Today I am of the opinion that my first science-fiction novels lack any value (despite the fact that I gained world acclaim through their numerous editions). I wrote them – this was the case with Astronauci (The Astronauts) published in 1951 – driven by motives that I still understand today, however the world presented in them radically differs from all experiences of my life.<\/p>\n
Everything is so smooth and balanced; among the heroes we have a positive Russian character and a sweet Chinese; naivet\u00e9 is present on all pages of this book. The hope that in the year 2000 the world would be wonderful is indeed very childish…. As a very young man to a certain extent I must have resembled a sponge that sucked in postulates proposed by socialism. I was concentrated on making the world more and more positive. In a certain sense I fooled myself, since my feelings and hopes were genuine. Today I am a bit disgusted by this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I am of the opinion that my first science-fiction novels lack any value (despite the fact that I gained world acclaim through their numerous editions). I wrote them – this was the case with Astronauci (The Astronauts) published in 1951 – driven by motives that I still understand today, however the world presented in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronauts-the","category-books","category-novels"],"yoast_head":"\n