Gennady Gor
Gennady Samoilovich Gor (January 15, 1907 in Verkhneudinsk, Siberia - January 6, 1981 in St. Petersburg) was a Soviet writer of science fiction. The son of a Jewish family exiled to Siberia, Gor went in 1923 to Petrograd, where he studied history and philology and survived the Siege of Leningrad.
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Gennady Gor
- Born
- 1907 · Ulan-Ude.
- Died
- 1981 · Saint Petersburg.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- writer · poet · art historian
- Fields
- speculative fiction
- Honours
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Languages
- Russian
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Gennady Samoilovich Gor (January 15, 1907 in Verkhneudinsk, Siberia - January 6, 1981 in St. Petersburg) was a Soviet writer of science fiction. The son of a Jewish family exiled to Siberia, Gor went in 1923 to Petrograd, where he studied history and philology and survived the Siege of Leningrad.
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Here he took up with representatives of the avant-garde literature of the time, including Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, the heads of the avant-garde group OBERIU. As early as 1925 he began to publish, in addition to popular science texts about the life and culture of northern Siberian tribes, his first experimental literature (first short story collection, 1933). From 1961 he also wrote science fiction and published in this field numerous novels, short stories and novellas. In the GDR he published some stories (which appeared in anthologies) and translated two novels. His poems appeared in 2007.
Gennady Gor is recorded as having received Order of the Badge of Honour.
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1907
Gennady Gor was born in 1907 at Ulan-Ude.
1981
Gennady Gor died in 1981 at Saint Petersburg.
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- Юноша с далёкой реки (1953)
- Университетская набережная (1959)
- Изваяние (1971)
- Корова (2000)
- Факультет чудаков (1931)
- Счастливая река (1934)
- В городке Студёном (1935)
- Дочь Семардана (1937)
- Ланжеро (1937)
- Неси меня, река (1938)
- Синее озеро (1939)
- Панков (1940)
- Дом на Моховой (1945)
- Остров будет открыт (1945)
- Последний экзамен (1948)
- Неизвестный ключ (1949)
- Ошибка профессора Орочева (1955)
- Однофамилец (1956)
- Докучливый собеседник (1961)
- Странник и время (1962)
- Кумби (1963, auch als Гости с Уазы)
- Скиталец Ларвеф (1964, auch als Уэра)
- Электронный Мельмот (1964)
- Мальчик (1965)
- Глиняный папуас (1966)
- Минотавр (1967)
- Имя (1968)
- Синее окно Феокрита (1968)
- Рисунок Дароткана (1972)
- Геометрический лес (1973)
- Деревянная квитанция (1974)
- Картины (1975)
- Чилиры (1975)
- Контора слепого (1976)
- Пять углов (1977)
- Человек без привычек (1980)
- Pankoff : Ein Kind der Arktis. Übersetzt von Alix Rohde-Liebenau. Ost und West-Reihe Bd. 3. Kantorowicz, Berlin 1948.
- Der elektronische Melmoth. kap-Heft, 1967 (gekürzt). Auch enthalten in:
- Index J-81 arbeitet für Mr. Faust. Volk und Welt, Berlin (DDR) 1971.
- Reinhard Fischer (Hrsg.): Das elektronische Glück. Phantastische Erzählungen aus der Sowjetunion. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin (DDR) 1982 u. ö.
- Horst Heidtmann (Hrsg.): Die letzte Tür. Sowjetische phantastische Erzählungen. dtv phantastica 1983
- Konstantin Pankow. Biographie. Seemann, Leipzig 1976.
- Die Statue. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin (DDR) 1978. Weitere Ausgabe mit einem Nachwort von Michael Nagula: Heyne SF&F #4207, 1985, ISBN 3-453-31181-7.
- Das Ohr. Phantastische Geschichten aus dem alten Leningrad. Übersetzt von Peter Urban. Friedenauer Presse, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-932109-51-1.
- Blockade. Gedichte. Russisch und Deutsch. Ed. Korrespondenzen, Wien 2007, ISBN 3-902113-52-9.
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