Forthcoming from V–A–C Press is Tales of Riots and Truffles, an anthology of little-known science fiction and fantasy by Russian authors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this podcast, we speak with the translator and writer Vitaly Timofeevich Babenko, who compiled the book, about the peculiarities of science fiction as a genre, the specifics of its language, and the bold predictions and discoveries of Russian writers.
Especially for Sreda online magazine, the journalist and lead singer of the band Kobyla i Trupoglazye Zhaby Anton Vagin has voiced several excerpts from the anthology.