration with Yevgeny Muslin. Their numerous pamphlet stories, exposing the use of science, inventions and discoveries in bourgeois society, very quickly brought them to the leaders of Soviet satirical fiction. Outwardly, the themes of these stories are very diverse, but in essence, in each of them, the same question was asked: what does technological progress bring to mankind - great happiness or great misfortunes? The story "A fragile, fragile, fragile world ..." stands out in the work of the co-authors, which describes a consumer society in the near future, in which it is forbidden to make durable, reliable things - which makes the inhabitants of this peculiar dystopia buy at an ever-increasing pace.
Almost all the joint work of Zubkov and Muslin was included in the collection "The Pretender Stump".
After Muslin's emigration, Boris Zubkov wrote very little. In regional periodicals, three stories were published in co-authorship with Anatoly Ershov, as well as several stories. The last work of the writer was the science fiction story "Dandelion on Planet Green", published posthumously.
Boris Zubkov created the bulk of his works in the science fiction genre in the 1960s in collaboration with Yevgeny Muslin. Their numerous pamphlet stories, exposing the use of science, inventions and discoveries in bourgeois society, very quickly brought them to the leaders of Soviet satirical fiction. Outwardly, the themes of these stories are very diverse, but in essence, in each of them, the same question was asked: what does technological progress bring to mankind - great happiness or great misfortunes? The story "A fragile, fragile, fragile world ..." stands out in the work of the co-authors, which describes a consumer society in the near future, in which it is forbidden to make durable, reliable things - which makes the inhabitants of this peculiar dystopia buy at an ever-increasing pace.
Almost all the joint work of Zubkov and Muslin was included in the collection "The Pretender Stump".
After Muslin's emigration, Boris Zubkov wrote very little. In regional periodicals, three stories were published in co-authorship with Anatoly Ershov, as well as several stories. The last work of the writer was the science fiction story "Dandelion on Planet Green", published posthumously.
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