Red Star (novel)
Red Star is a 1908 science fiction novel about a communist society on Mars. The first edition was published in St. Petersburg in 1908, before eventually being republished in Moscow and Petrograd in 1918, and then again in Moscow in 1922. An English translation by Charles Rougle was published in 1984. The novel tells the story of Leonid, a Russian scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars.
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Red Star is a 1908 science fiction novel about a communist society on Mars. The first edition was published in St. Petersburg in 1908, before eventually being republished in Moscow and Petrograd in 1918, and then again in Moscow in 1922. An English translation by Charles Rougle was published in 1984. The novel tells the story of Leonid, a Russian scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars to learn and experience their socialist system and to teach them of his own world. In the process, he becomes enamored of the people and technological efficiency that he encounters in this new world. Eventually, the unfamiliarity of Mars and the stress of his mission exhaust Leonid and he becomes bedridden with severe auditory and visual hallucinations. The book is set in early Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and additionally on a fictional socialist society onMars. The narrator and protagonist of the story, Leonid is a Bolshevik revolutionary and mathematician living in St. Petersburg. He is introduced to all of the other Martian travelers, such as Netti and Sterni, who he remarks as bearing very few individually distinguishable features, even when comparing opposite genders. Leonid soon learns that there is no focus on or appreciation for the individual whatsoever in this Martian society, but rather admiration arises for collective effort and decides to leave.
Part 1 concludes with their arrival on the planet of Mars. At this point in the novel, Bogdanov details some of the aspects of the socialist Martian society as seen through Leonid’s eyes. Part 2 comes to a close with Leonid’s close relationship with Netti, as well as his close friendship with Menni and other Martians. The story ends with the end of the novel with the conclusion of Part 1 and the beginning of the Part 2 of the Red Star series. The second part of the series, Red Star: The Red Planet, is scheduled to be released on September 14, 2013. The third and final part of Red Star is scheduled for September 25, 2013, and will be released in the United States on September 26, 2013 and September 27, 2013 in the U.S. and September 28, 2014 in the UK. The fourth and final section of the trilogy, Redstar: The Green Planet, will be published on September 30, 2014, and September 29, 2015 in the USA and Europe. It will also be published in Europe and the UK on September 29 and 30, 2015. The final chapter is entitled “The Red Planet: The Third Part of The Red Star Series” and is published by Simon & Schuster in the US and Europe on September 28 and 29, 2016, and in Europe on October 1, 2017. The last chapter of the book is titled “The Green Planet” and it is published on October 8, 2017, and is released by Simon and Schuster.
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