Ivan Efremov: 4 books

The Heart of the Serpent (originally in Latin:Cor Serpentis, Russian: Сердце Змеи) is a 1958 science fiction short story by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov (Efremov). The crew of the spaceship Tellur encounters an alien ship in deep space. Speculation ensues about...

Andromeda is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Efremov, written and published in 1957. The novel was made into a film in 1967. Boris Strugatsky wrote: Efremov was an icebreaker of a man. He has broken the seemingly unbreakable ice of the "short...

Moonlight Cliff is a collection of six short stories by the popular Russian writer Ivan Efremov. *Moonlight Cliff: Georgy Balabin is an archaeologist in search of mammoth remains in the heart of Siberia. In a battle for survival, struggling through deep snow, avalanches, across glaciers, and...

The romance Oecumene, A tale of Greece and Egypt, originally appeared in 1949; it is a story of the art and culture of these ancient worlds, and of the people who inhabited it; the varying landscape of Africa is shown in all its awe-inspiring grandeur. A young Hellene, Pandion, is enslaved...